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Deaccessioning Costume and Textile Collections:

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TLpq2395778799

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Deaccessioning Costume and Textile Collections:

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[Thesis]

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Sachs, Jessica

Title Proper by Another Author

A Case Study at Northport Historical Society

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Montegut, Denyse

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Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2020

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65

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M.A.

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Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York

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2020

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Historic societies and museums, large and small, are facing the issue of overcrowding within their collection storage spaces. The smaller private museums, and historic houses and societies, often have been growing without the guidance of an accession plan and now find themselves in the position of having a large unwieldy, unfocused collection that has run out of space. The solution should be to inventory what they hold, develop a plan denoting which objects need to be kept in accordance with their mission, deaccession the objects not being kept, and going forward, reevaluate how they collect. This straightforward plan is sometimes too complicated for the part-time and volunteer staff commonly employed by such institutions. The procedure of deaccessioning, or removing an object from a collection, is a legal, fiscal, physical, and ethical challenge. This paper examines the process of deaccessioning historic costumes and textiles through the lens of the Northport Historical Society's collection, with comparisons to other museum and historic house studies on the subject. The paper concludes with a set of guidelines specific for the Northport Historical Society's collection, but should be applicable for other historical societies in a similar situation.

Collections management

Collections plan

Deaccessioning

Historic society

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Policy

Montegut, Denyse

Sachs, Jessica

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