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Collections Report
Meeting: 11/03/2019 - Museum Committee (Item 6)
6 Collections Report PDF 143 KB
Additional documents:
- HMAG Collections Management Framework, item 6 PDF 278 KB
- HMAG Care and Treatment of Human Remains Policy, item 6 PDF 148 KB
- HMAG Loans Policy, item 6 PDF 152 KB
Minutes:
The Museum and Cultural Development Manager presented a report to update the Committee on collections care, access, acquisitions, loans and objects being considered for rationalisation. The report also includes collections policies for review.
The museum’s offsite store has now been moved. This work was undertaken as the building has been allocated as the main depot for the council’s new in-house street cleaning service. The collections were cleaned, checked and packed by the museum team with support from other council colleagues before being moved to a new temporary storage facility. The museum aims to eliminate the need for an offsite store over the next two years through the reorganisation of current storage arrangements and through a targeted programme of rationalisation.
Since November the curators have received 165 enquires related to the collections and the Local Studies Room has been well used since its re-opening in November.
The Committee discussed the report and the attached policies.
Mr Peak proposed a motion to approve the recommendations in the report, seconded by Mrs Purdey.
RESOLVED (unanimously):
To accept this report and recommend approval by Cabinet.
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