Hi Jenny/everyone, Our collection includes a number of conceptual works - here's how we currently track their installations in TMS: Fabrications are added to the object record as components (component name = fabrication, component type = part of artwork) Fabrication components are in addition to component rows for certificates of authenticity, drawings, installation instructions, and the like. Fabrication components have location entries corresponding to their exhibition(s), with appropriate notes in the Location Remarks field. When any given fabrication is destroyed, the location for that component row is entered as "Destroyed." The exhibition history of conceptual works is coherent through the object record's links to Exhibition and Loan records, while the lives of individual fabrications are chronicled through location history for each such component. Jeri ------------------_____________________ Jeri Moxley TMS Specialist Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (212) 423-3509 -----Original Message----- From: The Museum System (TMS) Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Wilker, Jenny Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 11:42 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Conceptual Works We just ran into an interesting problem. We have a conceptual piece that was executed in a gallery and had that gallery as its current location. Currently it is no longer on view in the gallery, and does not really exist anywhere. We are now considering what to do about its current location, or lack thereof. Has anybody already dealt with this? Any ideas? Jenny Wilker ________________________ Jenny Wilker, Ph.D. Manager, Collection Information Information Services Philadelphia Museum of Art 215-684-7746