A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections, Third Edition

A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections, Third Edition
Author: Marie C. Malaro
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2012-05-08
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1588343235

Hailed when it was first published in 1985 as the bible of U.S. collections management, A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections offers the only comprehensive discussion of the legal questions faced by museums regarding collections. This revised and expanded third edition addresses the many legal developments—including a comprehensive discussion of stolen art and the international movement of cultural property, recent developments in copyright, and the effects of burgeoning electronic uses—that have occurred during the past twenty-five years. An authorative, go-to book for any museum professional, Legal Primer offers detailed explanations of the law, suggestions for preventing legal problems, and numerous case studies of lawsuits involving museum collections.

A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections, Third Edition

A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections, Third Edition
Author: Marie C. Malaro
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2012-05-08
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1588343227

Hailed when it was first published in 1985 as the bible of U.S. collections management, A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections offers the only comprehensive discussion of the legal questions faced by museums regarding collections. This revised and expanded third edition addresses the many legal developments—including a comprehensive discussion of stolen art and the international movement of cultural property, recent developments in copyright, and the effects of burgeoning electronic uses—that have occurred during the past twenty-five years. An authorative, go-to book for any museum professional, Legal Primer offers detailed explanations of the law, suggestions for preventing legal problems, and numerous case studies of lawsuits involving museum collections.

A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections

A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections
Author: Marie C. Malaro
Publisher: Smithsonian Inst Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 1985
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780874746976

This book offers the only comprehensive discussion of the legal questions faced by museums as they acquire, use, and refine their collections. This second edition is completely revised, expanded, and updated, incorporating into the original format the many legal developments that have occured during the past 13 years.

Things Great and Small

Things Great and Small
Author: John E. Simmons
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2018
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781442277441

This revised edition of Things Great and Small is a comprehensive resource for preparing and applying collections management policies. Simmons reviews current ideas and literature on the subject, highlights the issues that collections management policies should address, and explains the pros and cons of choosing some policy options over others.

A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections, Fourth Edition

A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections, Fourth Edition
Author: Marie C. Malaro
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2025-03-18
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1588347931

A new edition of the bible of U.S. collections management—now updated for the 21st-century museum professional or Museum Studies student! This is the only comprehensive discussion of the legal questions faced by museums as they acquire, use, and refine their collections. This fully revised and expanded fourth edition addresses a thorough range of legal developments museums face, including new developments in the digital age and under new repatriation regulations. This approachable, easy-to-follow guide provides: Major updates on deaccessioning and copyright and fair use New chapters on ethical returns and shared stewardship Real-life and hypothetical lawsuit case studies Samples from museum collection policies Templates to help with document writing Suggestions for preventing legal problems Footnotes with more indepth discussion of relevant cases The book covers a wide range of issues, including nonprofit status, fraud, copyright, loans, documentation, accessioning and deaccessioning, international exhibitions, and cultural heritage concerns. The authorative A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections offers detailed explanations of the law that make it a go-to book for any museum professional.

Collections Care and Stewardship

Collections Care and Stewardship
Author: Juilee Decker
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2015-07-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1442238801

Collections Care and Stewardship: Innovative Approaches for Museums considers best practices and innovations related to documenting collections with regard to movement and safe handling of items for transport, display, photography, and treatment; collections storage; and information-sharing within and beyond the museum. The case studies in this volume examine best practices and innovations related to collections with regard to display, interpretation, engagement, storage, conservation treatment, and preservation. Several chapters address undergraduate and graduate coursework and internship experiences in a variety of contexts to offer best practices as well as evaluation of such training opportunities. All of these case studies ask us to think about the responsibilities that we have, as museum professionals, to be stewards—a challenge for all of us in terms of the obligations and responsibilities therein, but also in terms of the challenge to frame our collections as having the capacity to reflect as well as inspire. The Innovative Approaches for Museums series offers case studies, written by scholars and practitioners from museums, galleries, and other institutions, that showcase the original, transformative, and sometimes wholly re-invented methods, techniques, systems, theories, and actions that demonstrate innovative work being done in the museum and cultural sector throughout the world. The authors come from a variety of institutions—in size, type, budget, audience, mission, and collection scope. Each volume offers ideas and support to those working in museums while serving as a resource and primer, as much as inspiration, for students and the museum staff and faculty training future professionals who will further develop future innovative approaches. Contributions by: Jennifer Schwarz Ballard, Terry A. Barnhart, Rebecca E. Bria, Marlena Cannon de Mendez, Robert P. Connolly, Mary Coughlin, Elizabeth K. Cruzado Carranza, Katherine A. Johnson, Michael Jones, Allison McCloskey, Nicolette B. Meister, Carrie Wieners Meyer, Eileen Prendergast, Marjorie Schwarzer, Glori Simmons, Shari Stout, and Kelly Tomajko

National Standards & Best Practices for U.S. Museums

National Standards & Best Practices for U.S. Museums
Author: American Association of Museums
Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2008
Genre: Art
ISBN:

"[This publication] synthesises the experience and best thinking of leading professionals, looking both inward at how museums function and outward toward their role in society at large. Our goal: to offer specific ways to think more deeply about making your institution the best it can be and provide tools to bring your ideas to fruition." -- Preface.

Museum Collection Ethics

Museum Collection Ethics
Author: Steven Miller
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2020-03-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1538135213

Collection ethics – the third rail of the museum profession. What are the encompassing issues museum face regarding how they acquire, keep and work with their collections? Museum Collection Ethics discusses the complexities inherent in preserving and interpreting the extraordinary range of culturally significant objects entrusted to museums. The book presents an encompassing look at every aspect of the intellectual and stewardship duties museums by definition assume. The differences between ethics, laws, customs, and expectations are discussed. They are not synonymous. Ethics vary widely and are fluid. Essential factors include: Defining a museum as an ethical pursuit The role of museum governing authorities regarding ethics The ethics of collection authority: who is responsible for collection truths How museums collect and how ethics influences that activity The ethics of assuring collection authenticity The ethical access to collections, be it physical or digital Ethics and conservation Exhibition ethics The ethics of collection removals be they voluntary or involuntary This is the first book devoted solely to the ethical concerns museums face regarding their collections.

The New Museum Registration Methods

The New Museum Registration Methods
Author: American Association of Museums
Publisher:
Total Pages: 458
Release: 1998
Genre: Art
ISBN:

A successor to Museum Registration Methods after the revision of its third volume was abandoned as impractical. Reports the most recent research and practice for improving the care, safety, and documentation of museum collections. Covers documentation, collections management, processes, administrative functions, risk management, and ethical and legal issues. Includes a glossary without pronunciation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR