What to Consider (American Alliance of Museums, 2012. p.2) • The process to create and implement a policy is more important than the policy itself. • The ways to create policies should be adapted by each museum, since their circumstances are different from one and another. • Collection management policy should be integrated with other museum’s official documents in order to be effective, consistent and comprehensive. Why these issues have become even more important on boards These issues are significant because of the importance of collection to museums. Collections advance the museum’s mission while serving the public, and are held in trust by the board for the “owner” - the community or public - and made accessible for them. Museums are expected to maintain the highest legal, ethical and professional standards by the public (American …show more content…
However, the conflict is that some trustees are brought on board because of their specialty of or interest in the museum’s collection (Ullberg 1987, p.79). In other cases, the collector who has donated a personal collection to the museum may require museum to exhibit his/her donated collection, which could damnify the independence of the museum. How to Mitigate the Issue? When a trustee collects objects related to those collected by his/her institution, prudent and thoughtful judgment is required. No trustee or their family members may knowingly compete with the museum’ purchase or deaccessioned works, or sell art works to the museum above fair market value (The Museum of Modern Art, p.6). Trustees who are collectors cannot make up for a large portion of collection management committee so as to lessen the vulnerability of this issue (Ullberg, 1987, p.80). 2) Ethical Issue: Artists Who Are Potential Sources of Work as