The audit shows that national collections housed in 'non-national' institutions are in a poorer state than those in national museums. Five of these seven 'non-national' museums have substantial backlogs in the registration of their collections. Furthermore, in many cases, the registration fails to give the objects' correct whereabouts, making them difficult or impossible to find. In general the institutions have too little money or human resources to eliminate these backlogs with any speed. Nonetheless, the objects were in general in reasonable condition.
Conditions are better at the two former national museums.
Both have virtually completed the registration of the part of their collection that is being investigated. In one case, work on the state of conservation too is almost completely up to date, but in the second museum about one third of the objects are damaged or incomplete. It does not inspect the non-national institutions that come under the Ministry s auspices or institutions that operate under the auspices of one of the other three ministries. New regulations are currently under preparation to govern the supervision of part of the cultural heritage under state ownership. The State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science has made it known that collections housed in institutions operating under the auspices of the other three ministries will receive special attention.