Hello all,

I have just become the new director of a small rural museum. We have found
a couple of things - a desk and a church pew - which have been used by
volunteers (the desk is our geneaologist's desk) and were just discovered
to have been accessioned artifacts. The team just noticed in moving things
around that these pieces had accession numbers, and thus are parts of our
collection. So, I am wondering how to proceed; should we...

Maintain the accessioned status and stop using the items?
Maintain the accessioned status and continue using the items, perhaps with
plexi covering the desk top, etc. or archival fabris covering the church
pew?
De-accession the desk and pew to be used in the museum?

This is a tough one, and as an emerging professional, I have not run into
this issue yet. Thank you for your suggestions,

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