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Dieuwertje Wijsmuller2018-05-29T13:18:28+01:00Categories: Denmark|
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'. Read the whole article and the responses here on Politiken.dk [...]
Dieuwertje Wijsmuller2018-04-16T20:44:48+01:00Categories: Italy|
(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 in 1987 and managed by the International Institute of Papyrus, founded by Anna Di Na [...]
Dieuwertje Wijsmuller2018-04-05T12:24:06+01:00Categories: UK|
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 to try and stop Hertfordshire County Council selling off its publicly-owned art collec [...]
Dieuwertje Wijsmuller2018-02-08T13:22:16+01:00Categories: Guidelines, News, The Netherlands|
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 [...]
Dieuwertje Wijsmuller2018-01-30T13:37:47+01:00Categories: UK|
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. [...]
Dieuwertje Wijsmuller2018-01-10T12:31:27+01:00Categories: UK|
"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 standards of the sector, and which approached the often perplexing matter of museum di [...]
Dieuwertje Wijsmuller2018-01-04T11:19:11+01:00Categories: Austria, Guidelines, Legislation|Tags: sale|
September 2017: The online auction with decommissioned parliamentary furniture ends on Tuesday. Interested museums must join in, as the parliamentary administration wanted to avoid "unequal treatment" [...] Unlike the Vienna Museum, the Museum of Applied Arts or the House of History, [...]
Dieuwertje Wijsmuller2017-12-13T15:14:57+01:00Categories: Portugal|
December 2017: The City Council of Porto will pay for the maintenance and insurance of the collection of the Catalan artist Juan Miró, after the government chose the city to welcome it permanently, announced this Tuesday the mayor Rui Moreira. read full article on Correio da manhã (or [...]
Dieuwertje Wijsmuller2017-12-13T15:08:09+01:00Categories: Portugal|
September 2016: The fate of the Portuguese government’s collection of 85 Joan Miró paintings, which was on the verge of being auctioned off in 2014, has finally been determined. On Monday, Prime Minister Antonio Costa announced that the government had “finally decided to keep the famo [...]
Dieuwertje Wijsmuller2017-12-13T14:56:06+01:00Categories: France, News|Tags: unethical disposal|
April 2014: The Conseil Général de Côte-d’Or was about to sell a 19th century painting for a modest estimate between 2 to 3,000€ on 6 April in Dijon at Sadde auctioneers. The work used to hang on the wall of the courtroom at Semur-en-Auxois until it closed and the painting then turne [...]
