§ 2.05.060. Accession (acquisition) of property for the Collection.

The City Administrator will approve OMCA policies governing the accession of property for the Collection that are in accordance with the standards of the American Alliance of Museums and Association of Art Museum Directors and as revised from time to time. The City and OMCA will maintain current copies of the policy in the City Administrator's Office and at the OMCA.

The OMCA adds to the Collection of California artworks, historical artifacts, and natural science specimens through gifts of tangible personal property, transfers from institutions or agencies, purchases, bequests, and through field collection. All additions to the Collection, regardless of the source of funds used for the acquisition, become the property of the City of Oakland, to be held in public trust.

The OMCA will accept gifts or transfers, purchase art, artifacts, or specimens, based on curatorial judgment in the context of the purpose and strategies for collection growth as laid out in the Collecting Plan, and the relevance of the object(s) to the OMCA's mission, the relation to other objects already in the collection, an evaluation of physical condition of the object(s), and the OMCA's ability to maintain and preserve the object(s).

The City Administrator shall approve the accession of property to the Collection valued over five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00) at the time of acquisition.

(Ord. 13461, § 1, 11-28-2017)