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Facilities & Risk Management
Up On the Roof: The McNay Art Museum’s re-roofing project
The McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX houses a world-class collection of more than 22,000 works by masters from around the world—Cezanne, Picasso, Matisse, O’Keefe and many more. …
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. …
The scary vulnerability of museums
Around midday on April 15, 1958, New York's Museum of Modern Art erupted in flames. The three-alarm fire spread rapidly, threatening the world's pre-eminent collection of 20th-century …
Capturing the Spirit of the Field Museum
One of my current projects is helping museums figure out how to develop new mission-related-income streams. In 2016, I helped develop and teach a workshop at which staff from natural …
Get Prepared: MayDay 2018
Join museums around the country in doing at least one thing in the month of May to prepare for an emergency. MayDay is an annual call to action for cultural organizations to improve their …
My Take Embracing the Personal: Developing a self-care plan is a critical part of disaster training.
This article originally appeared in the May/June 2018 issue of Museum magazine. When I first started in the museum field, I remember sitting in a mandatory egress training session to learn …
Information PLEASE Preserving History as It Happens: Orange County Regional History Center undertook rapid-response collecting after Pulse nightclub shooting
This article originally appeared in the May/June 2018 issue of Museum magazine. On June 12, 2016, a home-grown terrorist entered Orlando’s Pulse nightclub during Latin Night after last …
A Fragile but Resilient Eco-System: Santa Barbara’s Museum Community and Natural Disasters
Santa Barbara, as it is known to the world, is a small city that is a major tourist destination—on the Pacific with great beaches, close to Los Angeles but far enough away to leave the …
Art Museums in Puerto Rico Face Long and Expensive Recovery
SAN JUAN, P.R. - Marianne Ramírez Aponte, the executive director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Juan, had never been so worried. Her collection of hundreds of paintings, posters, …
With Big Gift and Tighter Oversight, the Met Gains Solid Ground
The Irving bequest, the largest financial gift to the Met in recent history, will establish an unrestricted art acquisitions endowment fund, as well as several endowment funds for the …
Seamless Coordination: 7 Reasons to Hire Your Architect and Exhibit Designer at the Same Time
A museum expansion, or the design and construction of a brand new museum, usually begins by hiring an architect, and may also include bringing on engineers, estimators, interior designers, …
Rescuing Puerto Rico’s Cultural Heritage
Janet Vaughan is Vice President, Membership & Excellence for the American Alliance of Museums. Not one, but two powerful hurricanes devastated Puerto Rico in less than two weeks’ time …