Deaccessioning Today - Miller, Steven

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Résumé :
Chapter 1. An Introduction to Museums Chapter 2. Deaccessioning - Background Chapter 3. Reasons for Deaccessioning Chapter 4. Deaccession Processes Chapter 5. Deaccession Implementation Chapter 6. Deaccessioning Controversies and More Appendix I. AAMD Association of Art Museum Directors Policy on Deaccessioning Appendix II. New York State Museum. A Sample Collections Management Policy Appendix III. Media Alert. Boscobel House & Gardens Appendix IV. Metropolitan Museum of Art Deaccessioning Policy Appendix V. Sample Deaccession List. Boscobel House and Gardens Deaccession List Appendix VI. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Press Release, June 26, 1973. Metropolitan Museum Issues Trustee Report on Recent Disposals...

Biographie:
Steven Miller has devoted nearly fifty years to museum service. He has been a curator, mid-level administrator, director, educator, trustee, writer, and consultant. His career began with the Museum of the City of New York in its curatorial department for paintings, prints and photographs. He concluded that job as senior curator. He was then the assistant director of the Mains State Museum, director of museums at the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH, executive director of the Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT, executive director of the Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ and executive director of Boscobel Restoration, Garrison, NY. Miller has written, lectured, consulted, and been closely involved in deaccessioning matters since the practice started receiving widespread attention in the mid-1970s. His academic accolades include B.A., Bard College, Sculpture, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY International Graduate Certificate, Principles of Conservation Science, (UNESCO) International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, Rome, Italy....

Sommaire:
Steven Miller has been in the museum field for nearly fifty years. During that time he has been a curator, administrator, director, trustee, writer, consultant, and museum studies educator. He has served with six major museums in the northeastern United States. He holds a BA in sculpture (with honors) from Bard College and an international graduate certificate in the Principles of Conservation Science from the International Centre for the Study of the Conservation and Preservation of Cultural Property, Rome, Italy....