Selling museum holdings - called "deaccessioning" - has been a controversial act for many institutions, since donors believe they are adding to a collection and are dismayed to find out their generosity has been monetized to plug budget holes or buy something better. ❋ Unknown (2009)
They sell things off now and then, although they prefer to call it deaccessioning, which is a particularly choice example of newspeak, don't you think? ❋ Block, Lawrence (1980)
"I think it's important, to maintain public trust, to be transparent," he said Wednesday, calling the deaccessioning justifiable and a "smart decision." ❋ Unknown (2011)
In the museum world, that's known as deaccessioning, and it's a loaded word. ❋ Unknown (2011)
It explores the art world's controversial issue of "deaccessioning," a reference to the sale of artworks and other objects from a museum's permanent collection. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Can the plan to dismantle the Barnes art collection to overcome financial mismanagement not be defined as "deaccessioning"? ❋ Unknown (2008)
The announcement of the sales - termed "deaccessioning" by collecting institutions - is the second from a Philadelphia museum this year. ❋ Unknown (2011)
But calling what they're doing a "deaccessioning" is intended to avoid (or at least has the effect of avoiding) all of those difficult questions. ❋ Unknown (2009)
First up: A journalist asked me in email why I don't talk about "deaccessioning" re: what is happening to the Rose Art Museum. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But, if it's any consolation, many of our museums show atrocities that will only be remembered in their own archives (blessed be the "deaccessioning"). " ❋ Unknown (2007)
"deaccessioning," the term for when a museum sells art from its collection.
Guidelines at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, for instance, state that "the Museum may trade or exchange works with other institutions," while the deaccessioning policy of Mirianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art in Manhattan, Kan. includes the provision that an "object can be offered back to the donor, donated to another institution, traded for a piece from another institution, sold at public auction, sold through a reputable established dealer, or destroyed." ❋ Daniel Grant (2011)
Likewise, the NAM has socked away in a reserve fund $11 million of the $13.5 million raised by its deaccessioning of the two 19th-century paintings. ❋ Judith H. Dobrzynski (2011)
Short-term installations, in addition to the fact that it does not actually own the pieces, limit the need of the Public Art Fund to develop or act on policies for deaccessioning artworks. ❋ Daniel Grant (2011)
Policy on deaccessioning on web - 'a no brainer '. ❋ Mia (2009)
In most instances, museums swap objects with other museums, and their deaccessioning policies specifically refer to these types of transfers. ❋ Daniel Grant (2011)
