Danish Agency of culture and palaces shocks museums with message at a meeting in Sweden: Museums' collections' are filled with old rattle, Three out of four objects at Danish museums can be discarded' [...]
(photo credits: Giovanni Dall'Orto 2014) A museum that literally sells its works to finance itself. In this case, its fragments, for it is the Museo del Papiro di Siracusa private institution, created [...]
Petition to stop Hertfordshire County Council selling off its public art collection gathers over a thousand signatures The council wants to 'dispose of' 91 per cent of its art collection. A petition t [...]
Museum Nusantara has closed its doors due to budget cuts. In order to keep the deaccessioning and disposal process as transparant as possible, all steps of the process are published on this website [...]
The Council of Hertfordshire is planning to deaccession about 90% of its collection. Before this is executed, they are asking the public for advise. Read more on the Hertfordshire website. [...]
"The Museum of London’s aim when starting a large scale rationalisation project was to create a collection for the future. We sought to embark upon a disposal project which fulfilled all the ethical s [...]