[Nhcoll-l] Fwd: [Taxacom] Translocation of an entire natural history museum

[Thiers, Barbara]

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From: Barna Páll-Gergely <pallgergely2 at gmail.com<mailto:pallgergely2 at gmail.com>>
Date: January 17, 2019 at 6:48:22 AM EST
To: <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu<mailto:taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>>
Subject: [Taxacom] Translocation of an entire natural history museum

Dear Colleagues,

Probably most of you have not heard yet that the Hungarian government is
planning to translocate the Hungarian Natural History Museum (HNHM) from
the capital to the eastern part of the country.
Funded 220 years ago, the HNHM is one of the most important institutes in
biodiversity research and taxonomy in Central Europe. We are keeping 10-12
millions of artefacts, including more than one hundred thousand type
specimens of almost fifty thousand taxa (mostly insects).

If we have to move, most of the staff have to quit (very few colleagues
seem to be ready to leave the capital for a small town in the eastern part
of the country) and find a new job, therefore, most of the collections will
remain without experienced staff at the time of packing, transportation and
unpacking and even later.

We fear that this poses a great danger to the priceless collections, and
try to find as many arguments and support against this plan as possible.

Maybe it helps if we can present foreign examples to decision makers

- what happened to such a collection in similar cases (i.e. when an entire
natural history museum moved to a distance of 2-300 km (not within the same
city or area)?
- how long did the preparation phase take before moving?
- how much extra personnel was necessary for the preparation?
- how many artefacts were damaged?
- what are the most important factors that slow down such a process
significantly?

also, we would be grateful for published case studies what sort of damages
resulted in cases when a collection remained without care for a longer
period.

Thank you for your help, comments and advice

Zoltán Fehér, Dávid Murányi & Barna Páll-Gergely


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Barna PÁLL-GERGELY, PhD
MTA Premium Post Doctorate Researcher
Plant Protection Institute
Centre for Agricultural Research
Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA)
Herman Ottó Street 15,
Budapest, H-1022, Hungary
Tel: +36304673580
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