deaccessioning

Selling museum holdings - called "deaccessioning" - has been a controversial act for many institutions, since donors believe they are adding to a collection and are dismayed to find out their generosity has been monetized to plug budget holes or buy something better.

Fore, right!

Selling museum holdings - called "deaccessioning" - has been a controversial act for many institutions, since donors believe they are adding to a collection and are dismayed to find out their generosity has been monetized to plug budget holes or buy something better.

Fore, right!

Selling museum holdings - called "deaccessioning" - has been a controversial act for many institutions, since donors believe they are adding to a collection and are dismayed to find out their generosity has been monetized to plug budget holes or buy something better.

Fore, right!

They sell things off now and then, although they prefer to call it deaccessioning, which is a particularly choice example of newspeak, don't you think?

The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza

"I think it's important, to maintain public trust, to be transparent," he said Wednesday, calling the deaccessioning justifiable and a "smart decision."

Phillies Zone

In the museum world, that's known as deaccessioning, and it's a loaded word.

NPR Topics: News

It explores the art world's controversial issue of "deaccessioning," a reference to the sale of artworks and other objects from a museum's permanent collection.

An Artist Transforms a Museum's Leftovers

Can the plan to dismantle the Barnes art collection to overcome financial mismanagement not be defined as "deaccessioning"?

Museum Art Sales And Art's Mission

The announcement of the sales - termed "deaccessioning" by collecting institutions - is the second from a Philadelphia museum this year.

Phillies Zone

But calling what they're doing a "deaccessioning" is intended to avoid (or at least has the effect of avoiding) all of those difficult questions.

The Art Law Blog