Professional Development
The following resources have been collected by the Educational Resources Committee.
Books | Online Glossaries
Books
- A Companion to Museum Studies 2011 Sharon Macdonald
- A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections, Third Edition 2012 Marie C. Malaro
- Art and Its Publics: Museum Studies at the Millennium 2003 Andrew McClellan
- Art Law: A Concise Guide for Artists, Curators, and Art Educators 2016 Michael Jones
- Caring for American Indian Objects: A Practical and Cultural Guide 2004 Sherelyn Ogden
- Conservation Concerns: A Guide for Collectors and Curators 2012 Konstanze Bachmann
- Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums 2012 Amy Lonetree
- Exhibit Makeovers: A Do-It-Yourself Workbook for Small Museums 2017 Alice Parman, Ann Craig, et al.
- Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience 2009 John H Falk
- Is It Ours?: Art, Copyright, and Public Interest 2021 Martha Buskirk
- Law and Art: Justice, Ethics and Aesthetics 2011 Oren Ben-Dor
- Learning from Museums: Visitor Experiences and the Making of Meaning (American Association for State and Local History) 2000 John H. Falk and Lynn D. Dierking
- Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections: A Practical Guide for Museums 2016 Angela Kipp
- Museum Collections Management: A Handbook 2011 Freda Matassa
- Museum Governance. Mission, Ethics, Policy 1994 Marie C. Malaro
- Museum Registration Methods (American Alliance of Museums) 6th Edition 2020 John E. Simmons and Toni M. Kiser
- New Collecting: Exhibiting and Audiences after New Media Art 2016 Beryl Graham
- On the Road Again: Developing and Managing Traveling Exhibitions (American Alliance of Museums) 2020 Rebecca Buck, Jean Gilmore, et al.
- Reinventing the Museum: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Paradigm Shift 2004 Gail Anderson
- The AAM Guide to Collections Planning 2004 James B. Gardner and Elizabeth E. Merritt
- The Art Museum in Modern Times 2021 Charles Saumarez Smith
- The Comprehensive Guide to NFTs, Digital Artwork, and Blockchain Technology 2021 Marc Beckman
- The Ethics of Collecting Cultural Property: Whose Culture? Whose Property? 1999 Phyllis Mauch Messenger and Brian Fagan
- Things Great and Small: Collections Management Policies (American Alliance of Museums) 2017 John E. Simmons
- Virtual Memory: Time-Based Art and the Dream of Digitality 2015 Homay King
- Visual Arts and the Law: A Handbook for Professionals (Handbooks in International Art Business) 2013 Judith B. Prowda
- Registration Methods for the Small Museum (American Association for State and Local History) Fifth Edition 2017 Daniel B. Reibel and revised by Deborah Rose Van Horn
Online Glossaries
- Canadian Conservation Institute - Care of objects and collections
- The Fine Arts Conservancy - Glossary for Works on Paper
- Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material - Visual Glossary
- Foundation for Advancement in Conservation - Connecting to Collections Care
- NPS Museum Handbook, Part I: Museum Collections
- PACCIN - Preparation, Art Handling, Collections Care Network
- School for Adavnced Research - Standards for Museums with Native American Collections
- Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute (MCI)
- MetPublications - The Care and Handling of Art Objects
- MuseumPests
- The Sustainable Heritage Network (SHN)
- Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts, Philadelphia
- Midwest Art Conservation Center
- NPS Conserve O Grams
- Condition Glossary for Works on Paper
- Condition Glossary for Paintings
- W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy)
- MET publications
- Society of American Archivists - Resources and Toolkits
- Visual Resources Association
- Graphics Atlas
