About Frank & Glory
Frank and Glory is a museum services firm that supports diversity and sustainability in museum collections. We believe that museums are primarily for people in the present and future, rather than collections of the past. With current and future audiences in mind, we help museums transform their collections into accessible, relevant, inclusive and sustainable tools for mission delivery.
Mission
Frank & Glory facilitates rightsizing and inclusivity of museum collections in accordance with the collecting organization’s capacity for care, management, accessibility, and use of its collections.
building long
lasting
collections
— with —
communities
in mind
Our Values
01. Generosity
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We start with “yes,” give maximally and respect self-care priorities.
02. efficiency
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We do the most good possible with appropriate resources.
03. Presence
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We show up and stay present for our client/partners.
04. Acceptance
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We elevate underrepresented perspectives in the past and present.
Collection Assessment and Planning
Collection Management Policies
Project design and management
Data Entry
Deaccession and Disposal
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Our Team
Erin Richardson
Founder and Principal
Erin has been working in museums since 1992. She’s witty, fun, smart, ethical, and deadly serious about museum collections as educational and cultural assets with high opportunity costs. It is not free to keep an artifact, artwork, manuscript, or publication forever. She challenges museums and libraries to think carefully about investing resources in collections that are relevant for, and representative of, their current and future audiences so that they may support the museum’s mission.
Previous Museum Workplaces
Five Colleges Incorporated
Project Manager for Museums Collection Management Commons, 2019–2021
A 2-year, $800,000 planning grant funded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by five College, Incorporated. The project was steered by an interdisciplinary, intercampus committee of museum and library leaders. Its purpose was to plan for the future of a database shared by six museums since the mid-1990s.
Fenimore Art Museum and The Farmers' Museum Director of Museum and Library Collections, 2011-2018
The Farmers' Museum Curator, 2007-2011
Cooperstown Graduate Program Adjunct Faculty in Museum Collections, 2007-2018
Stepping Stones Foundation Curator, 2007
Historic Cherry Hill Curator, 2001-2007
Old Fort Niagara Interpreter, 1992-1999
Significant Projects
Plowline: Images of Rural New York Founding Curator
New York History Day
Five years of program oversight, grant applications, and reporting
Historic Cherry Hill's Edward Frisbee Center for Collections and Research
Space planning, collection relocation
Education
2018 PhD | Leadership and Policy — Niagara University
2001 MA | Museum Studies — Cooperstown Graduate Program
1999 BA | American Studies — State University of New York at Geneseo
Service to the museum field
American Association for State and Local History Professional Standards and Ethics Committee, 2018-present
American Association for State and Local History Collection Management Systems Task-Force, 2018-present
Institute of Museum and Library Services Grant peer-reviewer, 2012-present
American Alliance of Museums Peer-reviewer, Collections MAP and Accreditation
Museum Association of New York Vice President, 2011-2015
Museumwise Secretary, 2006-2011 (This organization consolidated with the Museum Association of New York in 2011)