Expert
Thirty years’ experience inside major museums, applied at any scale
Private Collections Management & Legacy Planning
Diverse collections. Experience to match.
TwoCaledonias is a private collections management and legacy planning practice, working with collectors, artists, musicians, estates, family offices, and corporate collections nationwide. Thirty years of museum collections work stands behind it: independent guidance across documentation and care, relocation and logistics, research, and the decisions about the future of collections.
Services
Approach
As exacting as the collection requires
Museum standard practice: assessment, preservation, security, and long-term planning, at the scale each collection requires
Independent
Every recommendation and action answers to one interest: yours
Hands-on
Direct involvement in the work itself — cataloging, preserving, handling, transit
Connected
A network built over three decades: museums, conservators, curators, handlers, and specialists across collection types
Collections
No two collections alike
From newly formed collections to holdings built over generations — objects, archives, and images, from archaeology to music to modern art and design
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Services
A comprehensive approach to collections management
Most collections are built over decades, one decision at a time. The work of caring for them properly — knowing what they hold, keeping them safe, deciding where they go — is what turns a private passion into something that lasts.
Collections Management & Storage
Assessment, inventory, preservation, and storage — so a collection is safe, findable, and understood by anyone who comes to it
Learn more →Collections Relocation & Logistics
Moving a collection or shipping a single object — packed, insured, tracked, and delivered without incident
Learn more →Collections Research
Identifying and contextualizing what a collection holds — what these objects are, where they came from, and why they matter
Learn more →Exhibitions & Loans
Curatorial planning and the practicalities of lending — so a collection is seen, studied, and taken seriously beyond its own walls
Learn more →Art Handling & Framing
Installation and handling to museum standards, coordinated with trusted specialist partners
Learn more →Philanthropic Advisory & Placement
Gifts, bequests, and donations — matching a collection with an institution that will value it and managing the transfer
Learn more →Buildings & Properties
Purpose-built rooms and buildings, renovations, and identifying properties that can safely house a collection
Learn more →Insurance & Emergency Planning
Planning for what can go wrong — fire, water, storm, theft — and documenting a collection so it is properly covered
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Contact
Start a conversation
Whether the need is clear or still taking shape, a conversation is the best place to begin — no collection is too small or too unusual to ask about.
Or write directly:
hello@twocaledonias.com