13 May
2014
13 May
'14
8:56 a.m.
On 5/13/14 2:26 AM, Dave wrote:
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. 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.