Collections Management & Databases

As your collections grow and storage capacity shrinks, you are likely considering your collecting policies and space needs, focusing on how your collections best fit your mission and operating goals. 

We can work with you to develop a collections policy, make recommendations regarding de-accessioning, review storage needs, and develop collections management tools that will optimize staff efficiency.  We have worked with many different institutions, and specialize in fostering collaboration among institutions with common collecting goals and shared strategic visions.Back to overview of Our Services

Examples of Our Work

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City Hall under construction, from 'Philadelphia: The Great Experiment'
For the documenary series "Philadelphia: The Great Experiment," we worked with 40 cultural institutions to draft and implement a mutually beneficial rights & reproductions policy.  This facilitated the procuring of images and other resources for the seven-part series.  View project page
As part of Ben Franklin 300, we worked with database developers and a subject expert to create the online Frankliniana Database -- a record of all known life portraits of Franklin and objects owned by him.  (It is now administered by the Phillips Museum of Art at Franklin & Marshall College.)  View project page
The institutional collaboration that will be the film project's hallmark was entirely their creation and will enable the film to be a truly community-wide undertaking.  These two really know what they're doing.
 -- Sam Katz, Executive Producer, History Making Productions
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Client List:
Collections Management & Databases

  • History Making Productions: "Philadelphia: The Great Experiment" (documentary series)
  • Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary, Philadelphia: The Frankliniana Database
  • Valley Forge Historical Society, Pennsylvania
  • Pennsylvania Hospital Historical Collections, Philadelphia
  • Edward Hand Medical Foundation, Lancaster, PA
  • Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia (now the Philadelphia History Museum at the Atwater Kent)
  • T. L. Hayes Estate, Bryn Mawr, PA
  • Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
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