Hello Dawn,

I am going to suggest trying to keep them somehow or forward them to someone who archives the history of museums. Professional historians are now saying that future historians are not going to be able to document our era as well because of digitization efforts. I have heard this twice on NPR in the last couple of months. I found it interesting that they are even trying to figure out how to save our crazy cat videos that we look at on YouTube - with that said, someone will want to know what we current museum staffers where up too in our century perhaps. I will stay tuned for any responses you might receive. (I have some of my own too)

Awesome Post :)

R. Beck

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Scher Thomae, Dawn <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear wise museum colleagues:

I need some perspective. I have about 400 museum brochures and museum guides from museums around the world (not this museum) in my department in vertical file boxes taking up prime real estate. They date from about 1965 to around 1990 and most collected by three or four past curators on several trips. I am wondering if they should be archived somewhere else (on-site at our museum or off-site--suggestions for a place?), send each museum their brochure (nostalgia?) or just ditch them. I am trying to think of a reason to keep them. No one has looked at them in the last 20 years, at least, and with everything electronic now, there is no need to keep them as information resources (except to chuckle at some of the admission fees).

Would appreciate any suggestions.

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Thank you,

Dawn Scher Thomae

Curator of Anthropology Collections

Milwaukee Public Museum

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