Accession: one or more objects acquired at one time from one source constituting a single transaction between museum and a source.
Registration: assigning a permanent number for identification purposes to an accession and recording this number according to a system.
Cataloguing: Assigning an object to one or more categories of an organised classification system.
Significance: having meaning or importance, hence, concerning museums, serving the educational purpose of a museum. A significant object in the museums collection is one that can be used educationally.
Docent: originally, a university level teacher who was not a member of the regular faculty. In the museum context, a docent is a trained volunteer teacher guide.
Alienation: The loss of museum objects from the collection, for whatever reason.
Fungible: a legal concept, having to do with the replacement of one thing by another. In museum work the term is used to describe the collection of zoos, botanical gardens and similar biological institutions. The objects in the collection are not permanent since all living things die, but as new specimens are added, the collection on a whole continues.
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