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Who Should Participate?
CONTENTS
1. Who should participate?
2. What are the benefits of participating?
3. Creating an account
4. What information should I supply?
5. What if I want to list a large number of objects?
6. What if my museum does not have its own provenance Web
site?
7. Other questions
1. Who Should Participate?
Any museum holding one or more objects in its collection that
- were created before 1946 and acquired after 1932,
- underwent a change of ownership between 1932 and 1946, and
- were or might reasonably be thought to have been in Continental Europe
between those dates
is encouraged to register these objects in the Nazi-Era Provenance Internet
Portal. In the event that a museum is unable to determine whether an object
created before 1946 and acquired after 1932 (a) might have been in Continental
Europe between 1932 and 1946 and/or (b) underwent a change of ownership
during that period, it should still be listed.
2. What are the benefits of participating?
Researching the Nazi-era provenance of objects and providing provenance
information to the public is consonant with the fundamental mission of
museums to document and publish their collections. In designing and developing
the Portal, AAM has tried to ease the burden of conveying the results
of provenance research to the public. By participating in the Portal,
museums demonstrate that they are committed to the open and responsible
stewardship of the objects under their care. In so doing, they show themselves
to be worthy of the high public trust we as a community are privileged
to enjoy.
3. Creating an account
AAM has sought to make creating an account and listing objects as easy
as possible. To create an account, e-mail Portal Administrator Brooke Leonard
at nepip@aam-us.org. She'll
supply you with a user name and password, along with a set of instructions
for logging into the Portal.
4. What information should I supply?
After you log in, we'll ask you to provide us with some basic information
about your museum: name, street address, contact person's name and phone
number, and a few other items. We'd also like to know whether your museum
holds Judaica in its collections.
Once you've completed your museum profile, you can begin adding objects
to the Portal registry. We'll ask you to supply some basic identifying
information for each object you list. Four basic items are required:
- Accession number
- Artist's name
- Nationality of the artist (or nationality/culture of the object if
the artist is unknown)
- Object title
Ideally we'd also like you to provide two additional categories of information:
- Object type (painting, drawing, etc.)
- A brief description
Finally, we'll ask you to provide a URL on your museum's Web site where
researchers can find out more about the object(s).
5. What if I want to list a large number of
objects?
All participating museums can create object records using a form on the
Portal. Museums with more than five objects to register can supply the
required information to the Portal staff as an Excel spreadsheet. We'll
create the separate object records for you as a single batch process.
You can review your object records at any time, and add or change object
information.
6. What if my museum does not have its own provenance
Web site?
If your museum does not have detailed provenance research information
online, the Portal can host this information for you. Create a file containing
as much of the detailed object information requested in the AAM
Recommended Procedures as you can in a format of your choosing (e.g., a Microsoft
Word document), and e-mail it to the Portal
Administrator. We’ll convert your document to a PDF file, and
store it on the Portal server.
7. Other questions
Do you have additional questions about the Nazi-Era Provenance Internet
Portal? Contact the Portal Administrator:
Brooke Leonard
Portal Administrator
Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal
American Association of Museums
1575 Eye St. NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20005
nepip@aam-us.org
Phone: 202/289-9139
Fax: 202/289-6578
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