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From: "Dr. Christian Müller-Straten" <verlagcms@t-online>
To: "Museum discussion list" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [MUSEUM-L] cataloguing objects on an old mine site
Dear Marcia,
The museological answer is: Do not be frightened by the number of objects. Do not collect everything. First, you need a mission and a collection strategy. For telling "the story of the mine" you do need any nail. If 4 pieces of a kind of objects provide you with no more information than one piece, collect only one piece and do your documentation well. Get rid about the rest (ask other museums if they are interested in the rest).
Best wishes
Christian
"Marcia McLean" <[log in to unmask]> schrieb:
> Hello:
>
> The following questions came to me from a mining museum that is situated
> on the actual mine site. I thought that perhaps others working in
> industrial museums would have some helpful suggestions.
>
> Our museum is unique in that many artifacts in our care are still useful
> in restoration and upkeep (within their intended purpose). How are we
> to keep these artifacts marked, and tracked?
>
> Many of our machines and structures require specific pieces of equipment
> often from our collection, but sometimes obtained through second hand
> sales situations, we often find ourselves wondering: what if, in fifty
> years we're not here and someone stumbles on to this piece (actually
> obtained from an outside source) and mistakes it for a period piece,
> native to our museum?
>
> Piles of Scrap?
> Our museum is different than many museums which exist in a single
> building, we have 74 acres of land much of it is covered in artifacts,
> ranging from pieces of rebar to our four story tipple to five hundred
> pound coal cars to our collection of 100 carbide lamps and over twenty
> buildings. Now we are dealing with the task of recording, and
> cataloguing the artifacts from the Blacksmith's shop, the fact is that
> there are so many artifacts up there that to mark each piece would
> require a database of its own. Also this process, which would require
> an enormous amount of time, would likely be useless, as many of the
> artifacts are small metal fragments many of which would fit into the
> same category, for example: 55 pieces of grizzly bar between 11 and 15
> cm. Do you have any suggestions on approaching the topic of making a
> meaningful and useful categorization for this project? Might it be
> useful to have a function group and a parts group??
>
> Thanks for any suggestions/solutions!
> Marcia
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> Alberta Museums Association
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