The chairman of Britain’s Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries says British museums need to loosen up. “Pointing out that museums across the country have an average of 75 per cent of objects in store, he advised them to be ‘less precious’ about deaccessioning. Lord Evans congratulated the Museum of London, which has given boxes of Roman artifacts to primary schools. In answer to a query about his earlier suggestion that museums should lend to pubs, he argued that this might sometimes be appropriate for sturdy objects, such as agricultural equipment (“but not Canalettos”, he quickly added).” – The Art Newspaper