At last year’s NCPH in Pensacola, some of the standout panels were on museum collecting and collections.  It’s surprisingly unusual for colleagues from history organizations to have a chance to come together and talk about the practical and philosophical issues we run into every day of working with objects.

I therefore propose a session for an unstructured discussion on museum collections.  Some issues we might address:  dealing with donors, provenance issues, found in collections items, collecting strange/controversial/unwieldy things.