Sarah Gillis, Assistant Registrar, the Worcester Art Museum The world-renowned Worcester Art Museum, in Worcester, Massachusetts, is home to an encyclopedic collection spanning 5,000 years of art and culture and 38,000 objects including, but not limited to: paintings, sculpture, decorative […]
See How Conservation Studio Streamlines the Workflows of Museum Conservators Follow a day in the life of Jane, a busy conservator who must manage treatment and object preparation for an upcoming exhibition. Learn how Jane manages the exhibition checklist, determines […]
Examined by Sarah Gillis, Assistant Registrar for Image Management at the Worcester Art Museum As galleries, libraries, archives and museums bring their physical objects into the digital realm, new methods of organization need to be designed to support the accessibility […]
Brian MacElhose, Collections Database Analyst, the Dallas Museum of Art Established in 1903, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is among the 10 largest art museums in the country and is distinguished by its commitment to research, innovation, and public […]
Carole Campbell, Registrar for Collections Management, J. Paul Getty Museum Carole Campbell is the Registrar for Collections Management at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California. Carole and her staff work extensively within TMS […]
A Look at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Cooper Hewitt's Digital Initiatives Museums as media companies? It may seem like a bit of a stretch, but as museums reposition themselves for our new digital age they are becoming more […]
Using Collections Management Software to Produce an Ambitious Catalogue Raisonné The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation, in Berkeley, California, is working on a project to compile a catalogue raisonné of the paintings and works on paper by American artist Richard Diebenkorn. Among […]
A Step-by-Step Tutorial in The Museum System (TMS) The simple root of this complex issue is that an object can be composed of multiple components. A tea service is composed of a cup, a spoon, and a saucer, and it […]
Integrating and Promoting Fine Art and Archives through Technology Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA), in Williamstown, Massachusetts, is widely considered to be one of the finest college art museums in the United States. It houses over 14,000 works that […]
Incredible Discoveries by the Barnes Foundation and the Baltimore Museum of Art Not only do conservators play a critical role in preserving art and artifacts, sometimes they discover them too. This week in Conservation News we highlight two stories where […]
