Museum Branding - 2nd Edition by Margot Wallace (Paperback)

About the Book

Branding a museum helps it stand out from the crowd by giving it an image and personality with which visitors and supporters can identify, increasing their emotional attachment and encouraging them to return. In Museum Branding, Wallace offers clear, practical advice on how to...

Book Synopsis

In today's busy world, museums compete for visitors not only with other museums, but also with a worthy selection of cultural institutions from performing arts to libraries. Add to these magnets a slew of enticing leisure activities, from theme parks to jogging trails. Given a weekend afternoon with a little free time to spare, a prospective visitor has a tempting selection of destinations to choose from.

Branding a museum helps it stand out from the crowd by giving it an image and personality with which visitors and supporters can identify, increasing their emotional attachment and encouraging them to return. In Museum Branding, Wallace offers clear, practical advice on how to brand a museum department by department, step by step. By highlighting case studies from museums of every type and size, she emphasizes that brains, not budget, create a successful branding effort.

This new edition is heavily updated to reflect digital branding from start-to-finish and features three entirely new chapters:

Public Relations and Social MediaTheaters, Conservation Labs, and Visible Storage SpacesDatabases

Review Quotes

"As an academic museum professional with a small staff, I understand all too well the need to wear numerous hats. From program administrator to K-12 educator, many of us in the field can also add marketing and web design to a growing list of job responsibilities. Professor Wallace's publication, Museum Branding: How to Create and Maintain Image, Loyalty, and Support, does a masterful job outlining the nuts and bolts of museum branding. Building and maintaining a positive brand identity in our communities is essential to the success of any museum's educational mission." --Craig Hadley, Director/Curator of Exhibitions and University Collections, DePauw University

"As an academic museum professional with a small staff, I understand all too well the need to wear numerous hats. From program administrator to K-12 educator, many of us in the field can also add marketing and web design to a growing list of job responsibilities. Professor Wallace's publication, Museum Branding: How to Create and Maintain Image, Loyalty, and Support, does a masterful job outlining the nuts and bolts of museum branding. Building and maintaining a positive brand identity in our communities is essential to the success of any museum's educational mission."

About the Author

Margot Wallace is an associate professor of marketing communication at Columbia College of Chicago who teaches courses in branding, marketing and writing, and has researched museum marketing for twelve years.