Collections Stewardship

On Cross Collecting, or Cross-Over Buying

David Bellingham, Sothebysinstitute

Since the start of the new millennium, there has been an increase in cross-collecting (sometimes called 'cross-over buying'). This might seem like a recent phenomenon according to what we …

Museums and their Observers Debate the Field’s Deaccessioning Ethics

Steve Dubb, Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

Reinforcement Crew: A Look Back

Libby Krecek,

Māori ancestors repatriated to New Zealand by the Peabody Museum

Can civic museums become catalysts for social change?

Becca Antink, Thersa

The Reinforcement Crew: Colleagues Helping Colleagues

Libby Krecek,

‘It Is an Unusual and Radical Act’: Why the Baltimore Museum Is Selling Blue-Chip Art to Buy Work by Underrepresented Artists

Julia Halperin, artnet News

3D Scans Help Preserve History, But Who Should Own Them?

Laura Sydell, NPR.org

‘It Is an Unusual and Radical Act’: Why the Baltimore Museum Is Selling Blue-Chip Art to Buy Work by Underrepresented Artists

Julia Halperin, artnet News

Information PLEASE Preserving History as It Happens: Orange County Regional History Center undertook rapid-response collecting after Pulse nightclub shooting

Pamela Schwartz

Fifteen years after looting, thousands of artefacts are still missing from Iraq’s national museum

Craig Barker, The Conversation

Commerce vs. Curation: Lessons From Today’s Museums World

Scott Reyburn, Nytimes

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Collections Stewardship

On Cross Collecting, or Cross-Over Buying

Museums and their Observers Debate the Field’s Deaccessioning Ethics

Reinforcement Crew: A Look Back

Māori ancestors repatriated to New Zealand by the Peabody Museum

Can civic museums become catalysts for social change?

The Reinforcement Crew: Colleagues Helping Colleagues

‘It Is an Unusual and Radical Act’: Why the Baltimore Museum Is Selling Blue-Chip Art to Buy Work by Underrepresented Artists

3D Scans Help Preserve History, But Who Should Own Them?

‘It Is an Unusual and Radical Act’: Why the Baltimore Museum Is Selling Blue-Chip Art to Buy Work by Underrepresented Artists

Information PLEASE Preserving History as It Happens: Orange County Regional History Center undertook rapid-response collecting after Pulse nightclub shooting

Fifteen years after looting, thousands of artefacts are still missing from Iraq’s national museum

Commerce vs. Curation: Lessons From Today’s Museums World

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