If you're looking for guidance and resources to help you with managing a museum collection, here are some ideas.
Museums and Galleries NSW's Museum methods is an excellent general guide.
The Heritage Collections Council's reCollections - caring for collections across Australia, is still available online, together with their guide to significance assessment by Kylie Winkworth, published in a new edition as Significance 2.0, and a wealth of further material is available through the different branches of Museums Australia.
Detailed conservation advice is available through the Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material (AICCM), whose website also lists consultant conservators.
Crozier Schutt Associates have developed a number of resources which are the basis of our work on relevant projects, and to which we will add from time to time. Feel free to download and use them if they seem useful to you, with appropriate acknowledgement. They include:
Template - Gift agreement
Template - Record sheet
Deaccessioning checklist
Here is some additional material from workshops we have given on exhibition development:
Template - exhibition brief
Exhibition checklist
Phases of exhibition development
Display outline (from a CSA project)
Exhibition labelling
Designing a panel using MS Publisher
Museums and Galleries NSW's Museum methods is an excellent general guide.
The Heritage Collections Council's reCollections - caring for collections across Australia, is still available online, together with their guide to significance assessment by Kylie Winkworth, published in a new edition as Significance 2.0, and a wealth of further material is available through the different branches of Museums Australia.
Detailed conservation advice is available through the Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material (AICCM), whose website also lists consultant conservators.
Crozier Schutt Associates have developed a number of resources which are the basis of our work on relevant projects, and to which we will add from time to time. Feel free to download and use them if they seem useful to you, with appropriate acknowledgement. They include:
Template - Gift agreement
Template - Record sheet
Deaccessioning checklist
Here is some additional material from workshops we have given on exhibition development:
Template - exhibition brief
Exhibition checklist
Phases of exhibition development
Display outline (from a CSA project)
Exhibition labelling
Designing a panel using MS Publisher