Museum
The Augustan Society, Inc., had as part of its mission the construction and maintenance of a Museum. In 2015 it was decided to drop the word "museum" from the Mission Statement. At this time, the museum project has been changed to perform the following tasks:
- Identify items of no worth to be discarded.
- Identify items of some worth, but no relevance, which will be sold, donated, or discarded.
- Identify items that were the personal property of the Founder, which will be delivered to his heir (or possibly sold at her direction).
- Ship the philatelic collection to the Coordinator of the Philatelic Study Group, once named. Should that group remain dormant, careful review needs to be conducted before sale or retention is decided upon.
- Ship the photograph collection to the Coordinator of the Photograph Identification Study Group for identification.
- Identify items that speak to the history of the Society or individual members, which will be retained.
- Identify items that will be useful to furnish or decorate a Headquarters, which will be retained.
- Identify items that will be useful to furnish or decorate the Chapel of the Rose, whose ultimate disposition will be at the discretion of the Superintendent of the Chapel, and move them to a separate storage unit when possible.
On any given item (and all of the Chapel items), Headquarters Staff may send photos and descriptions to others for their opinions, which they are not obliged to honor, with the exception of retention decisions made by the Superintendent of the Chapel, which will be retained at the expense of the Noble Company of the Rose.
As the review reduced the volume on material substantially, it was relocated into a smaller storage unit, with Rose items moved to a different unit (but not yet one exclusive to that group).
