What a regional museum with volunteer staff can actually do about security

I spent three years coordinating security for a regional gallery where the roster was built around who could make it in on a Tuesday. Some weeks that was two people. Some weeks it was one, and she was also running the front desk, answering the phone, and trying to remember whether the back door had […]

How electronic key logs actually get checked after an incident

Three weeks ago I was onsite at a storage facility in Alexandria, going through an access control upgrade with the site manager, when she asked me a question that stopped me for a second: “If something walked out of here tomorrow, who would actually go and look at the key log, and how?” She’d never […]

Security considerations when consignment stock piles up

A Flinders Lane dealer rang me in March with what she thought was a good problem. Three estates had come to her at once, all wanting to consign through her gallery before a spring auction cycle, and suddenly she had 40 more works on her walls and in her back room than she’d budgeted floor […]