Paper presented at the Fifth International Conference on Cultural Economics held at the Canada Council, Ottawa, Canada, September 27-30, 1988.

This book is a collection of papers by various authors on the broad topic of conservation art and architecture; several authors present the global dimensions to the protection of cultural property while authors from the Los Angeles, California area, illustrate the issues with the examples from their local institutions.

[This book] is designed to facilitate the search for financial support for museums and museum activities and programs. A museum, as defined by the American Association of Museums, is considered to be any ....nonprofit institution essentially educational or aesthetic in purpose with professional staff, which owns or utilizes tangible objects, cares for them, and exhibits them to the public on some schedule.

The specter of the dead hand fascinates the legal profession. Numerous articles have been written about the legality or wisdom of arrangements that permit an individual to control property indefinitely after his or her death (control by the dead hand). Shades of the dead hand hover over many museums in the form of restricted gifts. When a museum accepts an object for its collection with, for example, a condition that requires permanent display or permanent retention, the museum bows to the dead hand - it agrees that utilization of the object will be controlled forever by the donor. Can such

Museum education has been an integral function of art museums in America since their inception. Indeed, our most venerable institutions call attention to the importance of education in their founding charters. Yet despite this responsibility, there remain significant unresolved questions about how best to organize and conduct the enterprise of museum education. A spectrum of opinion exists for every important issue. Whose responsibility is it in the art museum to conceive and carry out an educational program? What are the best ways to help audiences have meaningful encounters with works of

The grants described here are only a handful of nearly 4,000 that have been awarded by the Design arts Program since it was established twenty years ago as part of the National Endowment for the Arts. . . . the stories here sum up the many ways in which good design enhances the efficiency, economy and beauty of our daily lives. (Foreword, p. 7). ... its purpose is not only to fund worthwhile design proposals that span architecture to fashion, but to be creative in the choosing. One example of the Program's grants is misleading and a hundred are bewildering in illuminating its mission. The

The Director of the Institute of Museum Services gives an overview of conservation needs in American museums and programs at the Institute of Museum Services designed to address these needs.

This booklet reviews 10 years (1977-87) of work by the Institute of Museum Services.

This survey of arts organizations in New York State clarifies many of the questions surrounding the space usage and needs of these institutions. An important consideration to keep in mind when discussing these issues is the wide diversity in the sizes of these organizations and, consequently, their space needs.

Review by Joyce L. Hagen of the book A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections [Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution press, 1985, 351 p.].