With some 280,000 objects, the Harvard Art Museum is the largest university art museum in the United States. This first handbook of the collections surveys thei

Curators make many decisions when they build collections or design exhibitions, plotting a passage of discovery that also tells an essential story. Collecting c

Providing a distillation of knowledge in the various disciplines of arts education (dance, drama, music, literature and poetry and visual arts), this essential

This landmark publication is the first to draw together all aspects of museum collections management in one handbook. It is designed for anyone with responsibil

The combined training and experience of the authors of this classic in the varied activities of painting conservation, cultural research, chemistry, physics, an