Kathryn;

I know that there are a large number of these, but their owners and/or
curators are seldom part of the museum/heritage "loop". There are
exceptions, such as the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto or the Seagram Museum in
Waterloo, Ontario. Now that I think of it, most of the corporate museums I
know are owned by whiskey distillers!

Most corporate collections are, unfortunately, relatively invisible to the
paying public, even well-established ones such as the Hudson Bay Company's
incredible archives. They become known when they are donated to public
museums, as in the case of the J. M. Pascal Tool Collection at the Canadian
Museum of Civilization or are opened as adjuncts of commercial operations.
It is well known to the woodworking community that Leonard Lee, founder of
Lee Valley Tools and Veritas Tools, has amassed a large collection of
antique tools and we hear rumblings of the development of a museum in
Ottawa, based on this collection.


Harry Needham
Special Advisor - Programme Development
Canadian War Museum
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> From:         Kathryn Glenn[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
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> Sent:         Thursday, July 01, 1999 1:32 PM
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> Subject:      corporate collections
>
> I am wondering if there exisis some sort of finding aid or listing of
> corporations, or institutions which are not museums or libraries, which
> have
> their own art/artifact collections?  Thanks for your help.
>
> Kathryn
>
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