Museum Collection Ethics discusses the complexities inherent in acquiring, preserving, and, making accessible to the public the extraordinary range of culturally significant objects entrusted to museums. The book provides an encompassing look at the intellectual, practical and stewardship duties museums by definition assume. Differences between ethics and laws, customs and expectations, practices and potentials are reviewed in the context of museum operations. These considerations are not synonymous. Each has its own characteristics. All infuse how museums treat collections.

I found this volume to be useful, current, readily readable and highly relevant to any archivist, or indeed any employee responsible for collections of any kind and how ethics can impact on professional practice. Miller motivated me throughout to examine how I myself approach collection ethics within my own career and workplaces, and that of colleagues and institutions elsewhere. If this is the first volume dedicated to museum collection ethics, then I look forward to reading the next.