House Museums, Who's Minding the Site?: A Study of the Attributes of Professional Historic Site Directors

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Initially, over two-hundred historic house museum sites were identified in Philadelphia, southern New Jersey, and Delaware.The list was narrowed in order to focus on those directors who were believed to have demonstrated a certain level of focus and leadership at their sites in the past.They were chosen in order to find out what that leadership really meant, and what might have influenced it.All of the participants generously shared their time and insights concerning their individual properties, resulting in both comparative data and anecdotal commentary that is presented and analyzed as a result of this study.In fact, because the focus of this study is the impact of professional training on issues of management and leadership, the properties were specifically chosen based on the initial assumption that each employed a staff person who could be identified as a professional director.In this context, the phrase "professional director" refers to the one paid fiall-time employee, with prim

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