TY  - BOOK
AU  - Malaro,Marie C
AU  - DeAngelis,Ildiko Pogány
TI  - A legal primer on managing museum collections
SN  - 9781588343222 (pbk.)
U1  - 344.73/093 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - Smithsonian Books
KW  - Museums
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - United States
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part 1. The museum. What is a museum? What is required of its board members? ; Museums are accountable to whom? -- Part 2. The collection. Collection management policies ; The acquisition of objects : accessioning ; The disposal of objects : deaccessioning ; Loans : incoming and outgoing ; Unclaimed loans ; International loans ; Objects left in the temporary custody of the museum ; Objects found in the collection ; Promised gifts ; Tax considerations ; Appraisals and authentications ; Care of collections ; Insurance ; Access to the collections ; Visitor and employee safety as it relates to collections -- Appendix A. Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export, and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, adopted by the General Conference, UNESCO, at its sixteenth session, Paris, November 14, 1970 -- Appendix B. Title III of Public Law 97-446 : Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act -- Appendix C. Curation of federally owned and administered archaeological collections
N2  - "Hailed when it was first published in 1985 as the bible of U.S. collections management, A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections offers the only comprehensive discussion of the legal questions faced by museums regarding collections. This revised and expanded third edition addresses the many legal developments--including a comprehensive discussion of stolen art and the international movement of cultural property, recent developments in copyright, and the effects of burgeoning electronic uses--that have occurred during the past twenty-five years. An authorative, go-to book for any museum professional, Legal Primer offers detailed explanations of the law, suggestions for preventing legal problems, and numerous case studies of lawsuits involving museum collections"--; "A comprehensive and updated discussion of the legal questions faced by museums as they acquire, use, and refine their collections"--
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