Hello all,
At SFMOMA we're working on a collection
management system
needs analysis. Managing exhibitions is one of the most complicated
functions we perform with our system. Currently we use our system to create
exhibition, venue, loan, shipping, and crate records. Registrars manage
individual works coming from multiple lenders and going to different venues in
different shipments, sometimes with parts of the same object in several
crates, or with multiple objects in one crate. They use the system to
assemble the objects, manage the tour, and disperse the exhibition. They
create packing and installation instructions, condition report books,
checklists, crate lists, lists for shippers, pro forma invoices, and a whole
lot more.
We're interested in hearing from colleagues who are
actively using their collection management systems to manage in-house or
touring exhibitions (we use ours for a heavy schedule of both). If
you are currently using your cms to manage exhibitions, would you be willing
to share your thoughts with me on- or offlist? Are there aspects of your
system you especially like or would like to change? Are there aspects of
exhibition management your system doesn't support?
If your system does it all at the touch of a button,
we'd like to know that too.
Thanks for your help,
Marla
Misunas
Collections Information
Manager
Collections Information and
Access
San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art
(415) 357- 4186 (voice)
Check out SFMOMA
Collections Online at
www.sfmoma.org
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