Los Angeles, CA | December 4-8, 2017 Mark your calendar and secure your funding: Collective Imagination 2017, the international TMS user conference, will be held in Los Angeles, California, at the Omni Hotel at California Plaza. Conference workshops take place […]
Cataloguing a Museum without Walls Chapman University Art Collections is a unique group of collections that functions through the lens of education and consists of the Phyllis & Ross Escalette Permanent Collection of Art, the Chapman Campus Collection, and the […]
A Museum-Led Webinar by the Registrar Department of The Smithsonian American Art Museum The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) collection of time-based media arts (TBMA) increases every year in number and complexity. Objects range from 16mm films and vintage electronic […]
Glasgow, UK | November 7-9, 2016 The Museums Association is pleased to welcome museum, collections, and heritage professionals to their upcoming session of the Museums Association’s Annual Conference and Exhibition. The meeting has grown to become the largest event of […]
Providing Best Practices and Tools for Institutions with Film Collections The International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) has published The FIAF Moving Image Cataloguing Manual, designed to help archivists working with moving images to navigate the technological advancements in cataloguing, […]
Preserving, Cataloguing, and Sharing Rare Books with Collections Management Software The Stark Museum of Art in Orange, Texas, was the vision of collectors H.J. Lutcher Stark and Nelda C. Stark. Opened in 1978, the Stark collection is focused on “the […]
Acquire the Funding You Need to Showcase Your Collections Online Digital engagement has changed the way audiences interact with institutions, and it’s now expected for museums to display their collection online. Digitizing objects for the web can be time-consuming and […]
Using Digitization to Quickly and Economically Showcase Objects Online Less than 1% of the 138 million objects housed by the Smithsonian’s 19 different museums are on public display, with most of the collections hidden away in storage [...]
London, England | October 6, 2016 Museum-iD Magazine hosts their fifth annual Museum Ideas conference on October 6 at the Science Museum, London, IMAX Theatre. This year’s conference focuses on The Future of Museums in the Era of Participatory Culture […]
Theresa Papanikolas, Curator of European and American Art, Honolulu Museum of Art The Honolulu Museum of Art houses a collection of 50,000 works spanning 5,000 years in a beautiful, state-of-the-art facility. Their collection features African art, Asian art, textiles, and […]
