[BCMA] Too Much Stuff

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv.]

One solution we found when doing a great purge many years ago was to 
give the metal pieces to a metal sculptor. You could check with a 
regional or local arts council for contacts.  Ours took all the old 
typewriters, broken farm equipment, etc and gave them new life. Good 
luck with the taxidermy.

Val Patenaude
Maple Ridge Museum & Archives


On 1/6/2014 8:26 AM, Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv. wrote:
> 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
>
> -- 
> Colleen Palumbo
> Museum and Archives Manager
> Box 992
> Golden, BC
> V0A 1H0
>
> museum.golden at gmail.com <mailto:museum.golden at gmail.com>
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