Collections and Deaccessioning: Case Studies is about far more than the deaccessioning of museum and gallery collections. It's about how museums will be - must be - different after Covid-19. About a transformed environment, both social and financial, and museums' total response to it. In a changed and charged reality, deaccessioning is one element of a future in which issues of social justice, inequality, race, pay and decolonisation will impact collections as never before.
It is part of a major new 950-page resource which draws on the experience and thinking of some of the world's most experienced and respected museum and gallery professionals, with a Foreword by Melody Kanschat and Antoniette M Guglielmo of the Museum Leadership Institute.
The three volumes in the collection (available separately) are:
- Conversations with Museum Directors
- Towards a New Reality
- Case Studies
Contents include:
SURVIVAL
1. Reflections on Deaccessioning Braque's Music from The Phillips Collection
2. Much Ado About Shrimps: Everhart Museum Deaccessioning
3. Randolph College: Act Three
4. Financial Stability vs. Donor Restrictions: Fisk University
5. Financing the Past and Finding the Future: Delaware Art Museum
6. What Matters Most: Building the Future of the Berkshire Museum
REINVENTION
7. The Shuttering of Philadelphia's Attic
8. The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Detroit Institute of Arts
9. Sparking Institutional Change: Deaccessioning at The Baltimore Museum of Art
10. Picture Perfect: Everson Museum of Art
