Things Great and Small: Collections Management Policies

Collections care is a core responsibility for all museums that own, care for, or use collections. The foundation stone for good collections care is a good collections management policy. Things Great and Small is the first to comprehensively address how to write such a policy for any type of museum. Drawing on his extensive experience – as director of the University of Kansas museum studies program, collections manager at the university’s museum of natural history, and surveyor for AAM’s Museum Assessment Program – John Simmons reviews the issues that a collections management policy should address and the pros and cons of choosing one policy option over another.