Table of Contents

List of illustrations

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I: Museum collections

1 Archaeology collections - Sara L. Wear

2 Art collections - Alison Bevan and Gemma Brace

3 Heritage properties - Emily Price

4 History collections - Alexia M. Clark

5 Military collections - Rachel Adams

6 Natural science collections - Bruce A. Campbell

PART II: Collection development and care

7 Collection development strategy: Potentially everything is useful and interesting - Elizabeth A. Walker and Diane Gwilt

8 Collection care and conservation - Christian Baars

Index

About the Author

Bruce A. Campbell is an Associate Tutor at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester.

Christian Baars is Senior Preventive Conservator at Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales in the UK.