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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
