Case Study (212) 273-1131 www.gallerysystems.com M+ M+, a new museum in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District, has set out to become one of the world’s largest museums of modern and contem- porary visual culture and has spent the last several years collecting objects from around the globe. In addition to artworks and objects, M+ also acquires archives. Kevin Forkan, Head, Archives and Library, explains the difference: “Archival objects are ob- jects that can only be understood in the context of the rest of the items with which they belong; they need to be comprehended as part of a whole.” With a collection of both museum objects and archival material, the staff needed to find a way to catalogue and care for both objects and archives properly. “Everything runs from TMS. The acqu

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