Hello everybody.

I am just finishing an internship in a 
kind of science center that will open year 2000.
(Le Centre interactif des sciences de Montréal, 
http://www.svpm.ca/isci)

As a museology student, my work was to propose them
a OBJECT MANAGEMENT POLICY, with procedures
and object management software.
But I had to face their particular 
NON-COLLECTING mission statement.
In fact, they want to have 
some kind of "virtual collection" on the WEB
of all the objects related to their 
exhibits or activities, but no real object.

My question is about the policy itself.
I was wondering if any art exhibition center,
or other science center had faced this situation
when writing their own object management policy.
(Everything is always written for collecting museums only).
I was also asking myself if they do have 
written object policies.
(I have asked a few Quebec art centers and they didn't).
As  exhibition center professionnals, some of you have probably faced 
potential donators, or maybe have been
forced to keep some object, or "deaccession" it
(maybe "dispose" would be a better word) .
How do you deal with that in your written policies
or in practice?


Nadine