The museum is entrusted with the care and preservation of the collection. Care for the collection is a collaborative effort shared by all staff. Every effort must be made to provide a stable climate ...

Artwork is acquired for long-term retention. However, occasionally, it may be in the best interest of the museum to remove artwork from the collection. Deaccessioning is the process of removing an ...

Collections management may be “the unsexy side of the art world,” but it's attractive enough to have caught the attention of private equity companies. New cloud-based software systems are making it ...

Public trust -- The accessioned object -- History of collecting and development of standards -- Museum collections terminology -- Systematic approaches : introduction to object conundrums -- Old loans ...