I came across the same issue recently -- if the information on the museum label also appears on the museum's website or collection catalogs (which it often does), those sources can be cited instead.
Jennifer
Jennifer Yao
Reference & Instruction Librarian
Adam & Sophie Gimbel Design Library
The New School Libraries
2 West 13th Street
New York, NY 10011
212-229-8914 ext.4285
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I've checked the indexes of Chicago, MLA, Turabian, and Evidence
Explained without finding any guidelines for citing museum labels. A
professor of Egyptology has asked me for advice. Her students are
writing their research papers about single objects in nearby museum
collections. Some of them may want to cite museum labels among their
sources.
I can find some suggestions online, but none so far that seems
authoritative. I welcome your suggestions. I'm sure that museum
librarians must have preferences, at least, about how labels are cited.
Norine Duncan
Scholarly Resources Dept.
Brown University Library
Providence, RI 02912
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