Denmark: Museums are filled with old rattle
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 [...]
Syracuse Papyrus Museum sells its fragments: “We have no money, we risk closure”
(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 Institut [...]
Hertfordshire County Council wants to sell off its public art collection
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 sellin [...]
Project website on the deaccessioning process of Museum Nusantara (Delft, NL)
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 [...]
Hertfordshire Council consults on disposing part of its art collection
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. [...]
Perspectives on disposal: Museum of London Review and Rationalisation Project
"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 o [...]
Museums have to bid for parliamentary furniture
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 App [...]
Câmara do Porto will pay for maintenance and insurance of the collection Juan Miró
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 f [...]
Debt-Ridden Portugal Will Keep Trove of Joan Miró Paintings Inside the Country
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 ha [...]
A Painting Withdrawn from Auction Thanks to the French Ministry of Culture
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 [...]