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Richard McCoy's talk from Ignite MCN at MCN2012.
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Making Fresh Connection to
Collections Care
Richard McCoy• Conservator of Objects &
Variable Art @imamuseum• Program Committee Member
@INCCA_NA
Conservators Are Probably The Coolest People in
Museums
How About Collections Care?And a Lot of People Do it
• Conservators• Curators• Registrars• Collections Managers• Technologists• Installers• Designers• Collectors
Why is Collections Care Important for Museums?
What’s Unique About Collections Care Professionals?
• We are very good at sharing information and working together to solve our daily problems
• We’ve been doing it for years and years and years …
DistLists are our Tools
Sometimes We’re a Bit Shy to Share Our Information
Openly & Widely
But It’s Not Our Fault, It’s Also Yours!
The Current Solutions Just Make it More Work for Us, and Everyone
It Can be Hard to Make Collections Care Sexy
Museum Professionals Aren’t Well Allied
Let’s Start Building Projects for the Collections Care
Community That Force us to Work Together All the Time,
Socially
Dr. Anne-Imelda Radice:
“Caring for objects must be made an intrinsic component of the entire collecting ethos.”
Easy and Open Sharing will Help us Care
Cultural Heritage is Getting More Complex So We Need
to Start Now!
Let’s Make International Cultural Heritage Conventions Where all
Associations Meet at Once
We Need Big Help With Documentation Issues!
What if Conservation Documentation was as Easy and Integrated as Instagram?
Help us to engage deeply with the right audiences, and create new communities that
are more than fans of our museums on Facebook
Thank You!
Richard McCoy (@RichardMcCoy)
• Conservator of Objects & Variable Art @imamuseum
• Program Committee Member @INCCA_NA