Acronyms and Abbreviations
FBI
What is the Federal Bureau of Investigation?
A permanent, unique number applied to each acquisition
What is an accession number?
US law that governs the standards for accessible design used in museums
What is the ADA - Americans with Disabilities Act?
The author of this book
Who is Steven Lubar?
More people attend sporting events than museums
FALSE: More people visited an art museum, science center, historic house or site, zoo, or aquarium in 2018 than attended a professional sporting event.
AAM
What is the American Alliance of Museums?
Entry in a museum database
What is a cataloging record?
Nickname for an object label that includes title, artist/maker, materials, date
What is tombstone?
The university where Professor Jenks founded his museum
What is Brown University?
Museums spend $500 million each year on education activities
FALSE: Museums spend over $2 billion each year on education activities; the typical museum devotes three-quarters of its education budget to K-12 students.
ICOM
What is the International Council of Museums?
Official legal paperwork describing objects given and transfers clear title
What is a deed of gift?
Three types of text designed for an exhibition
What are title and credits, didactic text, and labels?
Collecting method used most often by Prof. Jenks
What is field collecting?
Most Americans believe museums are trustworthy and are educational and economic assets to their communities
TRUE: The American public regards museums as highly trustworthy—ranking second only to friends and family.
97% of Americans believe that museums are educational assets for their communities.
89% believe that museums contribute important economic benefits to their community.
NAGPRA
What is the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act?
Term used to describe the legal act of removing objects from a collection.
What is deaccession?
Software most often used in designing exhibitions or listed in current museum job ads
What is sketchup?
The year the Jenks Museum closed permanently
What is 1915?
Museums take no role in saving species
FALSE: In 2020, accredited zoos and aquariums (museums with living collections) spent $209 million on field conservation projects in 115 countries
UNESCO
What is the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization?
Important document outlining the care and use of collections
What is a collections management policy?
Three types of security methods used in exhibition design.
What are barriers, glass, signage, and furniture?
The contemporary artist who helped recreate The Jenks Society for Lost Museums
Who is Mark Dion?
Museums improve public health
True: Living in a community with cultural resources confers a five year advantage in cognitive age: museums and similar cultural organizations provide the biggest boost to cognitive health