Speaking from personal experience ( one month data inputting the Littlecote collection for the RA) there is something of dislocation between the knowledgeable and the administration at the museum. This is also a huge collection, many of the labels went on a very long time ago, up to a century and a half in some cases, and it will be a long time before anyone gets round to changing them. The Littlecote collection was acquired more than 20 years before I was given the job of putting it on their computer database. they have a huge collection, they are doing their best at a time of falling budgets and a lack of interest from the the presiding authority.
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