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Recommendation For Deaccession

Registrar's # ____________

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM X

RECOMMENDATION FOR DEACCESSION

Date reviewed by Curatorial Review Committee:

Object Accession Number:

Object Description:

Provenance/Locality:

Donor:

Address:

Statement of Legal Title (attach document copies):

Reason for Deaccession: (Check all that apply)

Lack of significance, relevance or usefulness to Museum research, education, or

exhibition mission and goals.

Opportunity to upgrade or reduce redundancy in a collection.

Deterioration, damage, or alteration beyond repair/requiring excessive resources to repair.

Proper preservation within current Museum facilities and/or resources is not possible.

Inadequate provenance documentation that reduces significant usefulness.

Authenticity has been discredited.

Legality of ownership is challenged after further investigation.

Hazardous conditions that may threaten stability of other collections and/or health of

personnel.

Curator has approved destructive sampling procedures for research which will render the

object useless for other purposes.

Return to a previous holder is legally required.

Legitimate repatriation claim.

Justification for Deaccession:

Prepared by:

Date:

Curatorial

Date:

Approval:

Curatorial Review

Date:

Committee:

For RC-AAM February 2012

Recommendation For Deaccession