Hi, Everyone!
Donating a collection to a museum is a risky business. On eo f our club founders donated her shells to the St. Louis Science museum - the only display was in two very small plastic domes, which were moved often and the labels were always mixed up. Also, when some of us visited the "behind the scenes" collection, there were very few shells. It was explained that the rest hadn't been unpacked (?). So...Frieda Schilling donated her collection to the Chicago Field Museum, where she knew they would be used to greater advantage.
I will probably give my "bad data" shells to my daughter, who is an artist and doesn't care about data, just the artistic value of the shells. I will probably give the rest either to some young collectors or to our club, to be dispursed by silent and oral auctions.
This is a real problem for us collectors - where to send our collections when we pass on or have to move into a facility with no room for them.
Ideas, anyone?
Cordially,
Linda
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Date: 2004/07/27 Tue PM 02:28:52 GMT
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Splitting collections
>
> A few observations.
> 1. If it is a famous collection (THE George Washington Collection) one would want it kept together.
> 2. If it is the Art Weil collection, it couldn't make any difference. After all, the shells were not together when collected.
> 3. Splitting makes more material available in more places.
> 4. Depositing in museums takes material out of circulation. What with bans and restrictions, it may be better to "seed" new collectors.
> 5. frinstance: The Cincinnati Museum has a collection of 135,000 shells---all in storage---none on display.
> Art
> >
> > From: Andy Rindsberg <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: 2004/07/27 Tue AM 10:05:40 EDT
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Splitting collections
> >
> > Dear Conchlers,
> >
> > What are the advantages and disadvantages of splitting a collection of
> > shells from one place?
> >
> > By splitting, I mean repositing the collection in more than one institution.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andy
> >
> > Andrew K. Rindsberg
> > Geological Survey of Alabama
> >
> >
>
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