ABSTRACT

In 1993, Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Canada, adopted six strategies to enhance its effectiveness, reduce expenditure, increase revenue and renew the museum's commitment to public service. One of the six strategies was to deaccession selected international collections. After the first two decades of world-wide collecting, Glenbow has increasingly focused its mandate, with a primary emphasis on the history and settlement of north-western North America. The current strategy involves focusing more closely on this core mandate. Glenbow will deaccession and sell selected items from its non-core international collections in order to create a Collections Restricted Fund. This fund will be protected against inflation and kept intact for the future building of the collections. The income from this fund will be dedicated to the care and maintenance of the core collections.