14 May
2014
14 May
'14
5:58 p.m.
On 13/05/14 11:56 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
On 5/13/14 2:26 AM, Dave wrote:
What compels them to do that?
what happened to all the stuff from the Boston
Museum.?
It went to another museum, EXACTLY what is SUPPOSED to happen with
artifacts placed
into a public trust.
There is a formal accessioning and deacessioning process that museums
have to go through
for any artifact in a collection.
If an artifact is redundant, in poor condition, or is out of scope, the
institution can
de-acession something in its collection but the process is not simple,
and they have to
make an effort to try to offer it to another museum.
A collector cold-calling a museum wanting to buy an artifact only
irritates the person you contact.
And just to make it clear, the Computer History Museum has a policy that
NOTHING offered or in our
collection is EVER sold.
Does that include given away?
--Toby
The Computer Museum had a different policy, and
had artifacts in their gift
shop, we do not.
Please DO NOT contact CHM about trying to buy physical objects.