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Book Interactive PDF Template Video Webpage Worksheet

50 for 250: the culmination of years of Active Collections work at the Vermont Historical Society

A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections

Active Collections (Book)

Active Collections (Website)

Active Collections Action Plan

Active Collections Manifesto

Active Collections Mini-Workshop

Active Collections Success Story: A Unique Coat Gets Some TLC

Active Collections Success Story: Sharon Historical Society Reopens! 

Aligning Collections and Values Worksheet

All In Vermont

Archival Basics: A Practical Manual for Working with Historical Collections

Brainstorming Activity for Poetic Collecting Scope

Brookfield Historical Society Sample Tier Charts

Collecting Scope Sample - Framingham History Center

Collection Assessment for Educator Partnership

Collection Development Plan Sample - Missoula Art Museum

Collection Tier Chart Template

Collections Grading System Example

Deaccession Donor Notification Template

Deaccessioning Motivational Posters

Defining Memory: Local Museums and the Construction of History in America's Changing Communities

Disposal of Deaccessioned Objects

Framingham History Center Collections Policy

How to Weed Your Attic: Getting Rid of Junk without Destroying History

ICOM Guidelines on Deaccessioning

Insights from Archival Processing

Inventory Templates

Inventorying Cultural Heritage Collections: A Guide for Museums and Historical Societies

Leveraging free and lower-cost tools for accessible collections

LHS Handbook

Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections: A Practical Guide for Museums. 

Museum Registration Methods, 6th Edition

Off the Shelf: A Toolkit for Ethical Transfer, Reuse and Disposal

Poetic Collecting Scope Examples

Preserve, Protect, and Defend: A Practical Guide to the Care of Collections

Project Updates on the VHS Blog

Recommendation for Acquisition

Recording Essential Object Data

Registration Methods for the Small Museum, 5th Edition

Sample Deaccession Worksheets

Teaching the 250th

Things Great and Small: Collections Management Policies, 2nd Edition

Tier Chart Examples

Tier Recording Template

Unrestricted Gift Form

Values Portfolio Workbook

Vermont Museum Property Laws

Virtual Roundtable: Deaccessioning

What Does it Mean to Know What You Have?

What's Your Local Identity?