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CECOMM Conference 2010
Janneke Hermans Ph.D.
Curator Telecommunication Technologies
Museum voor Communicatie, The Hague, The Netherlands
15 November 2010
Deaccession and Disposal of Museum Objects
- Deaccession procedures in the Netherlands;
- Case of deaccession telephones in Museum voor Communicatie.
Content
- Improvement quality collection;- Not museum quality;- Change in collection policy;- Usage;- Isolation;- Lack of interest;- Decreasing administrative burdens;- Duplicate objects;
- Overrepresentation;- Broken;- Health/environmental risks;- Collection mobility and visibility;- Nation of origin/original context;- Treatment is finished;- Substitution;- Knowledge incomplete;- Replaceability.
Why Deaccession?
• Preparation• Selection• Relocation• Rounding off project
4 phases of Deaccession
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.
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
Deaccession telephones
- 1975: Legacy mr. H.G. Broos
- Containing around 1700 objects, mostly telephones.
- Most was inventoried.
- Around 450 telephones not inventoried.
Physically brought together
- 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?
Selection criteria
• Description and tagging of 471 telephones• Auction House• Various telephones per lot• Exception for rare telephones
Disposal