FALL 2012
Navigating a Changing Economy:
The New Normal for Museums?

• From the President, Douglas Simpson
• From the Editor, Gretchen Jennings
• Exhibits Newsline, by Beth Redmond-Jones
• Sitting in Judgment: Notes from the 24th Annual Excellence in Exhibitions Session at AAM, by Willard Whitson
• Flux or the New Normal? Museum Exhibitions in the Post-Recession Reality, by Daniel Spock
• Show Me the Money: Funding Exhibition Development in Changing Times, by Marilyn Hoyt
• Baking the Cake Differently—An Australian Perspective on Museum Funding and Business Models, by Regan Forrest and Sue Hodges
• Measuring the Rule of Thumb: How Much Do Exhibitions Cost? by Sarah Bartlett and Christopher Lee
• Hackerspaces, Fab Labs, and the Democratization of Exhibits, by Tisha Carper Long
• The Event-Driven Museum? Reconsidering the Role of Exhibitions in Tough Economic Times, by Nina Simon
• Making Invisible: Slavery Today Visible, by Dina Bailey, Jamie Glavic and Leslie Mooney
• Creative Adaptation: Exhibitions in the Downturn, by Regina Faden, Ph.D
• Exhibitionist Survey—a Study for the National Association for Museum Exhibition
• 2013 Excellence in Exhibition Label Writing Competition
• Nuts and Bolts: Embezzlement: Is it Our Dirty Little Secret? by Max A. van Balgooy
• Exhibition Studies: A Model Museum Internship Program in New Mexico, by Miriam Roberts
• Exhibition Critiques: The Pritzker Family Children's Zoo by Rachel Hellenga with Cricket Brooks; Katherine Johnson; Chad Tyler
• Book Review: Nonprofit Finance for Hard Times, by Susan U. Raymond, Ph.D., reviewed by John W. Jacobsen
• Twenty-Fifth Annual Excellence in Exhibition Competition