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Hello all,
Thank you for your feedback and comments. We do have a disposal policy and have undertaken disposal procedures few years ago due to the flood. I am actually trying to work out if social history disposal policy would work for World Cultures objects, but it is proving slightly tricky and not as transferrable as i thought it would be.
Cheers,
Ran
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The MA Disposal Toolkit (http://www.museumsassociation.org/download?id=15852) is quite useful for this kind of exercise - particularly pp.8-10. An accessioned object that falls within your current collecting policy could (depending very much on the specific item, collection and policy) nevertheless be assessed to be underused and of lower cultural significance within the overall collection, such that removal from the permanent collection (which you may consider handling to be as the risk of loss/damage/destruction increases so much) is justified. In other words, it might be accessioned and generally relevant to the collection but if you wouldn't collect it today and the probability of exhibition or even a specialist wanting to look at it in the future is low, would it better reassigned to handling use than sitting in the store for eternity?
That said, in doing the research on items we were considering for handling we've sometimes uncovered previously unidentified connections e.g. an unprovenanced WW2-era Morse-type switch that turned out to be a type used in the cockpit of our Spitfire - it's certainly not unique and we have subsequently shown it to visitors, but in supervised small group handling in the museum rather than putting it in a loans box or similar. So going through the assessment process thoroughly is well worthwhile.
Kind regards
Jack
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Sorry I should have been clearer about what I was asking for in previous email. I am interested in how other museums/curators decide to 'let go' of an accessioned object into unsupervised handling collection that goes out on loan to schools/communities. What basis or guidelines do you guys have in place that curators use and/or follow to make this decision? I understand mainly objects which have duplications, are unaccessioned and/or have no provenance they generally go into handling, but would be interested to know if there's other practice other there ....
Cheers,
Ran
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Sent: 24 April 2012 10:45
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Dear all,
I am wondering if anybody is willing to share their handling guidelines with me please. Our Learning team is setting up more handling objects and will be useful to get a sense of idea how other museums are approaching this especially with accessioned objects. Thank you in advance. You can email me directly [log in to unmask]
Cheers,
Ran
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