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Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections: A Practical Guide for Museums
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Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections: A Practical Guide for Museums Hardback - 2016

by Angela Kipp

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From the publisher

Managing previously unmanaged collections can be challenging. 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. The book is a step-by-step guide how to approach this situation, assuming that there's nothing to start with but a collection that has to be accessioned and the person who is assigned to do it. It is about how to bring order into the chaos, to define what is needed in terms of time, money, staff and material, to spot facility issues and potential dangers, and to use the power of networking to solve an otherwise unsolvable task.

Details

  • Title Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections: A Practical Guide for Museums
  • Author Angela Kipp
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 202
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Publication date 2016-05-19
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781442263475 / 1442263474
  • Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.63 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.60 cm)
  • Category Business / Economics / Finance
  • Library of Congress subjects Museums - Planning, Museums - Collection management
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2016011926
  • Dewey Decimal Code 069.068

About the author

Angela Kipp is the Collections Manager of the TECHNOSEUM in Mannheim, Germany and an independent museum consultant with a special focus on science, technology, farming and history collections. She holds the German Museum Studies degree of Diplom-Museologin (FH) and has worked in the museum field since 1998. She worked for various institutions including large museums like the Museum fr Kommunikation (museum for communication) in Berlin and the Deutsches Museum in Munich, as well as for many smaller museums and cultural projects. She specializes in logistics, project management and the adaption of technology for the special needs of museums.

She is especially interested in finding affordable ways to improve collections care in smaller institutions. One way she does that is through her blog project Registrar Trek, aimed at raising awareness for collections care in general and fostering exchange between collections specialists around the world. Another way is this book in which she gathered her own experiences and those of several colleagues to develop a framework for people confronted with a previously unmanaged, only partly managed or just neglected collection.

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