Museum Property Directives

The Interior Museum Program develops and maintains policy and procedure documents for the governance, management, and preservation of museum collections managed by the bureaus and offices. 

411 DM "Identifying and Managing Museum Property" sets the overarching policy for museum property, and DOI Museum Property Directives serve as an extension to 411 DM, offering more specific policy, procedures, and standards.

DOI Museum Property DirectivesDate Issued
Directive 1: Introduction to Managing Museum CollectionsMarch 14, 2013
Directive 2: Museum Planning, Programming, and StaffingComing Soon
Directive 3: Required Standards for Documenting Museum PropertySeptember 21, 2012
Directive 4: Required Standards for Managing and Preserving Museum Property September 21, 2012
Directive 5: Museum Collections by DisciplineComing Soon
Directive 6: ArchivesComing Soon
Directive 7: Bureau Museum Property Management PlanComing Soon
Directive 8: Scope of Collection StatementComing Soon
Directive 9: Collection Management PlanComing Soon
Directive 10: Museum Emergency ManagementComing Soon
Directive 11: Museum Integrated Pest ManagementComing Soon
Directive12: Museum Fire Prevention and SecurityComing Soon
Directive 13: Museum Housekeeping and Preventive ConservationComing Soon

Directive 14: Facility Checklist for Spaces Housing DOI Museum Property

 

September 24, 2015
 

Directive 15: Conservation Survey and TreatmentComing Soon
Directive 16: Curatorial Health and SafetyComing Soon
Directive 17: Working with Non-Bureau Facilities and Repositories to Manage DOI Museum CollectionsNovember 27, 2018

Directive 18.1: Museum Collection Management System (MCMS)

Directive 18.2: Museum Collection Management System (MCMS) Access Controls

September 26, 2024
Directive 19: Acquisition and AccessioningComing Soon

Directive 20: Cataloging Museum Collections

February 3, 2016

Directive 21: Inventory of Museum Collections

March 13, 2014

 

Directive 22: Incoming Loans of Museum Collections

December 16, 2016
July 2017

Directive 23: Short-term Outgoing Loans of Museum Collections

December 1, 2018
 
Directive 24: Temporary Custodial ArrangementsComing Soon
Directive 25: Deaccessioning and DispositionComing Soon
Directive 26: Museum Records ManagementComing Soon
Directive 27: Reporting RequirementsComing Soon
Directive 28: Access, Use, and Restrictions of Museum CollectionsComing Soon
Directive 29: Exhibiting Museum CollectionsComing Soon
Directive 30: Museum Collections in Administrative Office SpaceComing Soon
Directive 31: Museum Collection StorageComing Soon
Master Glossary for DOI Museum Property DirectivesMarch 1, 2016
Master BibliographyComing Soon
Master IndexComing Soon

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