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Creating a Collection: A Tour Through the Smith College Museum of ArtMain MenuHow do museums build and unbuild collections?How This WorksInstructions on How to Use this WebsiteHow to Read a Museum LabelThis will help you navigate the SCMA and other museumsWhat is "Public Trust"?Why Museums CollectHow Museums CollectWhy Museums Remove Objects from their CollectionsSamantha Page4d4aad3cbb232d6b14d08c9a79a502129237df5c
How Museums Remove Objects from their Collections
12017-04-02T10:33:07-07:00Samantha Page4d4aad3cbb232d6b14d08c9a79a502129237df5c1562318structured_gallery2017-05-05T12:37:57-07:00Samantha Page4d4aad3cbb232d6b14d08c9a79a502129237df5cSo you want to take an object out of your collection? Here we'll explore how museums go about making this type of change, considering it is a difficult and sometimes controversial thing, as well as an important part of maintaining a collection.
First, let's keep in mind what we know about "public trust." Museums don't just think about who visits in the present day, but they also think about future visitors. When the SCMA decides to remove an object from its collection, the staff members involved have to be very careful in deciding HOW to deaccession.
Click on these links or one of the artworks below to see what these ideas look like when put into practice at the SCMA.
Also, check out these additional sources on deaccessioning in museums.
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12017-03-08T08:39:35-08:00Samantha Page4d4aad3cbb232d6b14d08c9a79a502129237df5cHow do museums build and unbuild collections?Samantha Page38structured_gallery2017-05-05T11:33:04-07:00Samantha Page4d4aad3cbb232d6b14d08c9a79a502129237df5c
12017-04-02T11:01:30-07:00Samantha Page4d4aad3cbb232d6b14d08c9a79a502129237df5cSale or transfer of objects14structured_gallery2017-05-05T12:53:56-07:00Samantha Page4d4aad3cbb232d6b14d08c9a79a502129237df5c
12017-04-02T10:59:15-07:00Samantha Page4d4aad3cbb232d6b14d08c9a79a502129237df5cCareful consideration and approval14structured_gallery2017-05-05T12:51:42-07:00Samantha Page4d4aad3cbb232d6b14d08c9a79a502129237df5c
12017-04-02T11:02:21-07:00Samantha Page4d4aad3cbb232d6b14d08c9a79a502129237df5cPurposeful Use of Funds7structured_gallery2017-05-05T12:52:35-07:00Samantha Page4d4aad3cbb232d6b14d08c9a79a502129237df5c
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12017-04-02T10:46:48-07:00"A Deaccession Reader" by Stephen Weil, 19972Stephen Weil, ed., A Deaccession Readermedia/weil_deaccessionreader_1997.jpgplain2017-05-05T12:37:21-07:00
