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- Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections: A Practical Guide for Museums (opens in a new window)
- January 2, 2024
- Managing previously unmanaged collections can be challenging. The process of securing the collection and making it accessible needs the mindset of a collections manager as well as the one of a project manager. The target audience are museum professio…
- 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.
- Howdy Partner! Mapping the Wild West of Exhibition Collaborations (opens in a new window)
- April 28, 2021
- Discussion on the challenges, shared responsibilities, and lessons learned that arise when two institutions collaborate to organize a seamless traveling exhibition.
- Off Site Storage: Build or Rent (opens in a new window)
- April 28, 2021
- Panel discusses the pros and cons of a museum having its own storage facility versus renting storage space from a fine arts warehouse.
- Two Peas in a Crate: Crossover between Museum Registration + Fine Art Shipping (opens in a new window)
- April 28, 2021
- Discussion on the ever-changing industry and relationships between shippers and registrars, the pros of having experience in both positions, and how this crossover influences exhibition logistics and problem solving.
- Installation On Display (opens in a new window)
- April 28, 2021
- This session discusses the experience, challenges, benefits, and take-aways of installing art in public view.
- A Foot in the Door: Transitioning a Job into a Career (opens in a new window)
- April 28, 2021
- Discussion on the regsitration and collections management career path. The panelists started with education, early interests, and jobs, and then discussed how this led to their careers.
- Fine Art Storage – An environmental and economical storage approach (opens in a new window)
- April 28, 2021
- Insight into how Hasenkamp has successfully planned for Fine Art Storage with the environment and budget in mind. Learn how to be sustainable and limit your carbon footprint in terms of Fine Art Storage.
- Flexible Cataloging for Enormous Collections (opens in a new window)
- April 28, 2021
- The Heny Ford musuem acquires a the entire collection of a local museum needing to close. The process consisted of assessing what types of objects were being acquired, physically moving it, reviewing the cataloging process, and how to maintain an ong…
- Databases, A Workflow, and A Student Staff : The Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum’s Approach to Digitizing 137 Years of Collections Records (opens in a new window)
- April 26, 2021
- Discussion on The Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum's success with tackling complex, multi-year projects using its student staff with a few simple tools: the museum’s object database, basic customized project databases, and detailed written work fl…
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ethics
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