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, AAMDChristopher Bedford Director, Baltimore Museum of ArtThomas Campbell Director, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco- Michael Conforti Former Director, Clark Art InstituteAdrian Ellis Director, AEA ConsultingKaywin Feldman Director, National Gallery of ArtLinda Harrison Director, Newark Museum ArtGlenn Lowry Director, MoMAThe three volumes in the collection (available separately) are:
Conversations with Museum Directors (this book)Towards a New Reality Case Studies