We don't allow photos in the galleries.

Barbara Bowerman
Visitor & Volunteer Services Coordinator
Joslyn Art Museum


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> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 2:55 pm
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> Subject: visitor photography in museums
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> 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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