Disposal

Collections Significance Assessment Toolkit launched for Welsh museums

Invite communities to be part of discussions around significance, urges publication

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Disposal: embracing openness and transparency

Laura Pye and Janet Dugdale chart the progress of the De Wadden schooner disposal

Charity law change paves way for disposal on moral grounds

Institute of Art and Law says legislation will give national museums more leeway on restitution

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It’s time for the sector to embrace disposals

MA has convened a new working group on the issue

Give nationals more freedom to deaccession objects, says Hunt

V&A chief says National Heritage Act should be overhauled to hand power back to trustees

National Museums Liverpool consults on ship disposal

De Wadden is a 1917 three-masted schooner built in the Netherlands

Q&A | ‘It’s not bad at all that there will be conflicts and difference’

Artist Anthony Schrag tells us about a new exhibition at Perth Museum where the public will vote for their most valued objects

At your disposal

An online platform that will enable museums to sell objects to the public has put deaccessioning under the spotlight once more

Northampton Museum & Art Gallery unveils revamp funded by Sekhemka sale

Institution reopens to the public after controversial capital development

Society of Antiquaries fights to remain at London home after huge rent increase

Charity warns it may need to sell items from its collection to fund move to new premises

Royal College of Physicians mulls sale of rare books despite protest

The college has been working with an auction house to understand the practicalities of an asset sale

Royal Academy has ‘no intention’ of selling Michelangelo sculpture to save jobs

The institution is facing calls to sell the marble Taddei Tondo, thought to be worth more than £100m