Valuing Your Collection: A Practical Guide for Museums, Libraries and Archives

Freda Matassa

doi:10.29085/9781783302147

This book addresses the issue of valuing objects in cultural collections, ranging from high-value to low or no-value and featuring a range of collections including fine art, archives, science and photography. Practical advice is given on how to assign values and best practice examples are drawn from museums, libraries and archives. The subject of valuation has always been challenging for museums and public collections and is becoming more urgent as monetary values of many items continue to break records. There is an increase in lending, with more loans requiring a value for insurance. Cultural collections and exhibitions are expanding to all corners of the world, while, at the same time, lenders are becoming more risk-averse. Valuing Your Collection will address the issues and offer some solutions.

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Dedication
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1 - Introduction
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2 - The difficulty of valuation
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3 - Law and ethics
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4 - Insurance
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5 - Alternatives to insurance
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6 - Valuing your collection
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7 - Valuing an entire collection
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8 - Assigning a value
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Case studies: valuing different types of objects
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Templates
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Appendix 1 - UK Government valuation of cultural items
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Appendix 2 - European Report, Valuation of Works of Art for Lending and Borrowing Purposes
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Appendix 3 - Glossary
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Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-x

List of figures and tables
pp xi-xii

Preface
pp xiii-xiv

Acknowledgements
pp xv-xvi

1 - Introduction
pp 1-16

2 - The difficulty of valuation
pp 17-38

3 - Law and ethics
pp 39-60

4 - Insurance
pp 61-84

5 - Alternatives to insurance
pp 85-98

6 - Valuing your collection
pp 99-118

7 - Valuing an entire collection
pp 119-138

8 - Assigning a value
pp 139-154

Case studies: valuing different types of objects
pp 155-182

Templates
pp 183-200

Appendix 1 - UK Government valuation of cultural items
pp 201-206

Appendix 2 - European Report, Valuation of Works of Art for Lending and Borrowing Purposes
pp 207-210

Appendix 3 - Glossary
pp 211-216

Bibliography
pp 217-220

Index
pp 221-224

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