[BCMA] Too Much Stuff

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Hi Colleen, 

You might want to consider taking a course such as Athabasca University's HERM 322: Heritage Collections. Here's an excerpt from the course syllabus: 

[HERM 322] deals with the acquisition, documentation, storage, and preservation of collections. Attention is also given to discarding materials from collections and issues surrounding access to collections." 

The full syllabus may be found here: http://www.athabascau.ca/syllabi/herm/herm322.php 

While this course is part of a larger program, we also welcome visiting students, and it is very easy to just take one course without getting involved with the whole program. If you did decide to carry on with further studies any time in the future, the course can be applied to either the University Certificate or to the Post Baccalaureate Diploma in Heritage Resources Management, and is also transferable to programs at many other post-secondary institutions. 

Full program details may be found on our website here: 

http://heritage.resources.athabascau.ca/ 

Let me know if I can answer any more questions for you. 

Regards, 

Joseph J. Rosich 
Administration and Production Coordinator 
Heritage Resources Management / Historical Resources Intern Program 
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences 
Athabasca University 
1 University Drive Athabasca, AB T9S 3A3 
E-mail: joer at athabascau.ca 
Toll Free Telephone: 1-800-788-9041 ext. 6955 (Canada and the US) 
Direct Office Telephone: (780) 675-6955 
FAX: (780) 675-6921 
http://heritage.resources.athabascau.ca/ 

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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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