Archive Management and Special Collections

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Why Corporate Collections Need a Collections Management System, Not Just an Archive

Why Corporate Collections Need a Collections Management System, Not Just an Archive

Corporate collections play a critical role in preserving brand heritage, supporting product innovation, and enabling storytelling across marketing, design, and communications teams. Yet many organizations still rely on traditional archive systems to manage these assets. While archives are valuable for […]

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Managing Hazardous Collections in Museums

Managing Hazardous Collections in Museums

Hazardous objects are an unavoidable reality in many science, history, and cultural institutions. Items such as mercury thermometers, arsenic-treated taxidermy, nitrate film, and lead-glazed ceramics present material risks to staff, visitors, and other collection objects. In some museums, hazardous materials […]

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Bringing Exhibitions to Life Through Archives

Bringing Exhibitions to Life Through Archives

Museums have long relied on storytelling to engage visitors, sharing knowledge and connecting them with art, history, culture, and science.

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Suzie Zuzek, Lilly Pulitzer, and The Suzie Zuzek Project

Suzie Zuzek, Lilly Pulitzer, and The Suzie Zuzek Project

Discovering the Artist Behind an Iconic American Look Imagine a chance encounter launching you into the art world after discovering a 6,000-object archive of work by a brilliant, yet largely unknown artist. This is the course Becky Smith’s life took […]

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M+ Case Study

M+ Case Study

Illuminating the Archives M+, a new museum in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District, has set out to become one of the world's largest museums of modern and contemporary visual culture and has spent the last several years collecting objects […]

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Get Your Free Copy of The FIAF Moving Image Cataloguing Manual

Get Your Free Copy of The FIAF Moving Image Cataloguing Manual

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, […]

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Best Practices for Cataloguing Photographic Archives
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Best Practices for Cataloguing Photographic Archives

Best Practices for Cataloguing Photographic Archives

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 […]

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