The US National Trust for Historic Preservation, for example, recently launched a "Re-imagining Historic House Museums" program in response to what one industry leader called the "grave challenges" that small museums face in the United States.
In 1979, Semmel was a Fellow in the Museums Program of the National Endowment for the Arts.
You can provide the programs but the programs museums tend to provide are for people who come to the museum, programs for those already in the chorus.
But some directors are concerned that museum programs are becoming money-driven.
As the number of home-schooling families grows, museum programs for them are springing up all over the country.
"The profits go back into the museum programs," said Susan DeLand, head of retail and merchandising at the Getty.
"In other words, structure and history account for U.S. museum programs that, by and large, address a very broad public," Ms. Kuoni said.
(201) 420-2207) NEWARK MUSEUM Programs include, in the Dreyfuss Planetarium, "Circus in the Stars," Saturdays and Sundays at 1 and 3 p.m.; through June 23.
Mr. Shapiro, who was director of the Los Angeles County Museum for 10 months in 1994, joined the High the next year as director of museum programs and its chief curator.
