The Inventory procedure supports you when checking that you have the basic information to be accountable for the objects in your care. If your museum has always met the minimum requirements for the other primary procedures, you will already have this information recorded and you should just keep up the good work. Keeping on top of the other primary procedures will maintain your inventory information. If, however, you do not have the basic information recorded, the procedure will help you tackle the backlog.
Here you can find further resources to help with the Spectrum procedure Inventory and see how other museums have put it into practice. For the procedure itself follow this link. You can find further blog posts related to banishing backlogs here.
Jo Moore, Curator and Collections Coordinator at Wheal Martyn, has written this guest blog about how Wheal Martyn approached dealing with their documentation backlog, which was identified following an audit of their collections. My connection with Wheal Martyn began in 2011 when I was commissioned as a freelance curator to undertake a collections audit at […]
This resource outlines Bristol Museums, Galleries and Archives’ Fawcett Collection Project Plan between February 2005 and August 2006. The project formed part of their work to inventory their archaeology collection, comprising of 7513 objects.
Bristol’s Museums, Galleries and Archives archaeology collection is a large collection with complicated documentation and collections management requirements. The aim of this project was to produce a record for objects or groups of objects cared for by the Archaeology Department.