Care to donate something? Not sure if it fits our remit? Can you insist something you give is displayed? (No, incidentally). Is there a danger we might get rid of your generous gift? The answers are all to be found in our formal acquisitions and disposals policy which doubles as a rather handy description of the collection's various categories.
Acquisitions Policy 2006-11 (pdf file approx. 54KB in size)
Our picture shows the staff of E.G.Lambe Opticians of Stoke Newington. When the business closed in 2001 they resisted the temptation to throw everything into a skip. Fortunately they knew who to approach and we eventually accepted 43 items into the collection. We are very grateful to people like these, especially when helping the museum causes extra work for them.