| MMA94.01 |
Arts in America: National Endowment for the Arts
9:45 1992
Narrated by Walter Cronkite. Explains the broad reach of the NEA funding for local, state, regional and national organizations. Designed for use by local organizations to respond to the question of why the arts are important to society.
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| MMA94.02 |
Celebrate the Spirit: The Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Gallery
7:36 1992
Saginaw Valley State University
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| MMA94.03 |
Cultural Rights of Indigenous Peoples
1992
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| MMA94.04 |
Exhibiting Your Community's Heritage: Changing Area Exhibits I & II
83:00 1983/1984
Wisconsin State Historical Society
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| MMA94.05 |
Exhibiting Your Community's Heritage: Gallery Exhibits I & II
104:00 1983/1984
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| MMA94.06 |
Exhibiting Your Community's Heritage: A Walk Through Beaver Dam
53:00 1983/1984
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| MMA94.07 |
Hospitality: Your Most Valuable Service
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| MMA94.08 |
Insights: Museums, Visitors, Attitudes, Expectations: A Focus Group Experiment
60:00 1991
Presents findings from research project involving 11 American Art museums to better understand themselves from the perspective of the visitor. Includes excerpts of sessions from 5 of the participating museums: the National Gallery of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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| MMA94.09 |
John Glick: A Potter at Work
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| MMA94.10 |
Kresge Art Museum: Be a Part of Art
11:00 1990
A look at the Kresge's educational programming for children.
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| MMA94.11 |
Library Disaster: Prevention and Recovery
21:00
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| MMA94.12 |
Michigan Museums Association Public Service Announcement
00:30
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| MMA94.13 |
N.A.M.E. Exhibitions, 1988
44:10
National Association for Museum Exhibition. Records the approximately 50 exhibitions that were featured that year. Includes installation shots and the following information about each exhibition: designer, title of show, square footage, travelling or permanent display, development and fabrication time, opening date, institution and cost of the show.
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| MMA94.14 |
N.A.M.E. Exhibitions, 1989
46:30
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| MMA94.15 |
N.A.M.E. Exhibitions, 1990
44:13
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| MMA94.17 |
Outdoor Sculpture: Preserving the Hirshhorn Museum's Collection
16:00
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| MMA94.18 |
Paintings: Rx for Survival
40:00
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| MMA94.19 |
Save Outdoor Sculpture (SOS!): Sculpture at Risk
6:25 1991
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| MMA94.20 |
Sharing the Dream: Brian Lanker Photographs--Black Women Who Changed America
45:00 1989
Brian Lanker spent two years developing an exhibition documenting 75 African-American women who changed America. This video explores the creation of the exhibition and the photographer's vision, frustrations and triumphs as he carried out the project. This video provides a chance to see how the exhibition developed behind-the-scenes as well as opening night at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. in 1989.
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| MMA94.21 |
University of Michigan Outreach Program, Exhibit Museum, Kelsey Museum
1992
Institutional message, news package
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| MMA94.22 |
Exploring New Dimensions: Business & Arts partnerships Yield Higher Dividends, Concerned Citizens for the Arts in Michigan & Northwood University
60:00 1993
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| MMA94.23 |
Legacy at Risk: Strategies to Save Outdoor Sculpture
29:40 1993
Save Outdoor Sculpture (SOS!), joint project of National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution and the National Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Property. SOS! is a private/public initiative to document and increase awareness of America's sculpture legacy. A look at private and public funding in Boston, Chicago and other cities.
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| MMA95.01 |
Marshall Fredericks Documentary
60:00 1994
A look at the life and work of the Michigan sculptor Marshall Fredericks (1908 - ). Includes extensive interviews with the artist and vintage footage of Marshall at work. Features his three best known works (Fountain of Eternal Life, Cleveland; Spirit of Detroit, 1958, Detroit; Christ on the Cross, 1959, Indian River).
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| MMA95.02 |
Kresge Art Museum: Adult Orientation Video
12:00 1995
A brief introduction to the Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University. Includes basic information about visiting the museum and some of the Kresge's programming.
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| MMA95.03 |
Grand Rapids Public Museum: "People of This Place"
Anishinabek Interviews - A Selection
14:40 1995
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| MMA96.01 |
Museum Security: The Guard's Role
20:00 1983
A film directed toward guards, but valuable for volunteers, guides, docents, gallery attendants and professional staff.
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| MMA96.02 |
Pictures to an Exhibition: Morris Louis Goes To Milan
57:20 1991
This one-hour program intimately documents every step of the journey as we follow the creation of a major exhibition of paintings in Milan, Italy, by the late American abstract artist, Morris Louis.
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| MMA96.03 |
Preventive Conservation in Museums: Introduction
1995
The role of a museum is to collect, study, preserve, exhibit and promote material culture. The objective of this video series and manual is to help those in charge of museum collections to fulfill their mandate for preservation.
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| MMA96.04 |
Preventive Conservation in Museums: Light and Lighting
1995
Light and heat accelerate the natural degradation process. Every day, we witness the harmful effects on some objects of prolonged exposure to sunlight. Light can cause colours to alter and fabrics and papers to become more fragile.
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| MMA96.05 |
Preventive Conservation in Museums: Relative Humidity and Temperature
1995
Humidity variations cause familiar phenomena. Some variations in humidity are slow and accompany a change of season. Others happen suddenly and occur daily. Humidity variations are often related to a change in temperature.
