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The Acquisition Service facilitates the set of activities that results in the addition of collection objects and associated information to the collections of the organization and their possible accession to the permanent collections. |
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Some of the considerations involved in deciding whether an item should be acquired, and guidance around the timeframes in which such decisions might be made, are nicely summarized by the American Museum of Natural History Paleo Portal: Acquiring.
Assumptions
- Most collection objects acquired by a museum or other institution will also be accessioned into the institution's permanent collection(s).
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