Have Gloves Will Travel LLC Information

Have Gloves Will Travel brings professional museum collections and registrar services to small and mid-size museums, historical & cultural organizations, and private collectors. We specialize in bringing expertise and experience to clients who have been awarded project grants to fund professional museum consultants and contractors. We turn vision into reality! Have Gloves Will Travel guides volunteer-led museums to understand and adopt museum standards and best practices in collections care, identify and solve registration numbering problems, strategize and solve challenges, and provide recommendations for digital solutions to effectively manage your collections. We provide workshops and training in registration methods and collections management, including object handling, collections inventory, cataloging, artifact labeling, and historical research. Have Gloves is known for its expertise in creating long-range inventory plans, organizational assessments and planning, and for its use of cognitive apprenticeship to model complex museum skills. SPECIALTIES: Cultural sensitivity to and understanding of day-to-day challenges facing small museums managed by volunteer and part-time staff • Inventory & Cataloging • Museum collection database management (PastPerfect 5.0 and web-based Collector Systems) • Conditions assessments • Resourcefulness with a focus on details • Taking the initiative to study discrete collections • Respectful of cultural and intrinsic objects • Expert object packing and handling • Accession, deaccession and loan procedures • Needs Assessment • Policy, Procedure & Process Development • Customer Service • accessionPad™ • Oh No! Ethobotany™: The safe handling and storage of potentially hazardous materials. Have Gloves provides knowledgeable and experienced experts in museum work who promote and support services that provide excellence to museums and valued community keeping places of all sizes and types. .