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An important book about an important subject! Museum deaccessioning is a healthy but potentially fraught practice. Steve Miller provides at once an ethical foundation and detailed guidelines for its implementation. Based on decades of museum experience, his book is a must-read for museum professionals and visitors alike.--Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, professor of art history and museum studies, Seton Hall University

An important book about an important subject! Museum deaccessioning is a healthy but potentially fraught practice. Steve Miller provides at once an ethical foundation and detailed guidelines for its implementation. Based on decades of museum experience, his book is a must-read for museum professionals and visitors alike. -- Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, professor of art history and museum studies, Seton Hall University Deaccessioning Today: Theory and Practice offers museum practitioners and museum studies students an enlightening volume to guide them through the often murky issue of deaccessioning. It provides an insightful understanding to the issues facing museums when challenged with the problematic question of when it is appropriate and/or necessary to `let an object go'. This book is a valuable addition to any museum professional's bookcase. -- Priscilla Brendler, executive director, Greater Hudson Heritage Network

An important book about an important subject! Museum deaccessioning is a healthy but potentially fraught practice. Steve Miller provides at once an ethical foundation and detailed guidelines for its implementation. Based on decades of museum experience, his book is a must-read for museum professionals and visitors alike.--Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, professor of art history and museum studies, Seton Hall University Deaccessioning Today: Theory and Practice offers museum practitioners and museum studies students an enlightening volume to guide them through the often murky issue of deaccessioning. It provides an insightful understanding to the issues facing museums when challenged with the problematic question of when it is appropriate and/or necessary to 'let an object go'. This book is a valuable addition to any museum professional's bookcase.--Priscilla Brendler, executive director, Greater Hudson Heritage Network

An important book about an important subject! Museum deaccessioning is a healthy but potentially fraught practice. Steve Miller provides at once an ethical foundation and detailed guidelines for its implementation. Based on decades of museum experience, his book is a must-read for museum professionals and visitors alike. -- Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, professor of art history and museum studies, Seton Hall University

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Steven Miller has devoted nearly fifty years to museum service. He has been a curator, mid-level administrator, director, educator, trustee, writer, and consultant. His career began with the Museum of the City of New York in its curatorial department for paintings, prints and photographs. He concluded that job as senior curator. He was then the assistant director of the Mains State Museum, director of museums at the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH, executive director of the Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT, executive director of the Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ and executive director of Boscobel Restoration, Garrison, NY. Miller has written, lectured, consulted, and been closely involved in deaccessioning matters since the practice started receiving widespread attention in the mid-1970s. His academic accolades include B.A., Bard College, Sculpture, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY International Graduate Certificate, Principles of Conservation Science, (UNESCO) International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, Rome, Italy.

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