Francesca Pellegrino (Heritage and Venues Team Leader)
Esther Green (Review and Rationalisation Project Officer)
Ian Channell (Collections Officer)
Epping Forest Museum Review and Reimagine Project
This video was produced for the 8th annual UCM/SHARE Museums East Collections Care Conference ‘R is for Review and Rationalisation’ in January 2022. Tweet @SHAREmuseums and @CamUnivMuseums your thoughts using the hashtag #CollectionsR22
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Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
2:16 What is a significance matrix and how is it used? Have you faced any challenges with this?
8:30 What challenges did you face managing this project throughout the pandemic and how did you overcome these? How did you adapt?
11:34 With over 100k objects in the collection, how do you keep track of each object as it goes through the review and rationalisation process and do you record the process?
13:44 What steps do you take in order to follow up with the disposal of an object once the decision has been made to remove it from the collection?
18:10 Will you consider the sale of objects? And How will you do this? What are the risks associated with this?
22:37 Have you encountered any hazardous material and how have you dealt with this?
26:10 How to approach the assessment of an object which doesn’t appear to have any documentation?
30:15 PROS- Based on your current experience managing Epping Forest District Museum’s Review and Reimagine Project, what do you think makes a successful rationalisation and disposal project?
33:59 VOLUNTEERS- As the project is largely performed ‘on the ground’ by volunteers, what training and support did you, and your colleagues, provide? How many volunteers do you have assisting with the project? Did any issues arise and how did you rectify them?
40:34 COMMUNUCATION- Museums tend to be hesitant to share rationalisation projects with the wider public. How did you communicate this project?
43:45 BIAS- How did you reduce any potential bias in the rationalisation project?
45:50 STAR OBJECTS?
Don't forget to check out the other video resources:
- Towards Sustainable Collection Management - • Collections Care Confe...
- Top 10 Tips for Rationalising Collections - • Collections Care Confe...
- Accreditation and Disposal - • Collections Care Confe...
- Curation and Ethics in the Study of Human Remains - • Collections Care Confe...
Four live sessions will be held on the 27th and 28th of January 2022 to accompany these presentations. Places can be booked at www.sharemuseumseast.org.uk/e...