MUSEUM MUSINGS: Marketing, Mobiles & Deaccession

This site, bickersteth.blogspot.com.au, offers all kinds of insights into the MUSEUMworld. The entries on Mobiles and museums - the next stage and The real via the virtual – Google Art expands are especially insightful. The site is not VISUALLYrich but museum administrators, it would seem, would be well served by following this BLOG.

The Musing Museums BLOG does not shrink from the contentious deaccessioning issue with four entries on the topic. Its an issue that in our current difficult economic times that is likely to arise to 'balance the books' in the short term. Mostly deaccessioning shouldn't happen – and certainly not for short term pragmatic reasons in public galleries and museums.

There is always the risk of corruption when deaccession is on the agenda– and there are many examples to be found if one goes turning over catalogues in the backrooms of far too many museums and art galleries.

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