Address at the European Museum Advisors Conference 2012. Defends deaccession in deaccession averse countries within the context of the emergent financial crisis, and the increasing interference of finance ministries and external advisors in daily museum management. Clear guidelines, transparency, self-regulation are the best protection against external top-down decisions on what museums can do away with.

1. Say that again ?!

2. DEACCESSIONING
WITHIN
A POLICY OF
SUSTAINABILITY
Ines Fialho Brandao | COLLECT AND SHARE |

3. Sale
Transfer
Donation
Disposal

4. Horatius Defends Rome Against the
Etruscans, follower of Tiepolo
Cleveland Musem of Art
SOLD
€335 000

5. Femme au Fauteuil, Henri Matisse
Art Institute of Chicago
SOLD
€990 000

6. Still Life with Guitar, Braque
Art Institute of Chicago
SOLD
€4 955 000

7. Les Demoiselles
d’Avignon, Pablo
Picasso
MoMA

8. Educational
materials

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10. Storage, Storage, Storage!

11. Storage
costs

12. 66% lack of space
50% overcrowded storage units
40% large backlog of objects
33% lack of regular cleaning
20% active pest infestation
20% items stored outside storage
areas
10% object theft

13.  why do museums
store objects whose
medium- and long-term
care they are
unable to provide?

15. € 230 000

16. € 46 615

17. ISSUES

25. ESSENTIAL VALUES
MUSEUM MISSION
DEACCESSION
Professionalism Consensus Documentation Accountability
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28. Baroness Carmen Thyssen Bornemisza to sell "The Lock" by John Constable at Christie's 30/ 05/ 2012 14:09
The First Art Newspaper on the Net Established in 1996 Portugal Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Baroness Carmen Thyssen Bornemisza to sell "The Lock" by John Constable at Christie's
John Constable, R.A. (East Bergholt, Suffolk 1776-1837 London), The Lock. Oil on canvas, 56 x 47.1/2 in. (142.2 x 120.7 cm.) in the original gilt plaster and carved
wood frame. Estimate: £20,000,000 – 25,000,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
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LONDON.- Christie’s will offer The Lock by John Constable (1776-1837) at the Old Master & British Paintings Evening Auction on Tuesday 3 July. The
sale of this masterpiece represents a major moment for the international art market as collectors from all over the world convene in London for the
summer sales. One of six paintings that make up the artist’s most celebrated series of large scale works which also includes The Hay Wain, now in The