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| MMA96.06 |
Preventive Conservation in Museums: Pollutants
1995
Air pollution seriously damages the environment. Pollutants--for example, dust of all kinds, nitrogen oxides, and sulfur compounds--accelerate the deterioration of buildings and monuments. Museums are not airtight, so these pollutants can enter and pose a threat to artifacts in the collection.
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| MMA96.07 |
Preventive Conservation in Museums: Integrated Pest Management
1995
Although they are a necessary part of our ecological system, insects and other pests can be destructive to museums, galleries, libraries or archives. If an infestation occurs, many objects in a collection could be chewed, torn or soiled, thus reducing their value and their potential for research, and making them unsuitable for display. Pest damage to a collection is irreversible; it is therefore essential that it be prevented.
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| MMA96.08 |
Preventive Conservation in Museums: Packing and Transportation of Museum Objects
1995
Never has cultural property traveled as much as it does today. Each year, hundreds of artifacts are moved in and out of museums as part of traveling exhibitions and international exchanges, or between off site storage and the main museum building.
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| MMA96.09 |
Preventive Conservation in Museums: Storage
1995
Museum storage areas are easy to neglect. While they are not as prestigious as exhibition rooms, the majority of the collection is found in the storage rooms and most objects spend much more time there than in the exhibition areas. Museums should give particular care to setting up storage areas so as to slow the deterioration of objects, to avoid accidents, and to maintain their collections in the best possible conditions.
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| MMA96.10 |
Preventive Conservation in Museums: Protecting Objects on Exhibition
1995
Are the objects in your museum displayed safely? Does their exhibition compromise their safekeeping? There are various means to ensure the protection and preservation of museum objects during the planning, installation, maintenance and dismantling of an exhibit.
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| MMA96.11 |
Preventive Conservation in Museums: Emergency Contingency Planning
1995
Each year, thousands of museum objects, art works, book and archival documents throughout the world are damaged during disasters. A fire can destroy an entire collection or can cause damage such as charring or soot deposits. Fire hoses project large quantities of water at very high pressure, causing considerable physical damage to a museum collection. Water causes distortion, shrinkage, water stains, stains from water-soluble dyes and pigments and corrosion of metals. Water from a flood, a fire or a leak can cause some or all of this damage.
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| MMA96.12 |
Preventive Conservation in Museums: Closing a Seasonal Museum
1995
Some museums close down for some part of the year because of few visitors, reduced staff or budget constraints. The museum's staff must prepare their building and collection for closure and subsequent reopening in a well-planned and organized manner.
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| MMA96.13 |
Preventive Conservation in Museums: The Condition Report
1995
The condition report is an important tool in preventive conservation. It is the "medical record" that describes the physical state of each item from the moment it enters the collection and tracks its condition through the years.
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| MMA96.14 |
Preventive Conservation in Museums: Handling Museum Objects
1995
Many things threaten the survival of museum objects, but human error is the greatest threat of all. Damage is not always caused by intentionally destructive behavior like vandalism; the true culprit is usually negligence during daily handling.
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| MMA96.15 |
Preventive Conservation in Museums: The Care of Paintings
1995
Shipwrecks, wars and fires have destroyed thousands of paintings. Others have reached the present day in such bad condition that they can only serve a documentary purpose. Happily, a large number of old paintings have preserved their appearance and still enchant us despite the effects of time.
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| MMA96.16 |
Preventive Conservation in Museums: The Care of Works on Paper
1995
Paper is the guardian of our most important thoughts and deeds, as much from an artistic and literary standpoint as an historic one. However, paper ages and deteriorates. We must adopt special measures to minimize the damage and to preserve this most important heritage; this is the essence of preventive conservation.
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| MMA96.17 |
Preventive Conservation in Museums: The Care of Sculptures
1995
Sculptures in museum collections are made of various materials including wood, plaster, metal, stone, wax and papier-mâché. As well, there are wooden sculptures sheathed in metal that were originally displayed outside. This video deals primarily with wooden and plaster sculptures and will touch on the subject of contemporary sculptures.
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| MMA96.18 |
Preventive Conservation in Museums: The Care of Metal Objects
1995
Preventive conservation of metal objects is aimed at slowing the unavoidable corrosion process and at preventing other damage to which metals are exposed by their very nature. This will allow them to reveal, as fully as possible, information as to how they were made and used.
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| MMA96.19 |
Preventive Conservation in Museums: The Care of Furniture
1995
Furniture is part of a large number of museum collections. It is one of the most representative witnesses of past lifestyles, tastes, customs and technical knowledge. This extensive legacy can best be preserved through preventive conservation.
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| MMA96.20 |
Preventive Conservation in Museums: The Care of Textiles
1995
Textile collections contain a wide variety of artifacts and can include flat textiles like tapestries, flags and lace, and three-dimensional textiles like costumes. They can also include composite artifacts such as dolls with clothing, upholstered furniture and costume accessories.
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| MMA96.21 |
Preventive Conservation in Museums: The Care of Museum Objects
1995
How should each object be cared for? It mostly depends on the materials that make up each object. Other considerations include the way the object is made, the way its various components interact and the object's dimensions, history and condition.
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