1 Feb
2012
1 Feb
'12
1:40 p.m.
I know the feeling, but [throwing them out]
wouldn't be
unprecedented. We (the museum - including me) throw out a lot of
stuff and there are widely-varying opinions about what to toss and
what to keep. We have very limited space (we just got rid of a couple
of dozen low-end tube scopes), the teks do take up a lot of space,
and I'm one of the few/only there who appreciates them.
Without wishing to re-ignite that particualr flame, I feel that some
people associeted with said museum need to be LARTed. Now,
When a donation is accepted by a museum (and of course the museum has the
right to refuse any donaton), the donor should expect that the item will
be preserved and not thrown out. Surely if the msueum doens't want
somethign it owns, it should offer it to other museums, and failing that
to collectors (such as this list), or sell it (if the donor hasn't
specified that the item must not be sold) to raise money for the museum.
No, a pricate collector may not conserve stuff in the same way a msueum
should. But a skip (dumpster) won't conserve it at all.
-tony