This
isn't personal experience, but I do know that the SD State Agricultural Museum,
located on the campus of South Dakota State University, used to commonly receive
things they had deaccessioned. Being a state institution, they could not
just throw or give stuff away--it had to go through the state surplus auction,
which happened to be held 2x a year in the parking lot behind the museum.
After almost every auction they would find a box of items inside the front
door--thanks to the ever vigilant citizens of SD who couldn't bear to see old
tools sold to a private citizen when a perfectly good museum was just around the
corner.
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