Disposal
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
Disposal is key to a healthy museum
More than 10 years ago, I published an article in Cultural Trends about a research project I had undertaken as part of my Clore Leadership Fellowship. I was concerned that museums were continuing to increase their collections, while complaining that stores were full. Object disposals were still relatively infrequent, partly because justifying them seemed based …
Disposal case study: Tiverton Museum of Mid Devon Life
Nick Booth and Pippa Griffith on a small museum rationalisation project
Disposal case study: Royal College of Physicians Museum
Lowri Jones on the challenges and rewards of a rationalisation project
Disposal case study: Royal Albert Memorial Museum
Jenny Durrant shares the learning from a disposal project that came out of a wider collections review
Disposal case study: National Museums Scotland
Tacye Phillipson explains why looking at past disposals can help inform future work
Disposal case study: Science Museum
Hannah Brignell shares an ongoing collections review of 7.3 million items
Disposal case study: Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Rosalyn Sklar shares an ambitious collections review project