Hi there Mike,
Manchester Art Gallery publishes all accession numbers on-gallery unless a
mistake is made in the printing of the label text. And all on-gallery
objects should have a on-line catalogue entry, I say should just in case
someone does a walk around our Gallery and discovers any exceptions to
that.
We also try and publish accession numbers for any loans on-gallery.
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[MCG] Collections on-gallery & on-line?
Hello
I was down at Tate St Ives yesterday and being an interesting kind of
person (~cough~) I started looking at - and searching for - accession
numbers from the gallery labels using Google.
I was wondering if:
1) your institution always / sometimes / never puts accession numbers or
unique ID's on-gallery
and
2) whether your institution always / sometimes / never makes sure it has
online catalogue entries for items that end up being on-gallery.
My in-depth research (of about 5 pictures) at the Tate seemed to indicate
that everything I looked for was on their online catalogue with the
exception of the borrowed items which [obviously] weren't.
Anyway - any thoughts / info / anecdotes / research would make most
interesting reading to me..
thanks!
Mike
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