[BCMA] Too Much Stuff

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Hello,

I'm sure that our plight is not that much different than other museums in
the country but we find ourselves with stuffed storage areas. In fact we
are busting at the seams.

With other jobs behind us and as we enter 2014 we would like to tackle some
of the piles and I am looking for advice.

We are a small museum and really don't have any use for about 20 taxidermy
mounts which include birds and large mammal head mounts. The quality of the
work done would not make these great pieces for someones home or to pass to
another museum.

We also have an abundance of bottles and jars, typewriters, projectors, a
pipe organ, a piano, bicycles etc.

Is there a correct way to dispose of these items? We live in a small town
so a garage or estate type sale is simply out of the question. We do not
want to turn off potential donors who may have something really great to
donate but we can no longer continue to be the savior of everything.

Looking for any advice as we have never done done a wholesale deaccession
in our forty years!

Thanks in advance,

Colleen Palumbo

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Colleen Palumbo
Museum and Archives Manager
Box 992
Golden, BC
V0A 1H0

museum.golden at gmail.com
http://www.goldenbcmuseum.com
250-344-5169
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