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Discover the latest in collections care and museum news on the Gallery Systems blog, from interviews with industry professionals to tips and tricks for maximizing your collections management workflows. Find articles most useful to you by browsing your role, or navigate through the archives for case studies, conversations with clients, grants guides, and more resources.

A Museum Professional’s Guide to Building DAM Workflows

Using a DAMS throughout the full lifecycle of digital assets
Museum DAM workflows control how well an institution cares for its digital assets. Creating and following internal processes, with a digital asset management system (DAMS), helps to ensure these assets’ preservation, organization, and proper usage. However, museums often face a twofold challenge [...]

2024 Museum Grants and Funding Opportunities

Grants Guides for museums in the United States, Europe, Canada, and Latin America
Time to unveil the 2024 Museum Grants Guides! Gallery Systems presents the new editions of our annual guides, filled with more opportunities than ever to secure funding. Discover updated guides for the United States, Canada, Europe and the UK, Latin America, and museum conservation [...]

How to Find Museum Grants for Your Institution

Discover funding opportunities in expected and unexpected places—and learn the fastest ways to assess if you should apply
Knowing where to find museum grants is often the first hurdle in securing funding. Followed in close second by deciding if a grant program, once located, would be likely to fund your application. Grant research can be time-consuming, but we can help speed it up [...]

CI 2023: Collective Conversations with Jacob Weber

Collection Systems Manager, Tate
Meet Tate’s Collection Systems Manager, Jacob Weber, in our latest installment of CI 2023: Collective Conversations. Just weeks before his Collective Imagination session, Jacob was generous enough to share a look into his role at one of the world's most renowned art institutions [...]

CI 2023: Collective Conversations with Karissa Hurzeler

Media Cataloger, National Museum of African American History & Culture
Catch up with Bryan Miller, Media Cataloger at the National Museum of African American History & Culture (NMAAHC), in the first interview of our new series, CI 2023: Collective Conversations. Get to know their CI 2023 speakers attending their sessions in Washington, D.C. [...]

CI 2023: Collective Conversations with Bryan Miller

Media Cataloger, National Museum of African American History & Culture
Catch up with Bryan Miller, Media Cataloger at the National Museum of African American History & Culture (NMAAHC), in the first interview of our new series, CI 2023: Collective Conversations. Get to know their CI 2023 speakers attending their sessions in Washington, D.C. [...]

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