Department No. I · Est. MMXIX · Room 1 · Floor 2
Everything here is completely unremarkable.
The founding department. Teaspoons, bus tickets, elastic bands — weighed, measured, photographed once, and never cleaned beyond what insects require.
1,426Items accessioned
48On public display
XIRejected weekly
Within this department
- The Catalogue — all 48 objects on display, with notes.
- Standing Orders — what counts as ordinary, and how things are recorded.
- Acquisitions & Rejections — admitted this month, declined with reasons.
- Visiting — the room, the bench, the three handleable items.
Object of the monthRef 0855
Mug with chip
Earthenware, 320 ml. Staff kitchen.
Chipped mugs remain in service, as chipped mugs invariably do.
- Admitted
- Ref 0841: clothes peg, wooden, one spring, garden line, March. Holds as it always held. Acquisitions log.
- Declined
- A “lucky” pebble with a face drawn on it. Luck was the problem; the face merely confirmed it. Rejections.
- Handling
- Three items may be touched: pebble, doorstop, hex key. Everything else is behind glass — not valuable, merely easily altered. Visiting.
- Adopted
- Ref 0006 and others now accept honorary keepers. Duties: none. Adoptions.
No. I · A
The Catalogue
All 48 on display, with measurements, provenance, and the unrevised first note.
No. I · B
Standing Orders
The one test of ordinariness, recording method, and the rule about dust.
No. I · C
Acquisitions
What Thursdays admit, what Thursdays decline, and the exact wording of refusal.