#deaccession

[conservallama]

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[curatorsday]

Monday, April 22, 2024

Back to work! After getting myself reoriented, I picked up some loose ends from my art storage reorganization project. I had identified several pieces to potentially deaccession so today I wrote up justifications for our collections committee meeting later this week.

[panicinthestudio]

Exclusive: Hong Kong public libraries purge 29 titles about the Tiananmen Massacre from the shelves

Hong Kong public libraries over the past 12 years have removed 29 out of 149 books about the Tiananmen Massacre from their shelves, a total of 263 individual copies, a review by HKFP has found. Of the 120 titles still stocked, just 26 are displayed on the shelves and immediately available for borrowing. The remaining 94 are only available on request, are stored in off-site book reserves, or are housed in reference sections where they can be read but not borrowed.

[museeeuuuum]

New video!

Let's talk about museums and why loosening rules around the deaccesion of artifacts from collections is BAD.

https://youtu.be/G8XI2pecsM0

I won't lie, this video was rough to make so if my energy levels seems a little off please bare with me 🧡

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[hydeordie]

Clean House to Survive? Museums Confront Their Crowded Basements

With storage spaces filled with works that may never be shown, some museums are rethinking the way they collect art, and at least one is ranking what it owns.

[moneymasteryhubonline]

The Phillips Collections moves forward with controversial deaccession plan.

The Phillips Collection will proceed with plans to sell major works by Georgia O’Keeffe, Arthur Dove, and Georges Seurat at Sotheby’s next week, a move that has triggered sharp backlash from former curators, members of the Phillips family, and a faction of the museum’s governing members board. According to The Washington Post, the works—long considered central to founder Duncan Phillips’s…

[curatorsday]

Monday, April 1, 2024

I spent the day working in collections again, this time processing deaccessions.

[luxmentis]

I’ve seen a lot of different ‘Withdrawn’ marking on books removed from private and public collections. I now have a new favorite: Condemned. #exlibris #deaccession #medicalhistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CTsCQtjrQsW/?utm_medium=tumblr