Lindsey Richardson, Curator of Collections, The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza houses a unique cultural collection of more than 50,000 objects related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Located on the sixth floor of the former Texas School Book Depository Building in Dealey Plaza, the museum pays homage [...]
A Guide to Creating a Digital Content Strategy for Your Museum or Institution
Digital Content Strategies have become a popular topic among institutions, with many museums developing and even posting these strategies, aiming to stay accountable to their audiences. Open publishing allows museums to share details with their public, serving them and the museum mission [...]
A Museum-Led Webinar by Farris Wahbeh, the Benjamin and Irma Weiss Director of Research Resources
The Whitney Museum of American Art has a long history of presenting important performance art, both in their collection and through the Whitney Biennial. Farris Wahbeh, the Benjamin and Irma Weiss Director of Research Resources [...]
Take a Closer Look at Our Collections Data Auditing Software
Audit Manager is a powerful browser-based application that monitors changes to your enterprise information, allowing you to maintain a trail of alterations to your data over time. Audit Manager tracks changes made in the TMS Suite [...]
Meet Our Powerful Digital Asset Management System
Gallery Systems is pleased to announce the release of TMS Media Studio. Media Studio is a powerful Digital Asset Management (DAM) system that uses the same database as The Museum System (TMS), the world’s leading collections management solution [...]
Barcoding Best Practices When Moving House
Opened in 1963, the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway, is dedicated to the life and work of expressionist pioneer Edvard Munch. The museum maintains the most comprehensive collection of works by Munch, including approximately 1,100 paintings, 7,000 drawings, and 18,000 prints [...]
Conserving the Un-Conservable with Christian Scheidemann
With the introduction of unstable materials into the construction of contemporary art, conservators face a completely new set of challenges. How does one protect and stabilize an object that, by nature, is meant to decompose? [...]
Los Angeles, CA | December 4-8, 2017
Mark your calendar and secure your funding: Collective Imagination 2017, the international TMS user conference, will be held in Los Angeles, California, at the Omni Hotel at California Plaza. Conference workshops take place on December 4 and 5, followed by the main conference from December 6 to 8, 2017 [...]
Cataloguing a Museum without Walls
Chapman University Art Collections is a unique group of collections that functions through the lens of education and consists of the Phyllis & Ross Escalette Permanent Collection of Art, the Chapman Campus Collection, and the new Hilbert Museum of California Art [...]
A Museum-Led Webinar by the Registrar Department of The Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) collection of time-based media arts (TBMA) increases every year in number and complexity. Objects range from 16mm films and vintage electronic installations to digital videos, software-based artworks and video games [...]
