Museums are important public institutes that inform the society of historical and contemporary cultural artifacts through their collections, be influence on development and education in the cultural sense of persons. New management policies play an important role in multifunction of museums. Alongside transferring spesific historical knowledge to viewers and being one of the means of art education, these places as effective mass media organs which are easily accessible, are getting ready to reach a lot more viewers. Museums are developing various strategies that will attract the viewer and reviewing all of the systems inside to outside with an innovative aspect. One of these systems in collection buildings which are quite important for contemporary plot of museology. According to today’s understanding of museology, managing a collection is as necessary as creating a collection and requires being assiduous. Parameters like criteria of collecting artwork, making inventory, protection and maintaining artworks, the way of exhibition and conceptional dimension which is expected to be built between collection and viewer, emphasize the necessity of management policies. There are decisive factors of making a collection management policy. To prevent making irreversibly wrong policies and failure, being able to get the results intented with regards to museology principles, these factors should be taken into consideration. In this research, clarification of importance of making collection management policies in terms of museology and identifying of regulatory factors are being aimed. In this research, analysis of documents has been applied as the data collecting technique, written sources related to the issue have been used. Descriptive analysis technique has been used as data analysis technique. Quotations have been made, data have been summarized and interpretations have been made according to themes and themes have been connected.
Keywords: Museum, collection, collection management.