Collections Stewardship

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

This world-changing genius was born into poverty on September 22, 1791. Fortunately for us, Michael Faraday refused to let his background stand in his way. 1. HE WAS LARGELY SELF-EDUCATED. …

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

Elizabeth Merritt

On Cross Collecting, or Cross-Over Buying

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Museums and their Observers Debate the Field’s Deaccessioning Ethics

Steve Dubb, Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

Reinforcement Crew: A Look Back

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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

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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

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

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Collections Stewardship

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

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

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