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Rethinking the
Role of Collections
in your Museum
Trevor Jones
activecollections.org
Active
Collections
Let’s talk
about
Impact
www.activecollections.org
Rainey Tisdale Elee Wood Trevor Jones
Active Collections
A MANIFESTO FOR ACTIVE HISTORY MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
by Trevor Jones and Rainey Tisdale
Millions of artifacts in museum collections across the country are not actively
supporting the institutions that steward them. Museums of all types are experiencing
this problem, but it is particularly entrenched in history museums. Most history
museums possess thousands of poorly maintained, inadequately cataloged, and
underutilized artifacts. Instead of being active assets, these lazy artifacts drain vital
Are your artifacts lazy?
Tier your
Collections!
Nine Effective Practices
For Building Audiences
www.activecollections.org

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