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Focus Issue: Promoting Exhibit Access and Safety (opens in a new window): February 22, 2025; In collaboration with Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, the Promoting Exhibit Access and Safety (PEAS) working group published articles discussing multidisciplinary approaches to exhibit access and safety in a special focu…
National NAGPRA Program Home What We Do News - National Park Service (opens in a new window): June 25, 2024; The National NAGPRA Program will host a series of 10 webinars on the new regulations on the third Friday of every month from 1pm to 2:30pm Eastern time. Registration is required, but the meeting information is always the same. Register once and atten…
NAGPRA Update 2024 (opens in a new window): January 12, 2024; Updates to the NPS website about NAGPRA, including new templates and guidance, published on Friday, January 12, 2024. Join Melanie O'Brien for a tour of the changes and new documents. *Session was re-recorded on January 18, 2024, due to technical iss…
Repatriation and Change: How the ethical return of objects can create momentum for institutional change- Session Review (Conference Session, 2023): December 20, 2023; Review for the ARCS 2023 Conference Session of Repatriation and Change: How the ethical return of objects can create momentum for institutional change
Decolonizing Nomenclature One Language at a Time - Session Review (Conference Session, 2023): December 19, 2023; Session review by Gabrielle Turner National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center
Repatriation and Change: How the ethical return of objects can create momentum for institutional change - Session Review (Conference Session, 2023): December 19, 2023; Session review by Madisonne Ricks
Decolonizing Nomenclature One Language at a Time - Session Review (Conference Session, 2023): December 19, 2023; Session Review by Shauna Matthews
ARCSchat April 2022 Exploring NAGPRA and the 2021 Proposed Program Changes: April 5, 2022; Since 1990, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act has been in place to provide for the repatriation and disposition of certain Native American human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony. Ov…
ARCSchat January 2022: The Trials and Ethics of Rapid Response Collecting: January 11, 2022; In April of 2020, The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History launched a task force charged with collecting and documenting the impact of COVID-19 on history and culture. At a moment's notice they had to formulate a collecting strategy and …
ARCSchat October 2021: The Future of Museum Funding w/ Katherine Wilson-Milne: October 5, 2021; There has been much ado in recent years about museum funding; from institutions declining support from organizations rumored to conduct unethical business practices, to the temporary expansion of deaccession fund regulations in the field. And gosh, e…

U.S. Fish and Wildlife - Introduction to the Ivory Identification Guide (opens in a new window): September 30, 2021; Web version of the Identification Guide for Ivory and Ivory Substitutes by Edgard O. Espinoza and Mary-Jacque Mann, published in cooperation with the CITES Secretariat, and was developed to give information about a nondestructive and visual means of …
ARCSchat September 7, 2021: Restitution and Repatriation with Alexander Herman: September 7, 2021
Immunity from Judicial Seizure Statute (opens in a new window): May 17, 2021; Explanation and guidance on immunity from judicial seizure legislation
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (opens in a new window): May 17, 2021; Official source for all information and latest updates from this Government Agency.
Repatriation: Building Bridges between Nations (opens in a new window): May 17, 2021; Discussion on different types of repatriations and their importance for building cultural bridges.
Safe Art, Safe Planet (Conference Session, 2019): May 15, 2021
Who's Responsible? Liability Concepts when working with Service Providers (Conference Session, 2019): May 15, 2021
A Registrar, a Broker and an Underwriter Walk into a Bar... : Advanced Topics in Insurance (Conference Session, 2017): May 15, 2021
Acquisitions and Loans: Imparting Important Facts for Import (Conference Session, 2019): April 26, 2021
Impact of Administrative Actions on Commercial Trade in Elephant Ivory: April 26, 2021
Museum Property Acts and Abandoned Loan Legislation (2018): April 26, 2021; Regulations from each state listed.
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (opens in a new window): April 19, 2021; NAGPRA addresses claims by federally recognized tribes for the return of human remains and cultural objects unlawfully obtained from prehistoric, historic, former, and current Native American homelands.
CITES - Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (opens in a new window): April 19, 2021; CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) is an international agreement between governments. Its aim is to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten the…
U.S. Fish and Wildlife - Ivory Ban Questions and Answers (opens in a new window): April 19, 2021; The United States Fish and Wildlife Service is currently undertaking a series of administrative actions to implement a nearly complete ban on commercial elephant ivory trade. These actions involve different timelines and processes, some of which will…
ARCSchat April 6, 2021: Lost in the News: Paddy Johnson Decodes the Headlines: April 6, 2021
Code of Ethics and Professional Practices for Collections Professionals (AAM): February 24, 2021
Abandoned Property Law in Maryland: October 1, 2020
ARCSchat February 4, 2019: February 4, 2019
ARCSchat February 4, 2019: February 4, 2019
Copyright, Permissions, and Fair Use among Visual Artists and the Academic and Museum Visual Arts Communities: February 3, 2014
Online Museum Training - Shipwreck Legislation in Victoria: April 30, 2013

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