Hi Christine!

1 -- At the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts we are starting to use the
exhibition module for implementation. I would love to see all the
exhibitions and rotations in TMS so that we have a proper archive, but for
those where it seems like extra work for the registrars I have not been
pushing it.

2 -- right now TMS 2012

3/4 -- most planning is done in Excel since not everyone involved in the
planning process has or wants to use TMS

It's interesting that you should mention exhibition planning, since I have
had a curator contact me in the last couple of days about creating TMS
records for works that will be in a catalog for an upcoming exhibition but
not physically in the exhibition itself. My gut reaction was that if it's
not part of our collection or a physical object we will be taking temporary
custody of, it shouldn't be in the collections database. BUT I would love
to hear other opinions on the subject. Does anyone else have "research"
records like this in their TMS database?

Cheers,

Fatima Mahdi




On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 8:41 AM, Christine Droll <[log in to unmask]>
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> Dear colleagues,
>
>
>
> In my search for the perfect mousetrap (in this instance, an
> exhibition-planning tool), I would like to pose four questions to my
> learned TMS colleagues:
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> 1.      Do you use the exhibitions module for *all* your exhibition
> needs—from planning to implementation to archiving?
>
> 2.      If so, what version of TMS do you have?
>
> 3.      Or do you use another program/database for this?
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> 4.      If so, what is it?
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> Any further insights or details of how your institution plans and
> implements an exhibition, using TMS or other programs, would be most
> appreciated by
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> Yours truly,
>
> Christine
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> Christine Droll
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