Have Gloves Will Travel brings Professional Museum Collections Management and Registrar Services to Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, South Dakota Museums, Historical & Cultural Societies and Private Collectors.
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, collections surveys, registration, inventories, cataloging, collections storage plans, and rehousing collections artifacts.
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 (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: Registrar for Exhibitions & Loans; Collection Storage Plans; Collections Surveys; Facilitating the Development & Writing of Collections Policies and Procedures; Inventories & Cataloging; History & Science research; 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:
- Sacred Heart Area Historical Society. 2024 (Collections Storage Plan)
- Minnesota Historical Society 2023 (Interim Registrar for Exhibitions & Loans)
- Ernest C Oberholtzer Foundation 2023 (Collection Storage Plan)
- The Tweed Museum of Art 2022 (Collection Survey, Inventory Plan)
- Minnesota Historical Society 2022 (Interim Registrar for Exhibitions & Loans)
- North Hennepin Community College 2022 (Collection Survey, Collection Management Plan)
- Twin City Model Railroad Museum 2021 (Collection Storage Plan)
- Red Lake Nation College Tribal Archives 2021 (Collection Survey, Development of Collection Management Policies and Procedures)
- Gunflint Trail Historical Society 2021 (Archival Collections Inventory/Cataloging)
- Nobles County Historical Society 2021 (Collection Storage Plan)
- Prospect House and Civil War Museum 2019 (Collection Survey, Collection Management Plan)
- Brown County Historical Society 2019 (Collection Survey, Collection Management Plan)
- Edina Morningside Community Church Archives 2018-2021 (Collection Survey, Collection Management Plan)
- Polish Kashubian Cultural Institute and Museum of Winona 2012-2021 (Collection Survey, Collection Management Plan, Inventory Plan, Inventory/Cataloging)
- Roseville Historical Society 2018 (Storage Plan/Rehousing Artifacts)
- Afton Historical Society 2010-2018 (Collection Survey, Collection Inventory Plan)
- City of Centerville Dupre Collection 2017-2018 (Inventory/Cataloging Artifacts)
- Pine County Historical Society 2014-2021 (Collection Survey, Inventory Plan)
- Glensheen Historic House Museum 2014. (Inventory/Cataloging)
- Minnesota Historical Society Associate Registrar 2002-2009 (Incoming/Outgoing Loans)
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 - Meeker County Historical Society 2010 (Collection Survey, Collection Inventory Plan)
- 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 (Inventory Plan)
- Dream of Wild Health (Peta Wakan Tipi) 2002 (Cataloging Native seeds)
- Science Museum of Minnesota 1998-2002 (Ethnographic Collection Technician); Museum Associate 2003-present (Ethnographic Collections Assistant, "Oh No! Ethnobotany" R&D)