<div dir="ltr">Dear Stephanie, <div>I'm an experienced conservator. For discussion </div><div>One thing I have noticed about this list is the amount of time people are trying to deaccession stuff. So good that you are considering the future to miss this step. I have known a museum where the head curator and founder collected all sorts of stuff , that in thirty years people will be getting rid of as they got them to satisfy their whims and these artefacts had little to do with the museum's titles . So I would say to myself in thirty years will the next generation of curators see this as an asset or a problem?</div><div>As a natural history collection , are you telling the story of N America, Canada, BC or say 30 miles from you ? Are you telling the story of the land and/ or the water river? sea? lake?as well? What do you see as the end point of your collection? As a natural history museum, dare I say this is possible ? An example of every rock, plant animal (male and female) of everything 10/20/30? miles from you. Your big call maybe is do you collect human interaction with nature as well</div><div><br></div><div>As a conservator my current interest is contaminated artefacts so be careful of pesticide residue on skins and when you think a skin is too degraded to maintain and consider Bayne's decay for shells and do not let insects eat your collection </div><div>Paul Harrison </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 18 Jul 2024 at 00:07, Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv <<a href="mailto:listserv@lists.museum.bc.ca">listserv@lists.museum.bc.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Hi everyone, <div><br></div><div>I'm newly managing education programs at a small nature facility and inherited no systems for how donations are brought in / out of the facility. At the risk of being repetitive, I have a few questions that I was hoping to get advice on: </div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>1) Does anyone have a one-pager accession form that folks sign when they donate?</div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>2) Where do you start when building a donations policy? I'm looking for something short and concise - collections is 100% not in my position, but it just needs to be done so things stop landing on my desk or on the floor of our office without explanation. </div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>3) Does anyone have any turkey vulture artefacts that we could acquire? (And if so, what advice do you have on protocols for receiving one?)</div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><br></div></blockquote>I have a couple other questions that I'd love to get some advice on, so if this is in your wheelhouse and you're willing to answer a few questions, please reach out at
<a href="mailto:stephanielynn.chong@gmail.com" target="_blank">stephanielynn.chong@gmail.com</a>. <br><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Stephanie <br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://ca.linkedin.com/in/stephaniechongeducator" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Stephanie Chong</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">, </span><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">B.Sc. (Honours),
M.M.Ed., CVA</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><i><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(94,50,124)">I acknowledge and am grateful to be
able to live, work, and play on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(94,50,124)">of the lək̓ʷəŋən speaking
peoples, specifically the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations, who have respected
these lands and waters for thousands of years. I also extend my gratitude to the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh
(Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples, whose traditional lands my
family has called home for over 50 years. </span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">
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