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Collections Stewardship
Uncovering Future Artifacts: Come Play
Museums sit at the balance point of past and future. Most often they apply their scholarship and curiosity to exploring things that have actually happened, but museums can flip that lens to …
When the Ancestors Call to You
When we think about barriers to change, practical issues like time, money, and legal issues often are top of mind. This can be true, for example, when museums talk about repatriation, …
Call for Content! Repatriation, Restitution, and Reparative Practice
This year’s TrendsWatch report included a short piece about recent shifts in museum practice with regard to voluntary repatriation, restitution, and reparations. AAM’s Museum will delve …
Handling, Storing, and Displaying Ammunition in Museums
The following information was developed with the assistance of David Kennedy, Curator of Collections and Exhibits, United States Marshals Museum There are many museums and historic houses …
Managing Copyright Issues From Acquisition to Exhibition
This webinar organized by CSAAM (Collections Stewardship Professional Network of the American Alliance of Museums) and OCEAN (the Open Copyright Education Advisory Network) discusses the …
Remarks from Benin Bronzes Repatriation Ceremony
On October 11, 2022, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art hosted a repatriation ceremony in which officials of the museum transferred ownership of twenty-nine Benin bronzes and …
The Uses of Discomfort: LGBTQ Collections Their Repositories and Their Legacies
People left out of traditional cultural narratives are forced to become the custodians of their own histories. For queer institutions, this means collecting stigmatized materials that other …
TechTalk: Collections Insurance Top Ten Questions to Make Sure Your Museum is Properly Covered
Collections and loans are vital to every museum. But do you know how they are insured? How would the museum’s insurance policy respond in the event of a fire or pipe break? What if the …
In Pursuit of Cultural Property Ownership Disputes in Museums Today
Museums are seeing new claims on objects, including large-scale demands for the repatriation of artifacts to their --countries of origin. When handled properly, these situations reflect …
Changing How They See
The Brooklyn Children’s Museum is decolonizing its collection with the help of local…
Tech Talk: How to Address the Collections Management Troublesome Trio
This is a recorded Tech Talk from the 2020 AAM Virtual Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo. Presented by Lucidea Transcript Candyce McDonald : Thanks for joining us today for our guest …
Decolonizing Museum Collections: A Conversation between Colleagues in the Field
Are you curious about the work surrounding Decolonizing museum collections? Presented by the former Collections Stewardship Professional Network (CSAAM) and the CSAAM Emerging Museum …