This installment, focusing on collections care and stewardship, presents a diverse series of case studies ranging from building projects to student involvement with collections and exhibit development, all focused on how to manage the intersection of museum theory and actual museum practice…. [A]ll the of case studies presented in the volume provide an interesting, engaging, and innovative look at collections stewardship, unique partnerships, exhibit development, planning, and student engagement with museums.

Museum Anthropology Review

Whether working in exhibitions, education, or collections management, museum professionals need to constantly update our ideas about what constitutes best practices. This book features valuable case studies related to current issues in museum and archival collections that pose creative solutions to issues confounding our field. Several authors outline the ways in which their projects trained student participants and how critical their participation was to the project’s success.

Kym Rice, Director and Chair of Museum Studies, George Washington University

As an educator, it was extremely useful to see innovative practices of co-creation, public engagement, and student learning in the collections and preservation activities of museums, both small and large. The volume’s authors seriously address ways in which collections care and curation can be more transparent to our visitors and communities, bringing collections activities into the learning ecosystem of a museum.

Mike Murawski, Director of Education & Public Programs, Portland Art Museum