Glasgow, UK | November 7-9, 2016
The Museums Association is pleased to welcome museum, collections, and heritage professionals to their upcoming session of the Museums Association’s Annual Conference and Exhibition. The meeting has grown to become the largest event of its kind in Europe, acting as a think-tank [...]
Providing Best Practices and Tools for Institutions with Film Collections
The International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) has published The FIAF Moving Image Cataloguing Manual, designed to help archivists working with moving images to navigate the technological advancements in cataloguing, preservation, and access practices [...]
Preserving, Cataloguing, and Sharing Rare Books with Collections Management Software
The Stark Museum of Art in Orange, Texas, was the vision of collectors H.J. Lutcher Stark and Nelda C. Stark. Opened in 1978, the Stark collection is focused on “the stunning land, dramatic people, and diverse wildlife of the American West.” Allison Evans, the Stark’s Collections Manager [...]
Acquire the Funding You Need to Showcase Your Collections Online
Digital engagement has changed the way audiences interact with institutions, and it’s now expected for museums to display their collection online. Digitizing objects for the web can be time-consuming and expensive [...]
Using Digitization to Quickly and Economically Showcase Objects Online
Less than 1% of the 138 million objects housed by the Smithsonian’s 19 different museums are on public display, with most of the collections hidden away in storage [...]
London, England | October 6, 2016
Museum-iD Magazine hosts their fifth annual Museum Ideas conference on October 6 at the Science Museum, London, IMAX Theatre. This year’s conference focuses on The Future of Museums in the Era of Participatory Culture [...]
Theresa Papanikolas, Curator of European and American Art, Honolulu Museum of Art
The Honolulu Museum of Art houses a collection of 50,000 works spanning 5,000 years in a beautiful, state-of-the-art facility. Their collection features African art, Asian art, textiles, and European/American art, and includes many works celebrating Hawai’i’s local artists and history [...]
Los Angeles, CA | September 12-16, 2016
The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC), in collaboration with the International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art (INCCA), is hosting their biennial congress from September 12 to 16 [...]
Setting Up Remote Access to Your Collections Management Software
Between off-site visits, courier trips, and after-hours projects, there are a lot of reasons users can benefit from remote access to TMS on a smartphone or tablet. Connecting to TMS on your mobile device is a simple process [...]
Introducing Our Conservation Documentation Software for Museum Conservators
Gallery Systems is pleased to announce the release of TMS Conservation Studio, a web-based tool that supports conservators by providing a workspace where all conservation object and project information is consolidated, linked, streamlined, and managed [...]
