Join us beginning June 30, 2025 for the 4 week course Policies for Managing Collections. In this course we will critically examine the purposes and functions of collections management policies, including how collections are defined, acquired, managed, used, maintained, and deaccessioned. The course textbook,Things Great and Small: Collections Management Policies, Third Edition, will be supplemented by a variety of readings and assignments.
Join us beginning August 4, 2025 for the 4 week course Laws & Collections Management.
This course provides an accessible introduction to the basic legal aspects of managing museum collections by presenting an overview of the legal organization of museums and the scope and significance of key US and international laws and regulations that affect collecting and managing museum collections. The course textbook (A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections) is supplemented by a changing variety of pertinent readings and class discussions.
Join us beginning March 31, 2025 us for the four week course Moving Museum Collections.
Moving Museum Collections provides a how-to for planning and managing a collection move to avoid the many pitfalls associated with a move project. The course will help you clarify your project, develop a work plan, prepare a communication scheme, define proposals for vendors, organize staffing and establish packing protocols.
Join us beginning June 2, 2025 for the 4 week course Repatriation Beyond NAGPRA.
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) has come a long way in the last three decades, but museums still have a lot of work to do, and repatriation does not begin and end with the mandates laid out in NAGPRA regulations. If this work is to be effective and adhere to the spirit of the law, museum practitioners will need to go above and beyond (what? NAGPRA?) with relationship building, restitution, and authentic storytelling.
This four-week course uses case studies, literature, media, and discussion to delve into the possibilities, complications, and practice of repatriation beyond NAGPRA.
Join us beginning February 3, 2025 for the 4 week course Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections.The process of securing the collection and making it accessible needs the mindset of a collections manager as well as the one of a project manager. This course helps you to get a grip on your unmanaged collection by developing a plan to tackle it, defining achievable goals by creating logical exits and finding ways to keep the project going even if you are limited in time, staff and money. The course textbook, Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections, will be supplemented by a variety of readings and assignments.