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Museums enjoy considerable media attention. Much is pleasant. But coverage can also be about difficulties. Major controversies can erupt at a moment’s notice. Oddly, most are brought to the public’s attention by museum outsiders. PERPETUAL MUSEUM ISSUES: An Insider’s Essays 1987 – Now is an exception. It offers one practitioner’s perspectives on a host of issues. Steven Miller has decades of museum experience as a curator, director, consultant, and trustee. The content presents warnings he gave to the field that continue to be relevant. Topics discussed touch on personnel matters, exhibitions, collections, governance, along with inclusion, equity, and diversity practices. Definitions of community and mission are explored along with debates about collecting and how to explain public trust duties for what museums own. The highly controversial practice of removing collections is analyzed. Known in the trade as deaccessioning, the author is a specialist in the subject.
About the author
Miller holds a BA in sculpture (with honors) from Bard College and a graduate certificate in the principles of conservation science from the Centre for the Study of the Conservation and Preservation of Cultural Property, Rome, Italy. He has worked in six distinguished museums in the northeastern Unites States. His five previous books cover museum operational subjects in depth. He has taught graduate museum studies in several colleges and universities. Notably for sixteen years as an adjunct professor with the MA Program in Museum Professions at Seton Hall University in South Orange, NJ.
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