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Museums and their Observers Debate the Field’s Deaccessioning Ethics

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

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

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

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Collections Stewardship

An ‘Endangered’ Artifact Allows a Small Museum to Better Tell Its Story

Wikipedia Is Digitally ‘Preserving’ Items Destroyed in the Brazil National Museum Fire

Collections 2030 – What Future for Museum Collections in the UK?

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

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