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CECOMM Conference 2010

Deaccession and Disposal of Museum Objects. CECOMM Conference 2010. Janneke Hermans Ph.D. Curator Telecommunication Technologies Museum voor Communicatie, The Hague, The Netherlands 15 November 2010. Content . Deaccession procedures in the Netherlands;

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CECOMM Conference 2010

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  1. Deaccession and Disposal of Museum Objects CECOMM Conference 2010 Janneke Hermans Ph.D. Curator Telecommunication Technologies Museum voor Communicatie, The Hague, The Netherlands 15 November 2010

  2. Content • Deaccession procedures in the Netherlands; • Case of deaccession telephones in Museum voor Communicatie.

  3. Why Deaccession? Overrepresentation; Broken; Health/environmental risks; Collection mobility and visibility; Nation of origin/original context; Treatment is finished; Substitution; Knowledge incomplete; Replaceability. Improvement quality collection; Not museum quality; Change in collection policy; Usage; Isolation; Lack of interest; Decreasing administrative burdens; Duplicate objects;

  4. 4 phases of Deaccession • Preparation • Selection • Relocation • Rounding off project

  5. Tools selection criteria • Use collection plan; • Deltaplan criteria (1990): • > A: Irreplaceable and indispensable objects or sub-collections: • verification value, linkage value, symbolic value; • > B: Objects and sub-collections with high presentation/attraction value, genealogical value, ensemble value and documentation value; • > C: Objects or sub-collections that fit the museums mission statement but do not meet the A and B criteria; • > D: Objects or sub-collections that never should haven been inventoried.

  6. Tools for disposal • www.herplaatsingsdatabase.nl • Relocation database set up by Dutch Institute for Cultural Heritage • www.haaleenstukjemuseuminhuis.nl • eBay, ‘obtain a piece of a museum’ - Auction House

  7. Deaccession telephones • 1975: Legacy mr. H.G. Broos • Containing around 1700 objects, mostly telephones. • Most was inventoried. • Around 450 telephones not inventoried.

  8. Physically brought together

  9. Selection criteria - Homogeneous group of objects, no known contextual information; • Do we already have it? • If not: is it a valuable addition to our collection (rare type, used in the Netherlands) • If yes: could we use a second specimen or a better equipped one?

  10. Disposal • Description and tagging of 471 telephones • Auction House • Various telephones per lot • Exception for rare telephones

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