I have worked in museums for over 46-years and am very happy to share some of what I have learned or seen . Perhaps these will save you from “reinventing the wheel” as you face problems. These lessons can be of great use to collectors, because really, collectors and museums are doing the same thing, just that one is personal and the other is usually operated by a group. The two are sometimes one and the same. 

Museums do the following basics operations:

1. COLLECT

2. PRESERVE

3. RESEARCH

4. EXHIBIT

5. EDUCATE

Links to other pages of mine on museums:

About Museums (this page)

• Museum Lessons

  • Museums – Giving a Tour & Public Speaking

  • Continuity in Museums

  • The Two-Way Test for Museums

  • Inventory of a Museum Collection

  • Museum Loans

  • Museum Buildings

  • Museum Terminology

• Museums

  • Seaforth Highlanders of Canada Museum and Archives

  • 12 Service Battalion Museum

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