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Gillian Essam, Recently Retired Collection Information Manager, The National Gallery, London After a professional career spanning 24 years, Gillian Essam, former Collection Information Manager at The National Gallery, is still adjusting to her new-found free time. Prior to her arrival […]
Emmanuelle Delmas-Glass, Collections Data Manager, the Yale Center for British Art The Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut is home to the largest collection of British art outside the UK. The works of art, rare books, and […]
Standardizing Cataloguing for a Natural History Collection The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology is Canada’s only museum dedicated exclusively to the science of palaeontology. It houses one of the world’s largest natural history collection and features numerous displays of dinosaurs […]
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 […]
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 […]
Find the Latest Anecdotes and News at Registrar Trek: The Next Generation A registrar's day is varied and full of novelty: one moment you're buried among endless rows of priceless artifacts that have been hibernating in storage, and the next […]
Creating Productivity Reports in TMS I know I’m busy, but does everyone else at my museum know it? Sometimes it can be useful to have quantifiable data that confirms empirically what you already know to be the case: that you’re […]
Hilde Bøe, Digital Collection Manager, the Munch Museum Hilde Bøe is Digital Collection Manager at the Munch Museum, where she and the majority of museum staff, including curators, conservators, library and education staff, work within TMS daily to catalogue an […]
Best Practices for Dealing with B-Sides There are two sides to every argument, but are there two sides to every artwork? Actually, there are. We usually fall into the habit of thinking about art objects as being neatly divisible into […]
