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museum collections

 
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We excel at projects that promote access to relevant museum collections. If your collection does not work to serve your changing audience, we can help you hone it into an efficient, effective, mission-delivery tool. America’s communities are changing, help more people see themselves in your collection through collection planning, appropriate and relevant cataloging, and inclusive policy.

 

Current projects

NYS Office of Cultural Education: Diversity Equity Inclusion Toolkit

American Association for State and Local History (AASLH): Collection Management Course

Town of Greenburgh, NY and The Friends of Odell House Rochambeau Headquarters (OHRH): Museum Development Plan

Heritage Museum and Gardens: Collection Development Plan

Preservation Long Island: Inventory procedure manual and recording tools

Five Colleges Consortium: Project Management for digital repository migration

Buffalo History Museum: Collection Consolidation Planning 

RECENT projects

Mead Art Museum: Collection Management Policy

Corporate client: Collection Assessment

Stone Hill Quarry Art Park: Collection Assessment

Five Colleges Consortiu: Museum Collections Leadership Council Strategic Planning

Billings Farm and Museum: Collection Assessment 

Waterfront Museum: Collection Assessment 

Oneida Community Mansion House: Collection Assessment

Buffalo History Museum: Collection Assessment

Buffalo History Museum: Collection Management Policy

 

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Featured Case Studies

STONE QUARRY HILL ART PARK

What are the implications of a contemporary artist residency operating an historic house museum?

Dorothy and Bob Reister founded Stone Quarry Hill Art Park (SQHAP) in the 1990s to support contemporary artists by providing the freedom to respond and engage with a landscape via installations and performances. In the mid 20th century, the Reisters constructed a home on the land that, as a practicing artist, Dorothy designed, created surfaces for, and furnished. When she died in 2017, she bequeathed her house and its contents to the nonprofit. The museum reached out to Frank + Glory to think creatively about how to use the gift.

MEAD ART MUSEUM

How does an art museum approach developing a new Collection Management Policy during several major transitions? 

Mead Art Museum at Amherst College (the Mead) was approaching its fourth reaccreditation by the American Alliance of Museums in 2024, in the midst of reopening the museum to visitors after relaxing COVID-19 restrictions, ongoing construction projects, and onboarding a new Director. As part of the self-study component of the reaccreditation process, the Mead wished to write and adopt a new Collection Management Policy (CMP) and requested our services to facilitate the process.