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EUROPEAN MILITARY

MUSEUMS

The museum's organization is a model of administrative

simplicity. There are no formal departments, but each member of
the professional staff is a specialist in some museum field of
interest, i.e., swords, guns, uniforms, and heraldry. Thus, a
natural division of labor results without the requirement for
administrative formalization. The director gives instructions to
each curator and the chief technicians and provides immediate
supervision to all those in a clerical capacity, or those who per
form administrative services for the museum. His span of control
if fairly broad, but organizational unity and personalization of
direction also result.

The personnel policies in the museum also re-enforce the

effort to attain a sense of unity. The need for professionalization is
stressed at all levels, and each individual is urged to regard himself
an important contributor to the museum

program. He is en
couraged to believe that any diminution of his efforts will lessen
the museum's capacity for high achievement. The development of
a team concept and a policy of recognition given for technical
competence have enabled the museum to achieve much in a
relatively short period and to attain an established reputation
for high quality.
There are normally 67 persons employed at the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum. Five of these, including the director, are
designated as academic officials with the rank of curator. The
chief restorer of pictures is also a highly trained academician and
is accorded a place on the professional staff. The curators and
director are all historians and have a doctor of philosophy degree
or its equivalent. Three of them are professors at the University of
Vienna, and one serves on the faculty of the Technical High
School. The teaching requirement for each is four to five hours a
week. None have had a professional career in the armed forces,
although some may have seen service during the war.
In addition to the director and members of the professional
group, the museum has a large number of technicians with widely
specialities. There are three working on the restoration
of pictures, six embroiderers who restore battle flags and standards,
seven carpenters, two tailors, two locksmiths, two master weapons
diversified

two photographers, two librarians, and two book

binders. Completing the ranks are seven who perform clerical and
conservators,