Collections Management
Museums have a unique responsibility to collect objects that reflect their mission. Management responsibilities of museums to their collections include:
- Acquisition of collections consistent with the museum’s mission
- Exhibiting, storing and moving objects is to be done using the utmost in care
- Disposal of collections by trade or sale will be as carefully considered as the acquisition of objects
- Loans made only to responsible institutions
- Maintaining an up-to-date collections policy
- Maintaining clear title to all objects with clearly delineated methods of documentation
- Objects in the collection are documented and inventoried
- Providing for the permanent protection of objects through careful stewardship and sustainability
- Respecting all laws and traditions concerning the exhibition or collection of sacred or funerary objects
