ABSTRACT
Within the Historic Sites Service (HSS), tend to refer to two kinds of collections management: the “bit” collections management, which includes a broad range of collections-related issues; and the “small” collections management, which has a narrower scope focusing on managing information about objects in the collection, in addition to managing the objects themselves. With respect to physically managing category 1, 2a and 2b collections, the same standards of care and handling, transport and storage are employed by the Historic Sites Service as would be found in any professionally accredited institution. By 1984, a big push on the part of the entire organization resulted in the opening of a considerable number of buildings, which were being actively interpreted in accordance with HSS’s policy of providing the public with almost total access to the historic environments and, consequently, to the collections associated with them.
