Looting and Criminal Sentencing in the Four Corners
The Butler Wash Ruins near Blanding, UTMore and more of the Four Corners antiquities cases are entering the sentencing phase,
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'"Hide/Seek": Museums, Ethics, and the Press,' Spring 2011 Conference
The Institute of Museum Ethics in partnership with the Institute for Ethical Leadership of Rutgers Business School held a conference
Read moreQ & A: Museum Ethics and Board of Directors Fundraising
A recent New York Times article noted the very large donations ($10 million!) expected of donors to Manhattan’s large museums. Museums need the money, but: how should museums strike a balance between their need for board members with different skills (fundraising, professional services, publicity, mission-related), and broadly represent the community, when the expectations of donations are so high? How can museums create a Board of Directors with members that can help achieve success on many levels, not just financial? Is it ethical to stack a Board with members that will raise the most money or plan the best parties?
Read moreConference Review: Responsibility for Accessibility: 2010 International Pacific Rim Conference on Disabilities
A conference and lecture review on the Responsibility for Accessibility. Reid discusses the responsibility of museums to their visitors and how museum professionals respond to this challenge.
Read moreBook Review: Art/Museums: International Relations Where We Least Expect It
A book review of Art/Museums: International Relations Where We Least Expect It by Christine Sylvester. The book engages many well-known complex current events within the art world which Sylvester interprets with fresh insight.
Read moreNew Directions in Museum Ethics: An International Conference of Graduate Student Research
The Institute of Museum Ethics held its 1st Biennial Graduate Student Conference: “New Directions in Museum Ethics” on November 14th, 2009 at Seton Hall University.
Read moreQuestionable Provenance
Q: Should museums treat recently created objects with questionable provenance any differently than they do older objects with questionable provenance? Submitted
Read moreOpen Storage
Q: Museums have increasingly turned to open storage as a means to display parts of their collection which would normally
Read moreMuseum Ethics in Totalitarian Regimes
Q: What are the ethical issues North American museums have to take into account when considering establishing satellite branches or
Read moreQ and A on Museum Ethics
Q: How are museum exhibitions using technology to create cultural context for objects in the collections and to establish multi-sensory
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