Resource This resource outlines bulk accessioning and how to apply it to different collections. Contents What is bulk accessioning and why is it important? Spectrum 5.0 and the Museum Accreditation Scheme How to bulk accession Bulk accessioning and Cataloguing Bulk accessioning and different types of collection Bulk accessioning and Inventory Please note, this resource has been […]
Resource This resource lists the types of protection you get automatically and the types you have to apply for.
Resource This brief guide can help an organisation who has lost contact with a person, eg a lender, who they wish to try to trace. Also it may be useful in tracing living rights holders.
Resource This video case study, from Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, describes how they acquire new objects for their collection. It looks at what they do with them once they are received. The Curator, Ali Wells, walks through the process within the collections store.
Resource This toolkit aims to be a useful resource for people embarking on contemporary collecting or with some previous experience of the practice. It is also for anyone wishing to learn more about some of the processes.
Resource This video shows how to mark objects using the Paraloid B72 method.
Resource This toolkit is an introduction to contemporary collecting, for museum staff and volunteers who don’t have direct experience of acquiring recent material and who want to understand the basics. It aims to provide advice and guidance on how to undertake contemporary collecting projects, outlining some of the practical considerations that need to be made and showcasing examples from museums.
Resource The procedural manual is a widely recognised device for expressing and communicating a museum’s policy and practice. It should include reference to the standards the museum uses for collecting information about museum objects. The resource describes how to develop and maintain a procedural manual, and what it might contain.
Resource The aim of the Collections Trust Documentation planning pack is to assist museums to produce their own documentation plans. The guidelines contained in the pack can be used for all types of documentation planning; they are not intended as the only way to produce a documentation plan and are specifically to help the documentation planning process as required by UK Museum Accreditation Scheme.
Resource The British Schools Museum have created a documentation procedural manual, which sets a useful example for appropriate contents and structure when creating your own procedural manual for Accreditation.
Resource This resource offers guidance on looking after your accession records to ensure they are secure and tamperproof.
Resource This Act puts into UK law the 1954 Hague Convention and its two Protocols. Section 17 creates the offence of dealing in unlawfully exported cultural property.
Resource Collections Trust supplies pre-printed, triplicate forms that support the Spectrum Acquisition procedure (a Spectrum Primary Procedure) and are used to transfer the ownership of an object from the owner to the museum.
Resource Collections Trust supplies registers which are used by museum practitioners worldwide to manage museum collections. Accession registers support the Spectrum Acquisition procedure (a Spectrum Primary Procedure). They are used to create a permanent record of accessions to the museum’s long term collections.
Resource Collections Trust supplies pre-printed, triplicate forms that support the Spectrum Object entry procedure and are used whenever an object enters the museum.
Resource This resource from National Museums Liverpool (NML) shows their full acquisition and disposal policy, including the policies and collecting priorities of different NML divisions and departments.
Resource This resource is a template for a museum acquisition and disposal policy.
Resource This policy is designed to create a uniform region-wide approach to the preparation and deposition of archaeological archives. The document has been developed in partnership with museums throughout the Yorkshire and Humber region, local government archaeological officers, English Heritage, the University of York and a number of field archaeological units.
Resource Whether you are working in museums, teaching, researching or studying, the Museum Ethnographers Group (MEG) is the central point of contact for museum ethnography.
Resource This resource from National Museums Liverpool outlines guidelines on marking and labelling methods. It includes a table which offers suggestions for how and where to mark different object types.
Resource This checklist will help you follow up lines of enquiry to establish the ownership and history of the object you are acquiring. It is a useful checklist for both cultural heritage and commercial organisations.
Resource Produced as a deliverable of the EU-funded ATHENA project, this report provides an Assessment of the Requirement for Persistent Identification of Objects, Collections and Institutions.
Resource This resource provides a checklist for buying collections from online sources. It is list of considerations when purchasing a work of art or an antique from an online auction house.
Resource This fact sheet discusses the 1970 threshold established by UNESCO to combat the illicit import, export, and transfer of ownership of stolen art and antiques/antiquities.
Resource These guidelines on the labelling and marking of museum objects were developed by the Collections Trust with the help of Vivien Chapman at the National Conservation Centre, National Museums Liverpool (NML).
Resource As part of its work with documentation standards the Collections Trust (and its predecessor body MDA) has, since the 1970s, been developing and maintaining a scheme which allows the identification of UK collection-holding organisations and their collections through “codes” which are unique to each organisation.
Resource This template from Arts Council England provides a development policy framework, which sets out the principles, standards and legislation for responsible and ethical acquisition (and disposal) of collections.
Resource This resource gives guidance on numbering your collection, on different types and formats and a summary of commonly occurring issues surrounding numbering.
Resource This resource from the International Council of Museums (ICOM) outlines ethical advice and guidance for the international museum community, which may be of reliance when undertaking international loans.
Resource This legislation is relevant to collections held for anatomical teaching in Scotland, where the disposal of human remains from the Anatomy collection is the legal duty of the Licensed Teacher of Anatomy.
Resource This Act deals with finds of treasure in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It is relevant to museums which are offered treasure as potential acquisitions, often as a result of a chance find or as part of an archaeological archive.
Resource CITES is an international agreement between governments. This multilateral treaty aims to protect endangered plants and animals and relates to the acquisition of biological and geological material in developing collections.
Resource This legislation applies to museums holding or intending to hold human remains under 100 years old. The Act regulates the acquisition, storage, use and disposal of human bodies, organs and tissue.
Resource This legislation applies to museums holding or intending to hold human remains under 100 years old. The Act regulates the acquisition, storage, use and disposal of human bodies, organs and tissue.
Resource This legislation refers to the acquisition of cultural property and makes it an offence to acquire, dispose of, import or export ‘tainted’ cultural objects, or agree or arrange to do so; and for connected purposes.
Resource This legislation from United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is a multilateral international agreement dedicated to fighting the illicit trafficking of cultural property.
Resource In this short video, a conservator demonstrates the techniques for labelling and marking the paper objects within your collection.
Resource This publication details Scotland-specific guidelines for the care of human remains in museum collections including their care, associated ethics, display, use and issues around repatriation requests. It also includes comprehensive legal guidelines in a Scottish context.
Resource This resource from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport outlines good practice guidance for museums acquiring and holding human remains from any period and aims to offer practical support in the care of human remains in museums.
Resource The Museum Association Code of Ethics defines the ethical principles which guide museum practice and underpin policy and practice regarding the development of museum collections.