Two Stop Bits | annoying but it's a problem with all museums. they have far too many items to di...

zxm 235 days ago | parent

annoying but it's a problem with all museums. they have far too many items to display make available. most have huge archives of stuff that will never see the light of day.

it would be interesting to see if there's a follow up and what the organisation did to try and avoid dumping them.

amoroso 235 days ago
Responsible organizations have other options, such as stopping accepting new submissions when storage space runs out, or looking for a new good home for the excess material they can no longer store. Or, at the very least, notify the original submitter they can no longer store the material.
Darkstar 234 days ago
A simple phone call like "hey, sorry, we have no time/space/energy to do anything with your stuff, pick it up or it will be destroyed by $DEADLINE" would certainly have solved the problem