Collecting & the Meaning of Forever Long Term Thinking about Collections Stewardship Western Museums Association Annual Conference 27 October 2015
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Collecting& the Meaning
of Forever
Long Term Thinking about Collections
Stewardship
Western Museums Association Annual Conference
27 October 2015
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Museum Wormianum, Denmark
Tribuna of the Uffizi, Zoffany
Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
National Museum of Ireland ornithology collections
Broad Museum, Los Angeles
Minnesota Historical Society Archives, St Paul
Smithsonian Museum Support Center, Suitland MD
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“A museum is a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates, and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment.”
ICOM Statutes, 21st General Conference, Vienna 2007.
“A museum is a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates, and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment.”
ICOM Statutes, 21st General Conference, Vienna 2007.
“A museum is a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates, and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment.”
ICOM Statutes, 21st General Conference, Vienna 2007.
“A museum is a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates, and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment.”
ICOM Statutes, 21st General Conference, Vienna 2007.
Given museums’ imperative to collect, what does it mean to make that commitment in perpetuity?
How can museums creatively address the tension between collecting/conserving materialand maximizing its public value over time?
Jill SterrettSFMoMA
• Nine museum collections in Glasgow
• Millions of objects
• 15,000 visitors each year
Glasgow Museums Resource Centre
More than acres of screens…
…curated screens
“the delirium of storage”
In the new SFMOMA, physical
working spaces have been
conceived and designed to reflect,
affirm, and advance the
collaborative practices by which
museums learn—staging,
documenting, researching, and
conserving.
A gallery in the middle of the vault
Collection study days > 50
Dan Flavin study day
Testing a Robert Rauschenberg display
Robert Motherwell during conservation treatment
Ellsworth Kelly roundtable
High-tech product design
study day
June 30, 2015
Curatorial
Collections
Content Strategy
Exhibitions
Artists collaborations > 15
Doug Hall
Richard Misrach
Julia Scher
Janet Delaney
StudentsTeachers > 800 guestsScholars
SFUSD teachers
The Library and Archives
SFMOMA COLLECTIONS CENTER
Close-looking
Artist collaborations
RoundtablesArtist Julia Scher in residence July 2014
Ellsworth Kelly study day October 2014
Gallery lighting session October 2013
Classes
Display experiments
Ted GreenbergMuseum Consultant | www.tagyourart.com
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Broad Museum, Los Angeles
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ResourcesCalifornia Association of Museums. Foresight Research Report: Collections and Assets in Museums.
Holden, John. Capturing Cultural Value. London: Demos, 2008.www.demos.co.uk/files/CapturingCulturalValue.pdf
Keene, Suzanne, ed. Collections for People: Museums’ Stored Collections as a Public Resource. London: UCL Institute of Archaeology, 2008.http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/13886/1/13886.pdf
Lord, Barry. “The Life of Collections and the Cost of Keeping Them.” In The Manual of Museum Planning. Ed. Barry Lord, Gail Dexter Lord, and Lindsay Martin, 246-250. Lanham, Maryland: Alta Mira Pres, 2012.
Merriman, Nick. “Museum Collections and Sustainability.” Cultural Trends 17 (2008): 3-21.http://www.museumsassociation.org/asset_arena/0/27/16720/v0_master.doc
National Museum Directors Conference. Too Much Stuff: Disposals from Museums. London, 2003. http://www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/media/documents/publications/too_much_stuff.pdf
O’Hagan, John. “Art Museums: Collections, Deaccessioning and Donations.” Journal of Cultural Economics 22 (1998): 197-207.
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