Museums must comply with a myriad of laws and ethical codes regulating virtually every aspect of their organization and operations. While some of these issues are common to businesses of all kinds, some apply to nonprofit organizations, and others are unique to the museum community. 

Museum Administration: Law and Practice explores the many areas of law applicable to museums, including governance, personnel, facilities, intellectual property, collections management, and fundraising. Designed as a textbook for use in connection with museums studies programs and law school courses, the book utilizes a “casebook” approach: relevant court decisions and other primary source materials illustrate and enliven the descriptive text. Study questions are included in each chapter so that readers can apply legal and ethical principles to museum-focused fact situations. A comprehensive but concise introductory text to the legal and ethical issues facing museums, Museum Administration: Law and Practice is also an authoritative resource for museum professionals and lawyers.

“Comprehensive and highly readable, Walter Lehmann’s new edition of Museum Administration: Law and Practice provides readers – lawyer and non-lawyer alike – an authoritative and also nuanced grounding in the organization and functioning of museums, with attention to critical issues of the day, such as governance, ethical conflicts, acquisitions and deaccessioning objects.”

Thomas R. Kline, Attorney-at-law, Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC

Management and dissemination of the Intellectual Property (IP) assets maintained by cultural institutions is a key responsibility of caring for collections. Rights and reproductions methodologies are seemingly ever-changing with new technologies, additional distribution avenues, evolving case law, applicable court decisions, and new legislation. 

This new edition of Rights & Reproductions: The Handbook for Cultural Institutions marks the first time this valuable publication is available in print as well as digital. Building upon the guidelines, standards, and best practices outlined in the first edition, the Handbook further investigates current trends in rights and reproductions practices, notably expanding the discussion of fair use guidelines and codes, Creative Commons and RightsStatements.org, open access, social media applications, and the overall process of conducting rights clearances and obtaining permissions for the growing list of possible uses of a cultural institution’s Intellectual Property. 

The Handbook is the must-have, comprehensive resource for cultural institution professionals handling rights-related work, including registrars, rights and reproductions managers, archivists, librarians, and lawyers.

From the Anzio beachhead to the roof top of the US Embassy in Saigon, this expansive memoir recounts the wide-ranging life of a US foreign service officer who quite literally had a front row seat in the Cold War. The eldest son of an émigré from Nazi Germany, Wolfgang J. Lehmann joined the US Army in 1942. After receiving military intelligence training at Camp Richie and serving on the front lines throughout the Italian campaign as a POW interrogator, Lehmann joined the US foreign service. Filled with fascinating insights and intimate details from a State Department career spanning eight Presidential administrations, the book describes Lehmann’s role in implementing post-war refugee policy and his years serving as political advisor to the Bureau for European Affairs, NATO and EURCOM during the height of the Cold War. It explains his role as Deputy Ambassador of the US Embassy in Saigon and his crucial role in the US evacuation of Vietnam in April 1975. And it details his unique perspective on German democracy as Consul General in Frankfurt during the Ford and Carter administrations. Touching on policy issues that remain relevant to this day, including the politics of immigration, proxy wars, the Middle East, and East-West relations, A Seat in the Front Row is a timely eye-witness account of Cold War policy and politics.