A Different Way To Think About Museum Deaccessioning

“As old fashioned as it sounds, and with as many mistakes as have already been made over the past half century or so, it may well be that art museum collections should only be assigned dollar values for insurance purposes and with the understanding that the loss of the collection is the loss of the museum’s reason for existence. As someone once remarked, Grant’s tomb without Ulysses S. is rather pointless.”