What Next for Stored Collections?
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The document discusses increasing access to and use of stored museum collections. It notes that while making collections more accessible is good in principle, in practice there is still progress to be made. Several actions are proposed to help raise awareness and promote use of stored collections, including improving policies, advocacy, research engagement, and technology use. The overall goal is to transform stored collections from a resource drain to a success story for museums.
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What Next for Stored Collections?
- 1. WHAT NEXT FOR STORED COLLECTIONS? Nick Poole, Chief Executive, Collections Trust 27.01.09
- 2. “ Memory feeds imagination,” said Amy Tan, and if a nation has a collective memory, this is it. There are things here that exist nowhere else on earth.” Look what we’ve got in store The Guardian, 2 nd September 2004
- 3. Making stored collections more accessible is a good thing in principle.
- 4. In practice, there’s a long way still to go...
- 5. We need to find ways of raising the public and media perception that the ability to use collections in store is part of the national museums offer...
- 6. We need to understand what ‘use’ of stored collections means, how it benefits the user and how it benefits our museums...
- 7. We need to change our working practice based on a clear understanding of what kinds of ‘use’ we want to support and promote.
- 8. We need to raise awareness among funders of the range of activity relating to the use of collections in store and the need to support it.
- 9. We need to understand how material in store can be used to support the needs of the research community of which we are part.
- 10. We need to get to grips with the ways in which technology may be able to help us with some or all of the previous points...
- 19. Sorting out the issue of access to and use of stored collections has the potential to be a really powerful step forward for museums. There is an opportunity to be proactive in taking something which is potentially a drain on public resources and turning it into a success story. Over to you...
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- Blythe House, the Science Museum store in London – just before public tours of the store began
- Blythe House, the Science Museum store in London – just before public tours of the store began
- Blythe House, the Science Museum store in London – just before public tours of the store began
- Blythe House, the Science Museum store in London – just before public tours of the store began
- Blythe House, the Science Museum store in London – just before public tours of the store began
- Blythe House, the Science Museum store in London – just before public tours of the store began
- Blythe House, the Science Museum store in London – just before public tours of the store began
- Blythe House, the Science Museum store in London – just before public tours of the store began
- Blythe House, the Science Museum store in London – just before public tours of the store began
- Blythe House, the Science Museum store in London – just before public tours of the store began
- Blythe House, the Science Museum store in London – just before public tours of the store began
- Blythe House, the Science Museum store in London – just before public tours of the store began
- Blythe House, the Science Museum store in London – just before public tours of the store began
- Blythe House, the Science Museum store in London – just before public tours of the store began
- Blythe House, the Science Museum store in London – just before public tours of the store began
- Blythe House, the Science Museum store in London – just before public tours of the store began
- Blythe House, the Science Museum store in London – just before public tours of the store began