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PERPETUAL MUSEUM ISSUES:
An Insider’s Essays 1987 – Now
By: Steven Miller
Museums enjoy considerable media attention. Much is pleasant. But coverage can also be about difficulties. Major controversies can erupt at a moment’s notice. Oddly, most are brought to the public’s attention by museum outsiders. Perpetual Museum Issues: An Insider’s Essays 1987 – Now is an exception. It offers one practitioner’s perspectives on a host of issues. Steven Miller has decades of museum experience as a curator, director, consultant, and trustee.
The content presents warnings he gave to the field that continue to be relevant. Topics discussed touch on personnel matters, exhibitions, collections, governance, along with inclusion, equity, and diversity practices. Definitions of community and mission are explored along with debates about collecting and how to explain public trust duties for what museums own. The highly controversial practice of removing collections is analyzed. Known in the trade as deaccessioning, the author is a specialist in the subject.
About The Author
Miller holds a BA in sculpture (with honors) from Bard College and a graduate certificate in the principles of conservation science from the Centre for the Study of the Conservation and Preservation o…
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Perpetual Museum Issues presents controversies museums face as experienced by an insider. The author exposes a private world to rare and unparalleled public attention.
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ISBN 13 (SOFT): 9781665791489
ISBN 13 (eBook): 9781665791496
