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Katie CavanaghCollections Officer
Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council
Stockport’s Museums
• Stockport Story Museum – Social History• Staircase House – Historic House• Bramall Hall – Historic House • Chadkirk Chapel – Historic Chapel • Stockport Art Gallery • Air Raid Shelters• Vernon Park Museum and Park• Hat Works – Museum of Hatting and Headwear
Stockport’s Museum Collections
• Social History
• Industrial History and machinery
• Fine and Decorative Art
• Costume
• Natural Sciences
• Archaeology and Ethnography
• Hatting and Headwear
Factors Influencing Review of Collections
• New Curatorial Team
• Projects
• Collections Store move
• Inventory of collections
• Increased use of collections
New Curatorial Team
• Knowledge and experience
• No baggage
• Fresh approach
Projects
• Opening of Staircase House – 2005 An historic house with room settings
• Opening of Stockport Story Museum – 2006Local history museum
Collections Store MoveFrom To
Inventory of Collections
• Systematic inventory – box by box
• Entry of information onto collections database
• Increased access to collections
Use of Collections
• Temporary Exhibition spaces
• Active Education programme
• Increased outreach and informal learning workshops
Methodology
Categorisation of objects:
• Entry backlog
• Unknown provenance objects
• Accessioned objects
Methodology
Report to Council Committee:
• Short report
• Detailing areas in need of attention
• Information on how review is being carried out
Methodology
Procedures for backlog items:
• Letter to donor
• Consent form for accessioning, transfer, handling or disposal
• Regular decision making meetings
Methodology
Criteria for disposal:
Outside collecting policy or not suitable for thecollections.
Methodology
Criteria for disposal:
Not suitable for handling collections
Methodology
Criteria for disposal:
Poses a threat to the collections
Methodology
Criteria for disposal:
Poses a Health & Safety risk
Methodology
Criteria for disposal:
Is a duplicate
Methodology
Criteria for disposal:
Beyond reasonable repair
Methodology
Procedures for disposal:
• Follow SPECTRUM procedures
• Photograph everything
• Document it to within an inch of its life
Methodology
Transparency of decision making:
• Be open about what you’re doing and why
• Involve Councillors, Executive Members and senior management
• Produce regular updates
Outcomes
• Improved collections care• Refined Acquisition and Disposal policy• Improved handling collections• Good relations with Councillors and Executive
Members• Valuing new members of staff• Appreciation of procedures• Rationalisation / disposal of objects
Outcomes
3228
1309
86
Entry BacklogUnknown ProvenanceAccessioned
Objects disposed of: