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The Sue & Frank Mayborn Natural Science and Cultural History Museum Complex (abbreviated as MMC) is a 142,000-square-foot (13,200 m 2) facility that opened in May 2004 at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
A participating museum may receive benefits that can outweigh a potential reduction in direct admissions fees. Access to reciprocal membership privileges is usually reserved for membership levels higher than a basic membership, and participating museums have found that membership revenues may increase after announcement of a reciprocal program.
The Smithsonian Affiliations program was established in 1996 by Smithsonian Secretary I. Michael Heyman [3] [4] with the approval of the Smithsonian Board of Regents, in response to several challenges the Institution faced at the time: a decrease in federal funding, limited storage space for expanding collections, and the need to make the Institution more reflective of the nation without ...
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This is a list of science centers in the United States. American Alliance of Museums (AAM) and Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC) member centers are granted institutional benefits and may offer benefits to individuals through purchased or granted individual memberships as well.
The initial AAM headquarters in Washington, D.C.; it is now headquartered in Arlington County, Virginia. The American Alliance of Museums (AAM), formerly the American Association of Museums, [2] is a non-profit association whose goal is to bring museums together.
Acquisitions: When an object arrives at the museum for the first time as a prospective addition to the collection, a registrar immediately begins the documentation and tracking process by assigning a temporary identification number and assembling records that include the object's condition, date of arrival, the reason for its arrival at the ...
To begin, a museum should review a floor plan of the building and determine all “doors, windows, water and heat sources, and drains”, as well as all furniture and other objects within the museum. [6] The museum can place traps that have been numbered and dated throughout the building using the floor plan as a guide of potential problem areas.