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About Frank & Glory

Frank and Glory is a museum services firm that supports diversity and sustainability in museum collections. We believe that museums are primarily for people in the present and future, rather than collections of the past. With current and future audiences in mind, we help museums transform their collections into accessible, relevant, inclusive and sustainable tools for mission delivery.


Mission

Frank & Glory facilitates rightsizing and inclusivity of museum collections in accordance with the collecting organization’s capacity for care, management, accessibility, and use of its collections.

 
 
 

building long

lasting

collections

— with —

communities

in mind

 
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Our Values


01. Generosity

We start with “yes,” give maximally and respect self-care priorities.

02. efficiency

We do the most good possible with appropriate resources.

03. Presence

We show up and stay present for our client/partners.

04. Acceptance

We elevate underrepresented perspectives in the past and present.

 
 
 
 

Collection Assessment and Planning

Collection Management Policies

Project design and management

Data Entry

Deaccession and Disposal

 
 
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what can we do

Together?

Ready to get to

work?

 
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Our Team

Erin Richardson

Founder and Principal

Erin has been working in museums since 1992. She’s witty, fun, smart, ethical, and deadly serious about museum collections as educational and cultural assets with high opportunity costs. It is not free to keep an artifact, artwork, manuscript, or publication forever. She challenges museums and libraries to think carefully about investing resources in collections that are relevant for, and representative of, their current and future audiences so that they may support the museum’s mission. 

 



 

Previous Museum Workplaces

Five Colleges Incorporated
Project Manager for Museums Collection Management Commons, 2019–2021
A 2-year, $800,000 planning grant funded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by five College, Incorporated. The project was steered by an interdisciplinary, intercampus committee of museum and library leaders. Its purpose was to plan for the future of a database shared by six museums since the mid-1990s.

Fenimore Art Museum and The Farmers' Museum Director of Museum and Library Collections, 2011-2018

The Farmers' Museum Curator, 2007-2011

Cooperstown Graduate Program Adjunct Faculty in Museum Collections, 2007-2018

Stepping Stones Foundation Curator, 2007

Historic Cherry Hill Curator, 2001-2007

Old Fort Niagara Interpreter, 1992-1999

Significant Projects

Plowline: Images of Rural New York Founding Curator

New York History Day
Five years of program oversight, grant applications, and reporting

Historic Cherry Hill's Edward Frisbee Center for Collections and Research
Space planning, collection relocation

Education

2018 PhD | Leadership and Policy — Niagara University

2001 MA | Museum Studies — Cooperstown Graduate Program

1999 BA | American Studies — State University of New York at Geneseo

 

Service to the museum field

American Association for State and Local History Professional Standards and Ethics Committee, 2018-present

American Association for State and Local History Collection Management Systems Task-Force, 2018-present

Institute of Museum and Library Services Grant peer-reviewer, 2012-present

American Alliance of Museums Peer-reviewer, Collections MAP and Accreditation

Museum Association of New York Vice President, 2011-2015

Museumwise Secretary, 2006-2011 (This organization consolidated with the Museum Association of New York in 2011)