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Elizabeth Merritt

Human bones, stolen art: Smithsonian tackles its 'problem' collections - The Washington... - 0 views

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repatriation collections benin collections policy

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  • a new collections policy that requires Smithsonian museums to collaborate with the communities represented by their holdings and to return or share ownership of items that might have been previously stolen or acquired under duress.
  • The policy requires human remains “be treated with dignity and respect, as those once living, and not objectified as a scientific resource.”
  • As Smithsonian officials celebrated the deaccessioning of works held by its African Art museum, they ignored another 21 Benin sculptures in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History
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  • One floor above the African exhibit, which opened in 1999, the bones of Robert Kennicott, the famed Smithsonian explorer who once lived in the Castle, are on view.
Paul Spitzzeri

Collections for the future | Museums Association - 1 views

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collections future museums CAMLF exhibition loans deaccessioning disposal

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  • Paul Spitzzeri on 08 Jun 12
     
    A 2005 report that does not appear to have a specific long-term focus (as in the future to 2030) but broadly outlines ideas for the "future." Still, this UK association does discuss ideas for improving the management, generally speaking, of museum collections.
Paul Spitzzeri

Saving Collections - 0 views

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collections climate change CAMLF museum

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    the future of museum collections and climate change
Paul Spitzzeri

Center for the Future of Museums: Challenging Assumptions--Why Not Sell the Collections? - 0 views

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collections CAMLF budgets donations

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    Article on selling collections to raise funds in touch economic times
Paul Spitzzeri

Open Objects: Thoughts towards the future of museums for #kulturwebb - 0 views

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objects museums programming crowdsourcing collections management CAMLF

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  • Paul Spitzzeri on 22 Mar 12
     
    Blog post musing on the concept of "crowdsourcing" and museum programming--application to collections management implied?
Paul Spitzzeri

About | Museums Association - 0 views

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CAMLF museums future collections sustainability

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  • Paul Spitzzeri on 29 May 12
     
    A British initiative for planning where UK museums should be in 2020 regarding both sustainability and collections. A discussion paper is slated for issue this summer.
Johanna Fassbender

Getty Museums To Cut 34 Staff Jobs | UCIRA - 3 views

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CAMLF museums staff Education collections

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  • Johanna Fassbender on 15 Jun 12
     
    Is there a trend reversal going on? From focus on Education back to Collections?
Elizabeth Merritt

How Germany Changed Its Mind, and Gave Benin Bronzes Back to Nigeria - The New York Times - 4 views

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repatriation voluntary repatriation benin germany

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  • by a changing social consensus about the ethics of holding on to such items, and further strengthened by a backlash against Germany’s flagship cultural project: the Humboldt Forum,
  • Germany’s approach also contrasts with those of the United States and British governments, which have left decisions up to individual institutions
  • some of the most important museums in England cannot return their Benin Bronzes, even if they wanted to, without a change in the law. That includes the British Museum, which owns about 900 of the artifacts, arguably the world’s finest collection.
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  • a key turning point there occurred in 2019, amid growing public pressure.
  • a rising awareness in Germany of its own colonial crimes — including the killing of tens of thousands of Nama and Herero people in what is now Namibia. The atrocity, carried out between 1904 and 1908, is widely seen as the first genocide of the 20th century.
  • Until then, the main vehicle for discussing the return of the Benin Bronzes had been the Benin Dialogue Group, a network founded in 2010 that brought together Nigerian representatives and figures from European museums with bronzes in their collections. The group, however, favored loans over transfers of ownership.
  • The agreement stipulated that all objects that had been obtained “unethically” would be liable for return and directed institutions to facilitate claims by producing publicly available inventories.
  • obstacles remained on the Nigerian side. Although the country had requested the return of the bronzes since the 1970s, there was conflict over who would take ownership of the artifacts. Both the Nigerian government and the oba of Benin, whose family ruled the historical Kingdom of Benin from which they were looted, claimed that they owned the items. Godwin Obaseki, the governor of Edo State, where Benin City is, said he acted as a facilitator to resolve the dispute.
  • Ultimately, he said, the oba’s family, Nigeria’s museum commission and the government of Edo State agreed to join a trust together, with independent directors that oversee the construction and operation of the new museum.
  • the agreement allows for 168 pieces chosen by Nigeria’s museum commission to remain in Germany “so that Benin’s art can be shown to the world.” The approximately 350 other bronzes that were part of the Berlin museum collections will be transported to Nigeria once the pavilion is completed.
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  • It remains unclear who will pay for the shipment and insurance of the remaining items in Germany, and he noted that the bronzes’ storage and upkeep will come at a considerable cost, including electrical bills for climate control.
  • Elizabeth Merritt on 21 Dec 22
     
    The foreign minister's trip is the culmination of a yearslong process that upended Germany's approach to handling cultural items unjustly obtained during the colonial period. It is also part of a pioneering model for large-scale restitution, in which ownership is swapped before any artifacts change hands. Crucially, that approach allows for items to be restituted even if the country of origin does not yet have the facilities to store and exhibit them.
Ruth Cuadra

How the Internet of Things will transform building management - 0 views

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CAMLF technology environment green buildings

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  • Ruth Cuadra on 04 Apr 13
     
    Intelligent sensors collect information about operating conditions combined with analytics software will help facility managers become far more proactive about managing buildings at peak efficiency
Ruth Cuadra

Window Socket - Solar Energy Powered Socket - 1 views

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CAMLF energy technology design solar

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    the plug just attaches to any window and collects solar energy
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    I love this!
Ruth Cuadra

Linking libraries, museums, archives | Harvard Gazette - 1 views

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CAMLF LAM linking libraries museums archives technology

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  • Ruth Cuadra on 10 Apr 12
     
    Integration is happening on the technical side to provide seamless access to information no matter what format or under whose domain it might fall. Can integration be achieved -- or should it -- among the audiences of these different but related types of institutions/collections?
Ruth Cuadra

Why blunting emotion can save you money - 0 views

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CAMLF psychology value rewards

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  • Ruth Cuadra on 15 Jul 13
     
    Scientists have discovered that your feelings about something and the value you put on it are calculated similarly in a specific brain region. If this is true for individuals, could also be true for organizations (i.e., collections of individuals)?
Ruth Cuadra

Reflection vs. Collection: A New Report Looks at the Effect of Picture-Taking on Rememb... - 0 views

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CAMLF memory photography

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  • Ruth Cuadra on 12 Dec 13
     
    1. Participants were less accurate in recognizing the objects they had photographed compared to those they had only observed 2. Participants weren't able to answer as many questions about the objects' visual details for those objects they had photographed
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