Museum Property Directives

The Interior Museum Program develops and maintains policy and procedure documents for the governance, management, and preservation of museum collections managed by the bureaus and offices.

411 DM "Identifying and Managing Museum Property" sets the overarching policy for museum property, and DOI Museum Property Directives serve as an extension to 411 DM, offering more specific policy, procedures, and standards.

DOI Museum Property Directives	Date Issued
Directive 1: Introduction to Managing Museum Collections	March 14, 2013
Directive 2: Museum Planning, Programming, and Staffing	TBD
Directive 3: Required Standards for Documenting Museum Property	September 21, 2012
Directive 4: Required Standards for Managing and Preserving Museum Property	September 21, 2012
Directive 5: Museum Collections by Discipline	TBD
Directive 6: Archives	TBD
Directive 7: Bureau Museum Property Management Plan	TBD
Directive 8: Scope of Collection Statement	TBD
Directive 9: Collection Management Plan	TBD
Directive 10: Museum Emergency Management	TBD
Directive 11: Museum Integrated Pest Management	TBD
Directive12: Museum Fire Prevention and Security	TBD
Directive 13: Museum Housekeeping and Preventive Conservation	TBD
Directive 14: Facility Checklist for Spaces Housing DOI Museum Property Guidance for DOI Museum Facility Checklist Museum Facility Checklist for DOI Facilities Museum Facility Checklist for Non-DOI Facilities	September 24, 2015
Directive 15: Conservation Survey and Treatment	TBD
Directive 16: Curatorial Health and Safety	TBD
Directive 17: Working with Non-Bureau Facilities and Repositories to Manage DOI Museum Collections	November 27, 2018
Directive 18.1: Museum Collection Management System (MCMS) Directive 18.2: Museum Collection Management System (MCMS) Access Controls	September 26, 2024
Directive 19: Acquisition and Accessioning	TBD
Directive 20: Cataloging Museum Collections Guidance for Cataloging Department of the Interior Museum Collections	February 3, 2016 March 2016
Directive 21: Inventory of Museum Collections Appendix 1: Random Sampling Table	March 13, 2014
Directive 22: Incoming Loans of Museum Collections Guidance for Incoming Loans of Museum Collections	December 16, 2016 July 2017
Directive 23: Short-term Outgoing Loans of Museum Collections DI-3220, Notice of Potential Hazard in Museum Collections	December 1, 2018
Directive 24: Temporary Custodial Arrangements	TBD
Directive 25: Deaccessioning and Disposition	TBD
Directive 26: Museum Records Management	TBD
Directive 27: Reporting Requirements	TBD
Directive 28: Access, Use, and Restrictions of Museum Collections	TBD
Directive 29: Exhibiting Museum Collections	TBD
Directive 30: Museum Collections in Administrative Office Space	TBD
Directive 31: Museum Collection Storage	TBD
Glossary	February 3, 2026
Bibliography	TBD
Index	TBD

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