Date of Award

2012

Document Type

Master Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (Research)

Department

Cork Institute of Technology

First Advisor

Emmett Coffey

Second Advisor

Frank O'Donovan

Abstract

Public relations strategies and tactics have helped Irish business and Irish organisations to effectively meet their goals for decades. However, museums are now also benefiting from public relations practices .Effective public relations strategies have become important to museums in order to utilise social media and to open up access to their collections.

Many museums are non-profits and they have a unique set of communication concerns that force them to engage with multiple publics in order to operate efficiently and achieve success. A fter conducting with PR professionals working in the museum around Ireland this paper analyzes how public relations is practices in museums

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