Professional Development
The following resources have been collected by the Educational Resources Committee.
Books | Online Glossaries
Books
- A Companion to Museum Studies 2011 Sharon Macdonald (opens in a new window)
- A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections, Third Edition 2012 Marie C. Malaro (opens in a new window)
- Art and Its Publics: Museum Studies at the Millennium 2003 Andrew McClellan (opens in a new window)
- Art Law: A Concise Guide for Artists, Curators, and Art Educators 2016 Michael Jones (opens in a new window)
- Caring for American Indian Objects: A Practical and Cultural Guide 2004 Sherelyn Ogden (opens in a new window)
- Conservation Concerns: A Guide for Collectors and Curators 2012 Konstanze Bachmann (opens in a new window)
- Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums 2012 Amy Lonetree (opens in a new window)
- Exhibit Makeovers: A Do-It-Yourself Workbook for Small Museums 2017 Alice Parman, Ann Craig, et al. (opens in a new window)
- Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience 2009 John H Falk (opens in a new window)
- Is It Ours?: Art, Copyright, and Public Interest 2021 Martha Buskirk (opens in a new window)
- Law and Art: Justice, Ethics and Aesthetics 2011 Oren Ben-Dor (opens in a new window)
- Learning from Museums: Visitor Experiences and the Making of Meaning (American Association for State and Local History) 2000 John H. Falk and Lynn D. Dierking (opens in a new window)
- Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections: A Practical Guide for Museums 2016 Angela Kipp (opens in a new window)
- Museum Collections Management: A Handbook 2011 Freda Matassa (opens in a new window)
- Museum Governance. Mission, Ethics, Policy 1994 Marie C. Malaro (opens in a new window)
- Museum Registration Methods (American Alliance of Museums) 6th Edition 2020 John E. Simmons and Toni M. Kiser (opens in a new window)
- New Collecting: Exhibiting and Audiences after New Media Art 2016 Beryl Graham (opens in a new window)
- On the Road Again: Developing and Managing Traveling Exhibitions (American Alliance of Museums) 2020 Rebecca Buck, Jean Gilmore, et al. (opens in a new window)
- Reinventing the Museum: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Paradigm Shift 2004 Gail Anderson (opens in a new window)
- The AAM Guide to Collections Planning 2004 James B. Gardner and Elizabeth E. Merritt (opens in a new window)
- The Art Museum in Modern Times 2021 Charles Saumarez Smith (opens in a new window)
- The Comprehensive Guide to NFTs, Digital Artwork, and Blockchain Technology 2021 Marc Beckman (opens in a new window)
- The Ethics of Collecting Cultural Property: Whose Culture? Whose Property? 1999 Phyllis Mauch Messenger and Brian Fagan (opens in a new window)
- Things Great and Small: Collections Management Policies (American Alliance of Museums) 2017 John E. Simmons (opens in a new window)
- Virtual Memory: Time-Based Art and the Dream of Digitality 2015 Homay King (opens in a new window)
- Visual Arts and the Law: A Handbook for Professionals (Handbooks in International Art Business) 2013 Judith B. Prowda (opens in a new window)
- Registration Methods for the Small Museum (American Association for State and Local History) Fifth Edition 2017 Daniel B. Reibel and revised by Deborah Rose Van Horn (opens in a new window)
Online Glossaries
- Canadian Conservation Institute - Care of objects and collections (opens in a new window)
- The Fine Arts Conservancy - Glossary for Works on Paper (opens in a new window)
- Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material - Visual Glossary (opens in a new window)
- Foundation for Advancement in Conservation - Connecting to Collections Care (opens in a new window)
- NPS Museum Handbook, Part I: Museum Collections (opens in a new window)
- PACCIN - Preparation, Art Handling, Collections Care Network (opens in a new window)
- School for Adavnced Research - Standards for Museums with Native American Collections (opens in a new window)
- Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute (MCI) (opens in a new window)
- MetPublications - The Care and Handling of Art Objects (opens in a new window)
- MuseumPests (opens in a new window)
- The Sustainable Heritage Network (SHN) (opens in a new window)
- Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts, Philadelphia (opens in a new window)
- Midwest Art Conservation Center (opens in a new window)
- NPS Conserve O Grams (opens in a new window)
- Condition Glossary for Works on Paper (opens in a new window)
- Condition Glossary for Paintings (opens in a new window)
- W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy) (opens in a new window)
- MET publications (opens in a new window)
- Society of American Archivists - Resources and Toolkits (opens in a new window)
- Visual Resources Association (opens in a new window)
- Graphics Atlas (opens in a new window)
