Collection Management

Heights Heritage Conservation has extensive experience in collection management and can undertake the writing of Collection Management policies including:

	accessioning and cataloguing,
	deaccensuring and disposal,
	collection care, loans,
	public access, storage and exhibition,
	disaster planning.

We provide expertise in relocation strategies including:

	collection inventories / audits,
	design and fabrication boxes and supports,
	design and fabrication of crates and stillages,
	object identification of crates and stillages,
	object identification, location and tracking,
	advice on long term storage requirements,
	design of storage facilities and implementation of storage strategies,

Major Projects:

	Western Plains Cultural Centre (Dubbo Museum): Storage and Relocation Consultant and Collection Audit.
	Office of Rail Heritage: Writing of Collection Management policy.
	Sydney Jewish Museum: Storage Consultant
	Art Gallery of NSW: Relocation and Storage Consultant

"Tess Evans has a diploma from the Textile Conservation Centre, U.K. This course provides, to my knowledge, the most specialised practical textile conservation training currently available in the world.

Graduates from the Textile Conservation Centre are generally skilled in all areas of practical conservation and are very highly regarded."

Pat Townley
Head of Conservation, Powerhouse Museum