Reported here are the results of two research studies conducted within a one year period. The studies were intended to investigate the relative importance of a variety of critical variables postulated as possible reasons for the under-utilization of museums by African Americans. The first study focused on the background and interests of users of science-related museums such as science centers, natural history museums and zoos.

James Heilbrun considers way in which art museums can better share some of their resources that for economists (as well as for some in the wider public) are wasted when merely stored rather than displayed. (p. 4)

This monograph presents a summary of the findings from the Nonprofit Facilities Fund's National Cultural Facilities Study which was completed in the summer of 1992.

[This book] recounts the eight-year process by which the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre converted a former power plant into a state-of-the-art performing arts complex. Marshalling the resources of trustees, fundraisers, private sector business leaders, local, state and federal officials, architects, demolition experts, contractors and - above all - the company's own artists, technicians and administrators, the Milwaukee Rep created an extraordinarily beautiful and highly functional new home as part of an ambitious plan for the revitalization of downtown Milwaukee. . . . this backstage tour of the

Directory to museums of all types and other organizations that organize traveling exhibitions of their collections. Includes information on arrangements, requirements and examples of current exhibitions.

The shortage in quality, affordable and practical cultural facilities is common through all regions of the country and represents one of the leading problems facing today's artists and arts providers. The creative and complex solutions that communities have devised to address their own particular cultural facility needs are decidedly, and necessarily, local. Cultural facilities planning, development, and long-term management comprise one of the most rapidly growing functions of local arts agencies. There are basic elements which must be considered and are generally common to every successful

Paper presented at the conference Museums and Communities, held at the International Center of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., March 21-23, 1990, and sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Smithsonian.

Paper presented at the conference Museums and Communities, held at the International Center of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, March 21-23, 1990, and sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Smithsonian.

Paper presented at the conference Museums and Communities, held at the International Center of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, March 21-23, 1990, and sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Smithsonian.

This is the second annual survey of Australian museums and art museums conducted by the Australia Council. The results of the 1988-89 survey were published in Research Paper no. 3 in May 1990. This is the first time, however, that New Zealand museums have been included in this survey - as a cooperative venture between the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand and the Australia Council.