Buying something from a museum (was Re: Whats in a straight 8

14 May 2014

...

  And just to make it clear, the Computer History
Museum has a policy that
 NOTHING offered or in our
 collection is EVER sold.  That means? Everything that ever arrives at CHM will
never leave again?
 I personally do not like "black hole policies". They mean that the CHM 
 wouldn't even help out a collector like me with a spare part it would 
 never need again... 
Certainly many UK museusm do have a 'black hole policy' as you put it. 
And this is one reason (the main reason) why I will not donate anything 
to a museum.

I would rather my machines get used and enjoyed than sit i na museum 
store soemwhere.

Incidentaly, my expeirence suggests that msueums have a similar policy 
with information. I have never had a useful reply to a quesiton from _any_ 
UK museum (not jsut comptuer ones). Perhaps I've been unlucky, but I find 
private colelctors a lot more helpful.

-tony

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Buying something from a museum (was Re: Whats in a straight 8