Hi Mike,
The National Gallery, London always includes unique inventory numbers on gallery labels and online catalogue entries for accessioned objects and long loans in to the permanent collection.
We include the Gallery's own internal inventory numbers on exhibition labels for short loans in to loan exhibitions but they are published online only if a specific online catalogue is created for the exhibition. Present policy is to exclude short loans in to loan exhibitions from the main online catalogue.
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Subject: [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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