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?
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achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them
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