Deaccessioning for Resilience and Relevance - Day 2/Session 4 - Small Museums Summit

Over the years, many small museums have been saddled with “wholesale” donations including hundreds of items not relevant to the mission of the organization. These items take up valuable storage and/or program space, drain resources, and prevent the museum from collecting more relevant objects. Maintaining and caring for collections that do not meet our mission is not sustainable, and the outcomes of a well-thought-out deaccessioning process can significantly contribute to the environmental and financial resilience of your organization and strengthen your relevance to your community. In this session, we will explore some tools to make deaccession do-able for small museums and consider how deaccessioning “best practices” in the wider museum field do or do not serve small museum

the project, as it was slowed down significantly by COVID.

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