Expert
Thirty years’ experience inside major museums, applied at any scale
Private Collections Management & Legacy Planning
Diverse collections. Experience to match.
Sharon Aponte brings thirty years of museum collections work to private hands — collectors, artists, musicians, estates, family offices, and corporate collections nationwide. 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@sharonaponte.com