Collections and Deaccessioning in a Post-Pandemic World: Conversations with Museum Directors: 1

Conversations with Museum Directors is about far more than the deaccessioning of museum and gallery collections. Its about how museums will be - mustbe - 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 partof a major new 950-page resource which draws on the experience and thinking of some of the worlds 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 AAMDChristopher Bedford Director Baltimore Museum of ArtThomas Campbell Director Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco- Michael Conforti Former Director Clark Art InstituteAdrian Ellis Director AEA ConsultingKaywin Feldman Director National Gallery of ArtLinda Harrison Director Newark Museum ArtGlenn Lowry Director MoMA The three volumes in the collection (available separately) are: Conversations with Museum Directors (this book)Towards a New Reality Case Studies