This is news to me.

I'm familiar with having to pay borrowers' fees to book an entire
traveling exhibit, but having borrowed pieces from private individuals
and institutions, many museums (small, medium, large, non-government,
Federal, Provincial, Municipal, military--whatever!) and corporations,
I've never been asked to pay to borrow individual items (except for
conservation, crating, shipping, insurance, etc.).  Similarly, I've
never worked for a museum that charged borrowers of artifacts a
fee--I've always considered the increased exposure my museum gets from a
credit line in someone else's exhibit to be well worth the loan (as well
as it being part of our mandate to use our collections in public
exhibitions).

Do museums that charge these borrowers' fees also charge researchers
for access to their (the museums') collections?



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Tim McShane, Assistant--Cultural History
Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery
1302 Bomford Crescent S.W.
Medicine Hat, AB   T1A 5E6
(403) 502-8587

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The basic rate for most museums is $100 per object. Plus any additional
fees
for conservation, packing, and crating.

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