Arsenals of History 2018
Buffalo Bill Center of the West
Cody, Wyoming
Presentations
Day 1 (21 May)
Survey of Staff Attitudes Towards Firearms
Richard Moll (Chief Conservator, Autry Museum of the American West)
Restoration in Museums
John Byck (Assistant Curator, Arms & Armour, Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Teaching Firearms in Universities
Ben Nicholson (Associate Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Being a Museum in the NRA
Phil Schreier (Senior Curator, NRA Museums Division)
Perspectives on Firearms from Museums
Dr Jennifer Tucker (Associate Professor, Wesleyan University)
Reconversion and Restoration of Flintlocks
Erik Goldstein (Curator of Mechanical Arts & Numismatics, Colonial Williamsburg)
Deaccessioning
Mathieu Willemsen (Curator, Nationaal Militair Museum)
How a Museum Gets a Gun
David Kennedy (Curator, U.S. Marshals Museum)
Collecting Objects with Dubious Pasts
Jonathan Ferguson (Keeper of Firearms & Artillery, Royal Armouries)
Day 2 (22 May)
Collections Access and the Role of Collectors
Alex MacKenzie (Curator, Springfield Armory NHS)
Provenance, Fakes, and Forgeries
Jonathan Ferguson (Keeper of Firearms & Artillery, Royal Armouries)
Role of Public Collections in the Gun Debate
Steve Sanetti (President, National Shooting Sports Foundation)
Legality of Museums and Firearms
Ashley Hlebinsky (Curator, Cody Firearms Museum)
Going Too Far, Limits in Conservation
Richard Moll (Chief Conservator, Autry Museum of the American West)
Day 3 (23 May)
Conflict of Interest and Personal Collecting
Erik Goldstein (Curator of Mechanical Arts & Numismatics, Colonial Williamsburg)
Effective Web Access for Collections
Ben Nicholson (Associate Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Taking the Gun Out of the Story
David Kennedy (Curator, U.S. Marshals 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 2 (2019).