Arsenals of History 2017

Buffalo Bill Center of the West
Cody, Wyoming

Presentations

Day 1 (17 July)

Museum Collections Overviews

The NRA National Firearms Museum
Phil Schreier (Senior Curator, NRA Museums Division)

About the Autry Museum of the American West
Richard Moll (Chief Conservator, Autry Museum of the American West)

Springfield Armory
Alex Mackenzie (Curator, Springfield Armory National Historic Site)

The United States Marshals Museum
David Kennedy (Curator of Collections & Exhibits, United States Marshals Museum)

The Art Institute of Chicago’s New Arms & Armor Galleries
Jonathan Tavares (Associate Curator of Arms & Armor, The Art Institute of Chicago)

A (Very) Brief History of the Smithsonian’s National Firearms Collection
David Miller (Curator, Armed Forces History, National Museum of American History)

Firearms at Colonial Williamsburg
Erik Goldstein (Senior Curator of Mechanical Arts & Numismatics, Colonial Williamsburg)

Firearms and the Royal Armouries
Jonathan Ferguson (Keeper of Firearms & Artillery, Royal Armouries)

Firearms in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
John Byck (Assistant Curator, Department of Arms & Armor, Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Renovating Cody Firearms Museum
Ashley Hlebinsky (Curator, Cody Firearms Museum)

Remaining Neutral with Guns
Panel discussion

Day 2 (18 July)

Firearms Perception with Historic Arms
Richard Moll (Chief Conservator, Autry Museum of the American West)

Education, Public Access & Answering the Press
Ashley Hlebinsky (Curator, Cody Firearms Museum)

Shooting the Collection
Jonathan Ferguson (Curator of Firearms, Royal Armouries)

Legal Issues for Museums with Firearms
David Kennedy (Curator, U.S. Marshals Museum)

Conservation, Storage & Handling
Beverly Perkins (Chief Conservator, Buffalo Bill Center of the West)

Online Accessibility of Collections
Daniel Michael (Associate Curator, Cody Firearms Museum)

Publications

A list of publications arising from or otherwise connected to research presented at this symposium is provided below. This list is based on submissions from participants and may be incomplete.

Ashley Hlebinsky & Danny Michael (eds.), Arsenals of History: Firearms & Museums in the 21st Century, issue 1 (2018).