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ARKANSAS RESEARCH : Museum Needs Assessment

In 2004, Mid-America Arts Alliance and the Arkansas Arts Council received a grant from the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation to fund research on the training and professional development needs of small museums in Arkansas.

This research included surveying all identified Arkansas museums and galleries, conducting in-depth telephone interviews and on-site visits to a selected number of these museums and galleries, and completing telephone interviews with Arkansas museum service organizations.

The final research report is available by clicking the links below. We deeply appreciate everyone’s willingness to share their experience and knowledge of their institution and community. It is our hope that this report will provide readers with a better understanding of both the unique character and undeniable assets of these organizations and the challenges they face in serving their communities.

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MISSOURI RESEARCH : Museum Needs Assessment
Research: Museum Needs Assessment

In October 2006, Mid-America Arts Alliance received a National Leadership grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to support a comprehensive training needs assessment of museums in Missouri.

Mid-America will work in formal partnership with the Missouri Arts Council and informal partnership with a number of state museum service organizations to discover the capabilities, needs, and preferences of museums across the state. The research will consist of the distribution of a written survey to all museums within the state, interviews with museum service providers, field visits and telephone interviews with museums that captures the unique virtues of its representative museum constituency, and written analysis of collected data.

Research findings will be distributed widely throughout the state, among national museum service entities, and among museum industry allies to ensure maximum utility of the research.

Research began in fall of 2006 and will conclude in July 2008.

NEBRASKA RESEARCH: Museum Needs Assessment

In the fall of 2003 and spring of 2004, Mid-America Arts Alliance, in partnership with the Nebraska Arts Council, conducted extensive research on the training needs of small museums and libraries in Nebraska. This research was comprised of telephone interviews and on-site visits with six Nebraska museum and library service organizations, 168 completed surveys from museums and libraries across Nebraska, and telephone and on-site visits with more than ten museums and libraries.

The final research report is available by clicking the links below. We deeply appreciate everyone’s willingness to share their experience and knowledge of their institution and community. It is our hope that this report will provide readers with a better understanding of both the unique character and undeniable assets of these organizations and the challenges they face in serving their communities.

PDF 4.0MB Training Needs Assessment for Nebraska Museums & Libraries

PDF 510KB Training Needs Assessment for Nebraska Museums & Libraries (Appendices)

TEXAS RESEARCH: Museum Needs Assessment

In 2000 and 2001, Mid-America Arts Alliance, in partnership with the Texas Association of Museums and with funding provided by the Texas Commission on the Arts, conducted extensive research on the training needs of small museums in Texas.

This research was comprised of telephone interviews with seven museum service providers, survey responses from 203 museums and telephone and on-site visits with more than twenty museums across Texas.

The final research report is available by clicking the links below. We deeply appreciate everyone’s willingness to share their experience and knowledge of their institution and community.

It is our hope that this report will provide readers with a better understanding of both the unique character and undeniable assets of these organizations and the challenges they face in serving their communities.

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Click here to view the full report.*

Click here to view the appendices.*

*Note: these are large PDF files and may take several minutes to load.