Making Fresh Connection to

Collections Care

Richard McCoy• Conservator of Objects &

Variable Art @imamuseum• Program Committee Member

@INCCA_NA

Conservators Are Probably The Coolest People in

Museums

How About Collections Care?And a Lot of People Do it

• Conservators• Curators• Registrars• Collections Managers• Technologists• Installers• Designers• Collectors

Why is Collections Care Important for Museums?

What’s Unique About Collections Care Professionals?

• We are very good at sharing information and working together to solve our daily problems

• We’ve been doing it for years and years and years …

DistLists are our Tools

Sometimes We’re a Bit Shy to Share Our Information

Openly & Widely

But It’s Not Our Fault, It’s Also Yours!

The Current Solutions Just Make it More Work for Us, and Everyone

It Can be Hard to Make Collections Care Sexy

Museum Professionals Aren’t Well Allied

Let’s Start Building Projects for the Collections Care

Community That Force us to Work Together All the Time,

Socially

Dr. Anne-Imelda Radice:

“Caring for objects must be made an intrinsic component of the entire collecting ethos.”

Easy and Open Sharing will Help us Care

Cultural Heritage is Getting More Complex So We Need

to Start Now!

Let’s Make International Cultural Heritage Conventions Where all

Associations Meet at Once

We Need Big Help With Documentation Issues!

What if Conservation Documentation was as Easy and Integrated as Instagram?

Help us to engage deeply with the right audiences, and create new communities that

are more than fans of our museums on Facebook

Thank You!

Richard McCoy (@RichardMcCoy)

• Conservator of Objects & Variable Art @imamuseum

• Program Committee Member @INCCA_NA