On Tuesday, October 22 at 3 PM (EST), our next Coffee Gathering will focus on the process of creating Collection Plans in academic art museums. Through a series of questions, we will explore who should be involved in creating a Collection Plan, what information it should provide, and who it should serve. In discussing these topics, we hope to have related conversations about the challenges and opportunities creating a Collection Plan can provide staff and institutions.
This topic has emerged from the curious lack of publicly available collection plan examples. We hope to provide colleagues in academic art museums the opportunity to connect and share their experiences with writing collection plans.
Questions we will discuss during the Coffee Gathering include:
- What sections should be included in a collection plan?
- How does the collection plan integrate others, such as the university’s strategic plan, interpretive plan, and/or collections management policy?
- Who should be involved in creating the document?
- How might an academic art museum include their various communities in the process?
- With colleagues in your museums, how do you successfully have conversations on how to limit or focus a collection, especially at an encyclopedic museum?
- How might this document be helpful for donors?
- Do you share your collection plan publicly?
- How often do you revisit and revise your collection plan?
To RSVP to this coffee gathering, please email RAAMP Project Assistant, Olivia Knauss, at oknauss@collegeart.org.
Our Coffee Gatherings are hosted on Skype for Business. Please download the application prior to participating. All participants who have RSVP’d will receive via email a link in advance to attend the session. Once you receive the link, you may join the conversation to test the application. Please use this same link when you are ready to join the scheduled date and time for the Coffee Gathering.
Please note the Coffee Gatherings are recorded and uploaded for future viewing.
We kindly request that you turn off your microphone during the conversation; however, you may keep your camera on if you wish.