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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 154016, member: 55&quot;]I can see both sides of the issue....</p><p>My wife worked for a while in a Scandinavian heritage museum in Seattle; and they hardly knew what to do with some of the stuff that had been donated.....yes, it was Scandinavian, and an heirloom to the family that donated it.....but it was also just trash, so bad that if you gave it to the Goodwill, they&#039;d be unable to sell it.&nbsp;&nbsp; Moldy books in Swedish; broken and unrepairable musical instruments....rodent-chewed clothing....</p><p>Or perfectly saleable books -but they had dozens of identical copies.</p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; On the other hand, in a similar kind of issue, a nearby city had a park; it had been donated to the city, with a stipulation that it had to remain a public park.&nbsp;&nbsp; The city council sold it to a developer; and after the resulting controversy, had to back out of the sales contract, a very expensive undertaking.</p><p>What is an agency to do when it is given a gift with the provision that it must be retained?</p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The answer is probably both situational, and legal in nature, and dependent on the wording of contracts and other documents.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; I suspect many museums stipulate that they retain the right to dispose of the donations as they see fit.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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