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I commend this volume to a careful reading. It is replete with strong dos and uncompromising don'ts ... As a handbook for those who are attempting to bring their museums into the twenty-first century, it is a splendidly complete guide.
–Paul N. Perrot, Director, Santa Barbara Museum of Art
I commend this volume to a careful reading. It is replete with strong dos and uncompromising donts ... As a handbook for those who are attempting to bring their museums into the twenty-first century, it is a splendidly complete guide.
–Paul N. Perrot, Director, Santa Barbara Museum of Art
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A definitive guide to best practice in museums, at a time in which all museums require ever more innovative solutions to processes of interpreting the world's cultural and scientific heritage.
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appropriate curator, outgoing loans, museum profession, museum ethics, unrestricted title, incoming loans, accession card, loan objects, lending party, museum personnel, borrowing institution, museum reserves, collection care, window mat, preventive conservation, museum workers, museum management, museum security, exhibit ideas, museum community, museum environment, museum educator, museum education, collecting policy, acquired objects Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
International Council of Museums, American Association of Museums, Smithsonian Institution Press, New York, Museum News, New Century, Manual of Curatorship, Leicester University Press, Managing Museum Collections, National Park Service, United States, Institutional Ethics, Legal Primer, Training of Museum Personnel, Exhibiting Cultures, Fondation de France, John Cotton Dana, Lisa Roberts, Museum Handbook, Museum Masters, Reinwardt Academic, Buenos Aires, Department of Interior, Educational Tool, Environmental Protection of Collections New!
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- A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections, 2nd Edition by Marie C. Malaro on 5 pages
- Manual for Museums by Ralph H. Lewis on 4 pages
- Making Exhibit Labels: A Step-by-Step Guide by Beverly Serrell on 4 pages
- The Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art and Antiquities (Butterworth - Heinemann Series in Conservation and Museology) by Hermann Kuhn on page 91, page 113, and page 141
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- Museum Ethics (The Heritage) by Gary Edson in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- International Directory of Museum Training: Programs and Practices of the Museum Profession (Heritage : Care-Preservation-Management) by Gary Edson in Front Matter, and page 48
- Museums: A Place to Work: Planning Museum Careers (Heritage : Care-Preservation-Management) by Jane R. Glaser in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Museums: A Place to Work: Planning Museum Careers (Heritage : Care-Preservation-Management) by Jane R. Glaser on page 2, and page 260
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