The Earlham Museum Studies program offers the students the combination of course work and internship experience to develop their abilities to work in this changing context and to provide leadership for the future.
Museums have a distinctive role in society.
To respond to this shift, teams have created to link the expertise of curators, marketing and advertizing, finance and education staff in the development of programs and exhibits that will serve their diverse audiences. Working in teams with diverse backgrounds and training is thus an important skill. New ways of planning and working with boards of directors and volunteers are required to assure the viability of many of these institutions. Even those with substantial endowment or public budgets have confronted these changes. At Conner Prairie the recent development of McKinnen s Trading Post and Lenape Indian Camp and the Rural History Project illustrate this approach to management.