Artnet

As Museums Desperately Try to Diversify Their Collections, They Now Face Another Problem: How to Pay for It in a Financial Crisis

In recent years, the public has increasingly scrutinized museum collections that disproportionately represent dead white male artists—a process that was accelerated radically in 2020 after a ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Interested in Using Museum Collections to Better Understand Freshwater Mussels? There’s Now an App for That

A new online resource combines data from 45 different natural history collections to provide easy-to-use information on America’s threatened freshwater mussels Jack Tamisiea The National Museum of ...
Salon

Neglect of a museum’s collection could cause scientific setbacks

This article originally appeared on Undark. In a dusty room in central Florida, countless millipedes, centipedes, and other creepy-crawlies sit in specimen jars, rotting. The invertebrates are part of ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Brazil Lost 80 Percent of Its National Museum Collection in One Night. Here’s How It’s Fighting to Rebuild

Ever since a 2018 blaze destroyed priceless artifacts and scientifically important specimens, museum staff have devoted ...
Hyperallergic

Mapping a Museum's Collection with Memory

Hughen/Starkweather, “Re:depiction” at the Asian Art Museum (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) SAN FRANCISCO — “The rhino looks like it has a terrible skin disease,” said Jay Xu, director of ...
The Conversation

Museums have tons of data, and AI could make it more accessible − but standardizing and organizing it across fields won’t be easy

Ice cores in freezers, dinosaurs on display, fish in jars, birds in boxes, human remains and ancient artifacts from long gone civilizations that few people ever see – museum collections are filled ...
Purdue University

Museum Curator

Museum curators oversee museum collections by managing the acquisition, preservation and display of museum artifacts. They may conduct instructional, research, or public service activities of ...
insider.si.edu

Active collections / edited by Elizabeth Wood, Rainey Tisdale and Trevor Jones

Foreword / by Jim Vaughn -- Introduction / Trevor Jones, Rainey Tisdale, and Elizabeth Wood -- A manifesto for active history museum collections / Trevor Jones and Rainey Tisdale -- Conceptual ...
Hyperallergic

Images of 100,000 Artworks From Paris Museum Collections Now Freely Available to the Public

Pierre Bonnard, “Nu dans le bain” (1936), oil on canvas, from the collection of the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, an image now available as Open Access (CC0 Paris Musées / Musée d’art ...
Artnet

Museums Are Urgently Collecting Homemade Masks and Other Ephemera From the Coronavirus Pandemic to Document History as It Unfolds

As the coronavirus pandemic sweeps the globe, non-essential businesses have shuttered and most people are forced to self-isolate at home. But as many of our minds are focused on how to fight the ...
Observer

L.A. Museums Are Rethinking the Rules of Art Ownership. Will Others Follow?

Museums continue to collect art, but most of it sits in storage indefinitely. A new model in Los Angeles is challenging the idea that art ownership must mean exclusivity. RBL/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images ...