A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections Third Edition

Hailed when it was first published in 1985 as the bible of U.S. collections management <i>A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections</i> offers the only comprehensive discussion of the legal questions faced by museums regarding collections. This revised and expanded third edition addresses the many legal developments&#151;including a comprehensive discussion of stolen art and the international movement of cultural property recent developments in copyright and the effects of burgeoning electronic uses&#151;that have occurred during the past twenty-five years. An authorative go-to book for any museum professional <i>Legal Primer</i> offers detailed explanations of the law suggestions for preventing legal problems and numerous case studies of lawsuits involving museum collections.