Valuing your collection: a practical guide for museums, libraries and archives

Title page -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The difficulty of valuation -- Chapter 3: Law and ethics -- Chapter 4: Insurance -- Chapter 5: Alternatives to insurance -- Chapter 6: Valuing your collection -- Chapter 7: Va...

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Main Author: Matassa, Freda ca. 20./21. Jh (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Facet Publishing 2017
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Summary:Title page -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The difficulty of valuation -- Chapter 3: Law and ethics -- Chapter 4: Insurance -- Chapter 5: Alternatives to insurance -- Chapter 6: Valuing your collection -- Chapter 7: Valuing an entire collection -- Chpater 8: Assigning a value -- Case studies: valuing different types of objects -- Anthropology and ethnography -- Archaeology -- Archives -- Armour -- Fashion and textiles -- Film and television artefacts -- Fine art -- Firearms -- Natural history collections -- Photographs -- Prints -- Rare books -- Science and technology -- Templates -- General questions for valuation -- Anthropology and ethnography -- Archaeology -- Archives -- Armour -- Contemporary art -- Decorative art -- Fashion and textiles -- Film and television -- Fine art -- Firearms -- Library special collections -- Natural history collections -- Photographs -- Prints -- Rare books -- Science and technology -- Social history -- Appendix 1: UK Government valuation of cultural items -- Appendix 2: European Report, Valuation of Works of Art for Lending and Borrowing Purposes -- Appendix 3: Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
This book addresses the issues around valuing objects in cultural collections, ranging from high-value to low or no-value, including practical advice on how to assign values and examples from museums, libraries and archives
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 224 Seiten)
ISBN:9781783302147
DOI:10.29085/9781783302147

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