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 conservation treatments led to hidden treasures [...]
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 moment you’re managing digital shipping and loan records in the collection database [...]
World-Class Canadian Museum Chooses TMS and eMuseum
Gallery Systems is pleased to welcome the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) as the newest member of its TMS user community. Among the world’s leading museums of natural history and world cultures, the ROM will utilize Gallery Systems’ TMS collection management software [...]
Large-Scale Collection, Small-Scale Team: Effectively Maintaining Community-Based Cultural Collections
The Indian Arts Research Center (IARC), a division of the School for Advanced Research (SAR) located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, implemented TMS from Gallery Systems to efficiently manage their extensive collection of Southwestern Native Art. Although not a traditional exhibiting museum [...]
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 working with superhuman energy on many projects simultaneously and your efforts are helping [...]
Developing Our Conservation Documentation Software
Conservation management features have been part of The Museum System (TMS) from its beginning. When Jay Hoffman, CEO of Gallery Systems, was developing the first Windows version of TMS for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1990s, the museum’s need for software to track the condition, rehousing, and location of the textiles being moved [...]
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 immense and varied collection of Edvard Munch's work and ephemera [...]
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 three-dimensional and two-dimensional. But the truth is, no tangible thing is actually two-dimensional [...]
Jennifer Day, Registrar, the Indian Arts Research Center
Jennifer Day serves as the Registrar at the Indian Arts Research Center (IARC), a division of the School for Advanced Research (SAR) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Jennifer manages collection records, new acquisitions, and paperwork and logistics for loan and image reproduction requests [...]
Atlanta, Georgia | April 26-29, 2015
This year’s American Alliance of Museums’ (AAM) annual meeting and museum expo will be held at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia, from April 26th to 29th, and Gallery Systems will be there. AAM is a great place to hear about the latest trends in museum practices [...]
