Museum collecting lessons: acquisition stories from the inside / edited by Steven Miller. - Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY ; Routledge : Taylor & Francis Group, 2022. - xii., 156 pages : illustrations. 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.


Introduction; 1. Making Sense of Your Community Museum Collection: Strategies for Stuff Management; 2. Collecting our Culture: Eeyou Cree Collecting at Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute; 3. Strategies for Acquiring Contemporary Art: Creativity and Collaboration; 4. Collecting Period Rooms: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Francis W. Little House; 5. A New Museum Builds a Collection: How One Gift Leads to Others: The James A. Michener Museum of Art’s Acquisition Success; 6. A Museum-Defining Acquisition: The Murtogh D. Guinness Collection of Mechanical Musical Instruments and Automata, Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ; 7. Unpacking the Baggage: The Smooth Acquisition and Transfer of the Lee L. Forman Collection of Bags; 8. How We Got Our F-16 Fighter Falcon; 9. Community Collecting Conversations: Acquisition Stories, District Museum, Jorhat, India; 10. Collecting Nonverbal History Documents; 11. Barnum Brown’s Bones; 12. Conclusion


in English.

9781032106427 (pbk) 9781032106496 (hbk) 9781003216384 (ebk)


Museum--Collectors and collecting
Museum acquisitions.

M87 2022 / AM 133

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