18 Mar
2022
18 Mar
'22
11:46 a.m.
On Mar 18, 2022, at 1:31 PM, Dave Wade G4UGM via
cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I missed a lot of this because g-mail decided to bounce some e-mails.
I would like to make a couple of observations:-
1. Many real accredited museums have a smaller percentage of their artifacts
on display than private collectors. In the UK both TNMOC and the Science
Museum Group have large quantities of hardware that is not displayed.
The science museum usually catalogues it but it is not really helpful if you
can't see it.
They might also get rid of stuff, not necessarily for an obvious reason. I saw a case of
this recently, in the Dutch museum Boerhaave in Leiden, which is a national
science-related museum. For a number of years they had on display the world's oldest
broadcast transmitter, an FM transmitter from 1919 invented in The Hague by Hanso Idzerda.
Some time recently it was removed from the museum collection. In that case it went back
to the organization it came from, the Picture and Sound Institute, but whether it will be
displayed by them is not clear. In any case, that's an example of the uncertain
future of artefacts in museum collections.
paul