Institutional closure

Organizers plan how staff return or relocate deposits, review private records, settle responsibilities, communicate with participants if the venue or institution closes. They identify responsibility for possessions and records during the transition.

Staff inventory the collection, confirm condition and custody, contact responsible people, arrange retrieval or another expressly agreed destination. They examine unresolved claims, unreachable custodians, ongoing loans, living care, pending correspondence. Digital material requires decisions about access, continued hosting, export, deletion, later authority.

The history can preserve selected accounts of the house after possessions separate. Physical care continues to require actual action. Return, unavailability, records develop the separate operations. Closure planning helps a temporary institution offer a clear account of responsibility without promising indefinite custody beyond its capacity.