Purpose

To consider the report

Decision

RESOLVED THAT:

1. 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;
2. 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;
3. 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;
4. 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.]