Have Gloves Will Travel brings Professional Museum Consultant Services to Minnesota Museums, Historical & Cultural Societies and Private Collectors.
SERVICES:
Contractor Services for Minnesota Historical & Cultural Heritage Grant projects, especially in the areas of collections management policies & procedures, collections surveys, registration, inventories, cataloging and rehousing collections artifacts.
Professional Collections Management Concierge Services: White-glove, special, personal and attentive retainer-based service addressing the wishes and needs of small museums and private collectors with limited or no professional museum staff. Includes organizing, arranging, managing collections, inventorying, cataloging, solving numbering problems, answering questions, providing resources and advising.
Professional Collections Management Concierge Services: White-glove, special, personal and attentive retainer-based service addressing the wishes and needs of small museums and private collectors with limited or no professional museum staff. Includes organizing, arranging, managing collections, inventorying, cataloging, solving numbering problems, answering questions, providing resources and advising.
Oh No! Ethobotany: The safe handling and storage of potentially
hazardous materials.• Cultural sensitivity to and understanding of day-to-day challenges
facing small museums and historical societies managed by volunteer and part-time staff • Inventory
& Cataloging • Museum collection database management (esp. PastPerfect 5.0 and web-based Collector Systems) • Conditions
assessments • Resourcefulness with a focus
on details • Taking the initiative to study discrete collections • Respectful of
cultural and intrinsic objects • Expert object packing and handling • Accession,
deaccession and loan procedures • Policy, Procedure &
Process Development • accessionPad™
EXPERTISE: History & Science research; Collections Surveys; Facilitating the Development & Writing of Collections Policies and Procedures; Development of phased plans for 1st time inventories; Inventories & Cataloging; Guiding volunteer-led museums to understand and adopt museum standards and best practices in collections care; Identifying and solving numbering and registration problems; Collaborating with staff and outside experts to strategize and solve challenges; Providing guidance, workshops & training on the care of collections; Knowledge of digital solutions and software training; To assist and inspire!
EXPERTISE: History & Science research; Collections Surveys; Facilitating the Development & Writing of Collections Policies and Procedures; Development of phased plans for 1st time inventories; Inventories & Cataloging; Guiding volunteer-led museums to understand and adopt museum standards and best practices in collections care; Identifying and solving numbering and registration problems; Collaborating with staff and outside experts to strategize and solve challenges; Providing guidance, workshops & training on the care of collections; Knowledge of digital solutions and software training; To assist and inspire!
EXPERIENCE & PROJECTS:
- Prospect House and Civil War Museum 2019
- Brown County Historical Society 2019
- Edina Morningside Community Church Archives 2018-2019
- Polish Kashubian Cultural Institute and Museum of Winona 2012-2019
- Roseville Historical Society 2018
- City of Afton Historical Society 2010-2018
- City of Centerville Dupre Collection 2017-2018
- Pine County Historical Society 2014-2019
- City of Afton Historical Society 2010-2018
- Glensheen Historic House Museum 2014.
- Minnesota Historical Society (Associate Registrar) 2002-2009. (Historic Sites Registrar for: Alexander Ramsey House, Historic Fort Snelling, James J Hill House, Mill City Museum, Mille Lacs Indian Museum & Trading Post, Minnehaha Depot, Minnesota State Capitol, Minnesota Governor’s Residence, Sibley Historic Site, Split Rock Lighthouse 2002-2009.
- Meeker County Historical Society 2010
- GAR Civil War Hall & Museum, Litchfield 2011
- Travel Registrar: Minnesota Historical Society's traveling exhibition, "Ben Franklin, In Search of a Better World" 2011-2012
- Minnesota Museum of American Art 2010-2011
- Peta Wakan Tipi: Dream of Wild Health 2002
- Science Museum of Minnesota 1998-2002; Museum Associate 2003-present
