Compass Room - The DISCOVERY
Increasing Collections Access Through Collaboration
Learning Format: Active Learning
The California Collections Resource Center at the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) houses the largest collection of California-focused art and artifacts in the state. We'll share the steps of recent internal partnership-based projects that have increased access to art, history, and natural science collections items for a wide range of people, including OMCA staff, researchers, Native American tribes, other institutions, and the general public.
Found in Collections: Elevating Conundrums
Learning Format: Conversation
You have conducted an inventory of your collections and now have a pile of objects with no identification, how to proceed? This roundtable will provide a time to discuss procedures to locate identities. Though each state has its own laws governing found in collections items, the processes and procedures of trying to locate an item’s identification can be similar. Let’s share ideas, struggles, and provide support for each other as we tackle this giant puzzle.