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The Preparator's Handbook is an invaluable resource for emerging museum professionals or anyone working in galleries and collections with little-to-no previous preparatory experience or training. It explores, explains, and demonstrates object preparation and installation techniques.

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Based on his own extensive experience and that of museum colleagues, Saluti's handbook should quickly take its place among best practice references for the museum field. Clear, concise, yet comprehensive, it offers both big picture contextuality and detailed instructions that preparators in any type of museum will find useful, if not essential.--Jill Hartz, president emerita, Association of Academic Museums and Galleries

This book provides detailed insight into the varied work of a museum preparator, work that everyone in the museum should be aware of. It is an excellent resource for both entry level and seasoned museum professionals, and it could certainly serve as a textbook in college- and graduate-level Museum Studies courses. Saluti draws on his vast experiences in the field, demonstrating a thorough and practical knowledge of materials, object preparation, and installation techniques throughout the text, all of which is heightened by the inclusion of actual case studies from colleagues at various institutions.--Jennifer L. Streb, Ph.D., Professor of Art History, Juniata College Based on his own extensive experience and that of museum colleagues, Saluti's handbook should quickly take its place among best practice references for the museum field. Clear, concise, yet comprehensive, it offers both big picture contextuality and detailed instructions that preparators in any type of museum will find useful, if not essential.--Jill Hartz, president emerita, Association of Academic Museums and Galleries

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As a faculty member and the program coordinator for Museum Studies at Syracuse University, Andrew Saluti engages in consistent collaboration with the diverse community voices and cultural heritage collecting institutions that opulate both academic and professional sectors of the Central New York region. Together with his colleagues, faculty, and students Saluti considers equity, inclusivity, and accessibility core and vital aspects to museum practice and pedagogy. This commitment is reflected in the broad scope of teaching, mentoring, curricular design and professional practice that he facilitates, as well as through an ever-expanding network of emerging and established museum professionals from around the globe. Before stepping into the role of Program Coordinator for Museum Studies at Syracuse University, Saluti was the chief curator of exhibitions, programs and education for the Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Libraries and the assistant director of the Syracuse University Art Galleries and Collections. He continues to be an active member of numerous museum boards and advisory committees. Saluti’s dedication to and experience with museum governance and leadership, in concert with almost 20 years of professional practice in both archival and object-based collecting institutions, informs ongoing research and pedagogy that comprises both curatorship and collections, with specific interest and focus on the practical installation and design, as well as the role of institutional responsibility, stewardship, and sustainability of academic collection building.

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