Collections and Deaccessioning in a Post-Pandemic World: Conversations with Museum Directors

Conversations with Museum Directors is about far more than the deaccessioning of museum and gallery collections. It's about how museums will be - must be - different after Covid-19. About a transformed environment, both social and financial, and museums' total response to it. In a changed and charged reality, deaccessioning is one element of a future in which issues of social justice, inequality, race, pay and decolonisation will impact collections as never before.

It is part of a major new 950-page resource which draws on the experience and thinking of some of the world's most experienced and respected museum and gallery professionals, with a Foreword by Melody Kanschat and Antoniette M Guglielmo of the Museum Leadership Institute.

Contributors include:

• Christine Anagnos - Director, AAMD
• Christopher Bedford - Director, Baltimore Museum of Art
• Thomas Campbell - Director, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco- Michael Conforti - Former Director, Clark Art Institute
• Adrian Ellis - Director, AEA Consulting
• Kaywin Feldman - Director, National Gallery of Art
• Linda Harrison - Director, Newark Museum Art
• Glenn Lowry - Director, MoMA

The three volumes in the collection (available separately) are:

1. Conversations with Museum Directors (this book)
2. Towards a New Reality
3. Case Studies