Purpose

To consider the
report

Decision

RESOLVED THAT:
 

the
updated Interim Collections Development Policy (2025-2027) attached
as Appendix 2, which will run for a two-year period to end of March
2027, is approved;
the two
supporting policy statements - the Interim Collections Care and
Conservation Policy and the Interim Collection Documentation Policy
attached as Appendices 3 and 4 – are
approved;
the
specific section of the Collection Development Policy in relation
to archaeology, whereby the Wilson will no longer accept
archaeological depositions from outside Cheltenham borough
boundaries – see Section 5 – is
endorsed;
Tram 21 is deaccessioned*, subject to a viable plan being agreed
which secures the tram’s future in Cheltenham, makes it
accessible to the public and allows its story to be
told– see Section 6

[*deaccession in the context of arts collections is
the process whereby a work of art or other object is permanently
removed from a museum's collection to be disposed of.]