Museums and public value – creating sustainable futures

2013

Historical perspectives on preventive conservation: readings in conservation

2013

The book is a sixth volume of the Readings in Conservation series by the Getty Conservation Institute. The first volume, Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage...

Poisto museokokoelmasta : museologinen arvokeskustelu kokoelmanhallinnan määrittäjänä

2016

This dissertation studies the issue of disposal in Finnish art museums. It is a research in the field of museology, in which museography plays a significant role. The field of museology functions as a science bridging theory and practice. In the research, museum collection management is divided into seven areas: acquisition, inventory, condition assessment, value assessment, conservation, upkeep and disposal. It is essential that collection management be viewed as a unified chain of operations, starting from acquisition and ending in disposal. This creates a bridge from the start of collection management to its end procedures, at which point the total disposal of an item is a possibility. A…