I worked as a receptionist at the Telfair Museum of Art and they do not let
you take photographs, unless it was a student who signed a waiver and then
it was no flash allowed and it could not be focused on one item.  Some
people were upset with this, some people were willing to pay admission just
to take their picture with the Bird girl statue. They started making
arrangements with students and others who had special permission to take
photographs before the museum opened.

Sarah Williams

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From: "heather smith" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 12:55 PM
Subject: visitor photography in museums


> Help! - I want to get advise about allowing photography in our museum and
> art gallery. For 25 years we have had a no photography rule. It just
seemed
> too complicated to allow flash photography of some things and not others.
> Then when modern flash didn't seem to be a big problem anymore the
> complicated copyright issues became a new reason not to allow photos to be
> taken. Today we made a visitor from Washington State very unhappy with us
> because we would not allow him to take photographs - we are apparently the
> only museum in the world who is still not allowing photos to be taken of
> our exhibits. Is this true??? What are your policies out there??
>
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