Collections Stewardship

Champagne Dreams, Beer Budget: Innovative Solutions For Packing and Shipping Museum Collections

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Whether you are a small museum with limited resources, or a large museum with the ability to spend funds on top notch care, there are ways you can partner together for the benefit of your entire community. But money and bureaucracy can sometimes get in the way of partnerships that are mutually beneficial. Lets discuss some creative work arounds! This panel discussion will break down innovative and cost effective strategies and ideas for the care, handling and transport of collections for museums operating with limited resources. Discussions will focus on issues of sustainability in packing and shipping collections as well as practical solutions for collections care and transport.

Learning Objectives:

• Undertake steps to use sustainable solutions such as green crating when packing and shipping museum collection for exhibitition or museum collections consevation.
• Describe practical and cost-saving measures when caring for collections particularly as it relates to packing, shipping and art transport.
• List and define sustainable and cost saving solutions for the care and handling of museum collections.

Panelist(s)

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  Allison Dixon

  Registration Specialist
  Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian
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  Kimberly Robinson

  Museum Curator
  National Park Service