Collections and Deaccessioning in a Post-Pandemic World

Collections and Deaccessioning in a Post-Pandemic World

Conversations with Museum Directors is about far more than the deaccessioning of museum and gallery collections. It's about how museums will be - must be - different after Covid-19. About a transformed environment, both social and financial, and museums' total response to it. In a changed and charged reality, deaccessioning is one element of a future in which issues of social justice, inequality, race, pay and decolonisation will impact collections as never before.

It is part of a major new 950-page resource which draws on the experience and thinking of some of the world's most experienced and respected museum and gallery professionals, with a Foreword by Melody Kanschat and Antoniette M Guglielmo of the Museum Leadership Institute.

Contributors include:

• Christine Anagnos | Director, AAMD
• Christopher Bedford | Director, Baltimore Museum of Art
• Thomas Campbell | Director, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco• Michael Conforti | Former Director, Clark Art Institute
• Adrian Ellis | Director, AEA Consulting
• Kaywin Feldman | Director, National Gallery of Art
• Linda Harrison | Director, Newark Museum Art
• Glenn Lowry | Director, MoMA 

The three volumes in the collection (available separately) are:

1. Conversations with Museum Directors (this book)
2. Towards a New Reality
3. Case Studies