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Liebieghaus Depot collection storage. A collection manager ensures the proper care and preservation of objects within cultural institutions such as museums, libraries, and archives. Collection managers, along with registrars, curators, and conservators, play an important role in collections care. Collection Managers and Registrars are two ...
Museum Properties Management Act of 1955, (16 USC, Sect. 18 [f]): explains the responsibilities and actions that may be performed by the United States secretary of the interior through the National Park Service to include accepting donations and bequests of money, purchasing museum objects and collections, making exchanges of museum objects or ...
Many institutions now require a graduate education in museum studies or field relating to the museum's collections in this competitive job market. Candidates are also expected to have hands-on experience in museum collection database management, object packing and handling, digitization, collections cataloging, and accession and loan procedures.
Camilla Hampshire, Museums Manager and Cultural Lead at Exeter's Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery. Jennifer Jones, Collections Development Officer at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust . Sarah Levitt, Head of Arts and Museums, Culture and Neighbourhood Services, Leicester City Council.
PACCIN is the Preparation, Art Handling, Collections Care Information Network. It is a professional subcommittee of the American Alliance of Museums. The webpage features a listserv, forums, and articles to connect object oriented museum professionals and share resources. The organization also organizes trainings and conferences across the ...
Curator and exhibit designer dress a mannequin for an exhibit.. A curator (from Latin: cura, meaning 'to take care') [1] is a manager or overseer. When working with cultural organizations, a curator is typically a "collections curator" or an "exhibitions curator", and has multifaceted tasks dependent on the particular institution and its mission.
"Pesticide Mitigation in Museum Collections: Science in Conservation (Proceedings from the MCI Workshop Series)". Smithsonian Contributions to Museum Conservation. Washington, D.C.: 1– 72. doi: 10.5479/si.19492359.1.1. Copies of this volume are available for free pdf download from the Smithsonian's digital library by clicking on the included ...
A catalogue of the items in a collection using index cards. Museum collections, and archives in general, are normally catalogued in a collection catalogue, traditionally in a card index, but nowadays in a computerized database. Transferring collection catalogues onto computer-based media is a major undertaking for most museums.