Issue details

The Museum Service reviews its outgoing loans on an annual basis. The railway item described in Appendix 1 has been on loan to a non-Accredited museum since 1978. Changing this long-term loan into a permanent transfer would have been considered sooner, but as the borrowing body is not an Accredited museum we have not done so.

Due to recent changes in circumstances the current borrowing organisation does not wish to renew the loan and an opportunity has arisen for the item to be permanently transferred to a fully Accredited museum in Staffordshire, in accordance with the terms of the Museum Service’s Collections Development Policy and Museum Association guidelines.

The transfer of these items will enable the Service to have higher levels of care for the remaining collections and make better use of our finite collections storage space. It will also ensure that this collection item will be with a museum which has the specialist skills needed in order to care for large industrial items.