Beschreibung:
Small museums need affordable ways to provide care for their collections and the tools to lobby for additional funds for their long-term health. In this book, we offer practical tips for collections care, including preservation strategies for historic properties, strategies for managing collections, developing policies, and planning for the future of your museum's holdings.
Proper collections care, planning, and conservation is an essential responsibility for a museum of any size, but funding for these obligations often falls to the bottom of funding priorities because its constituencies are the quietest. Small museums need affordable ways to provide basic care for their collections and the tools to lobby for additional funds for the long-term health of collections. Small museums often do not have staff expertise on the maintenance and preservation of these large and expensive pieces of history. This book offers practical tips for collections care, including preservation strategies for historic properties and a primer on managing potential harms to your artifacts.
Editors' Note
Preface
Bob Beatty
Chapter 1 Caring for the Future: Collections Care Basics
Scott Carrlee
Chapter 2 Straight Talk about Historic Structures and Landscapes
Bruce Teeple
Chapter 3 Collections Management: Know What You Have, Know Why You Have It, Know Where You Got It, Know Where It Is
Patricia L. Miller
Chapter 4 Do We Really Want That Bust of Jesus, and What Should We Do with the Pump Organ in the Other Room? Or, Why You Want a Good Collections Management Policy
Julia Clark
Chapter 5 Collections Planning: Best Practices in Collections Stewardship
Jackie Hoff and Nicolette B. Meister
Chapter 6 Conservation Planning
Julie A. Reilly
Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors