Museum Collecting Lessons: Acquisition Stories from the Inside Miller Steven
Museum Collecting Lessons: Acquisition Stories from the Inside Miller Steven Museum Collecting Lessons explains how and why museums meet their fundamental duty to collect. Together, the essays…
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Museum Collecting Lessons: Acquisition Stories from the Inside Miller Steven
Museum Collecting Lessons explains how and why museums meet their fundamental duty to collect. Together, the essays provide fascinating insights into a wide variety of significant acquisitions and museum collecting initiatives. It is the first book of its kind to explore the diverse ways these unique institutions acquire what is preserved and used for exhibitions, programs, publications, and online applications.The 11 chapters that make up the volume are written by museum practitioners working in art, history, and science museums in the United States, Canada, and India.
Commonly shared acquisition denominators are also covered and include mission pertinence, quality control, the feasibility and legality of acquisition, personnel and volunteer involvement, and long-term The authors explain customary collecting methods, including donation, purchase, and field retrieval.
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