It's a rare event to see a museum put some of its collection up for sale, but that's what's happening in Banff for three days starting Oct. 27.
More than 1,400 books, maps, magazines and pamphlets dating from the late 1800s to the mid-2000s will be available for purchase.It took Kayla Cazes, the museum's librarian and reference archivist, well over a year to sort through the vast collection totalling close to 20,000 pieces.
When in doubt, Cazes turns to the museum's mandate to collect the human and cultural history of the Canadian Rockies. Elizabeth Kundert-Cameron, director of archives and special collections, says there is a large collection of vintage sheet music up for sale that she enjoys looking at. Money raised through the sale will support preventative conservation measures needed for the archival and library collections as well as collection development."But it'll also be for the archives and probably for art and heritage as well, so it's basically going back to the collections for collection management."
"Is this something that researchers are going to use -- that the public is going to be accessing a lot? Or is this something that we're just personally really excited about?"
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