Have Gloves Will Travel brings Professional Contract Museum Registrar and Collections Management Services to Private Collectors, Museums, and Historical Societies. 


SERVICES: 

Contractor Services in the Midwest, with a focus on Minnesota Historical & Cultural Heritage Grant projects, especially in the areas of collections management policies & procedures development, collections surveys, registration, inventory plans, cataloging, collections storage plans, and rehousing collections artifacts.

SPECIALTIES: 

Oh No! Ethnobotany: The safe handling and storage of potentially hazardous materials.• Registration for Exhibitions and Loans • 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 (PastPerfect 5.0, web-based Collector Systems) • Conditions assessments •  Resourcefulness with a focus on details • Taking the initiative to study discrete collections • Respectful of culturally sensitive objects • Expert object packing and handling • Accession, deaccession and loan procedures • Policy, Procedure & Process Development 

 EXPERTISE: Registrar for Exhibitions & Loans; Collection Storage Plans; Collections Surveys; Facilitating the Development of Collections Policies and Procedures; 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.

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