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Museum Registration Methods

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Museum Registration Methods is the definitive guide for museum professionals involved in collections registration, care, and management. Now in its sixth edition, this comprehensive resource covers every stage from acquisition to deaccessioning, including policy development, documentation, condition reporting, and provenance research. It addresses a wide range of collections such as contemporary and digital art, natural history, and living collections, while also exploring key topics like shipping, storage, risk assessment, ethics, sustainability, and intellectual property rights. With contributions from experts across diverse museum specialisations, this edition provides updated chapters, practical model forms, and reflective scenarios, ensuring it remains indispensable for the modern museum registrar.
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This book is ideal for museum registrars, collections managers, curators, and students in museum studies seeking a comprehensive and practical guide to collections care and management. Its detailed and accessible approach benefits professionals working in various museum settings, including art, natural history, and specialised collections, as well as those involved in policy, ethics, and preservation.

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The sixth edition of Museum Registration Methods is a comprehensive guide to registration and collections management of museum collections, from acquisition, use, and deaccessioning.

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Since the first edition was published in 1958, Museum Registration Methods has defined the profession and served as a fundamental reference for all aspects of collections registration, care, and management. The sixth edition of Museum Registration Methods is a comprehensive guide to registration and collections management for museums, from acquisition to use and deaccessioning.

The authors and other contributors come from a wide variety of museums and specializations. The 56 chapters in this edition are either new or updated, and include the history of the profession, the role of the registrar in the museum, managing very large collections, developing and implementing collection management policies, documentation of collections, accessioning, condition reports, deaccessioning, repositories, and provenance research.

Contemporary and digital art, living and natural history collections, loans, exhibitions, found-in-collection objects, shipping, records management, and electronic data management are also addressed, along with object handling and numbering, digitization, condition reporting, preventive care, storage on and off-site, inventory, moving and packing, shipping nationally and internationally, couriering, risk assessment, security, insurance, integrated pest management, ethics, sustainability, sacred and culturally sensitive objects, intellectual property rights, appraisal, ethical and legal issues, and research.

The book includes a comprehensive resource list, glossary, hypothetical situations to ponder, and model collection forms.

Series: American Alliance of Museums

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  • Museum Registration Methods
    Since the first edition was published in 1958, Museum Registration Methods has defined the profession and served as a fundamental reference for all aspects of collections registration, care, and management. The sixth edition of Museum Registration Methods is a comprehensive guide to registration and collections management for museums, from acquisition to use and deaccessioning. The authors and other contributors come...
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Museum Registration Methods is widely regarded as an authoritative and essential resource in collections management. Reviewers praise this sixth edition for its thorough updates and expanded scope, maintaining its reputation as a classic reference handbook. It is noted for being accessible and valuable to both newcomers and experienced professionals across all types and sizes of museums. The editors are commended for delivering an expert, detailed, and readable guide that meets the complex demands of 21st-century museum work.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781538113110

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 June 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: American Alliance Of Museums

Edition: 6th edition

Illustration: 49 b/w photos; 29 tables; 20 textboxes

Contributors:

  • Edited by John E. Simmons
  • Edited by Toni M. Kiser

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 37.0mm

Width: 217.0mm

Height: 273.0mm

Weight: 1647g

Pages: 604

About the Author

John E. Simmons has been a zookeeper, collections manager, field collector, university lecturer, editor, writer, and consultant. He currently teaches workshops and museum studies classes in the United States and internationally and serves as Associate Curator of Collections for the Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum & Art Gallery at Penn State University.

Toni Kiser is the Assistant Director for Collections Management at The National WWII Museum. She oversees all aspects of registration and collection management and has worked on various projects including large exhibition installations, digitization projects, storage moves, artifact re-housing, and cataloging and nomenclature standards.

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