Creativity in Museum Practice

Linda Norris is an independent museum professional who focuses on shaping compelling narratives, improving professional practice and listening to communities. She has worked on interpretive projects and developed workshops for museums and cultural organisations in the United States, Canada, and Europe including the American Association for State and Local History, Connecticut Humanities, the Berkshire Museum and the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center. She was a Fulbright Scholar in 2009 and 2010 to Ukraine. Linda blogs at the Uncataloged Museum and is a co-founder of the The Pickle Project. Rainey Tisdale is an independent curator, based in Boston, who specialises in urban and local history. She spent most of the last decade working for the Bostonian Society, Boston's city historical society. In 2010 she was a Fulbright Scholar in Helsinki, Finland, and in 2011 she was a fellow at Brown University's John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities. She teaches Material Culture in the Museum Studies Graduate Program at Tufts University and blogs at CityStories.

Chapter 1 Introduction Why Creativity Matters in Museum Work; Chapter 1a Your Creative Practice, Daisaku Ikeda; Chapter 2 Building Creative Cultures, Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Chapter 3 Tools for Creative Cultures, Steve Jobs; Chapter 4 A Field-wide Creative Infrastructure, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry; Chapter 5 Creative Museums, Creative Communities, Paulo Coelho; Chapter 6 Afterword Our Creative Process; Chapter 7 Pocket Guide to Creativity in Museum Practice; Chapter 8 The Get Going Game;