An excellent source of all sorts of information about traveling exhibits is
the new book by Rebecca Buck and Jean Gilmore, On the Road Again: Developing
and Managing Traveling Exhibitions (do not leave home without it).

janice

Janice Klein
Director, Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
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Behalf Of Lisa Dunbar
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 9:37 AM
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Subject: traveling exhibits


We are just beginning a traveling exhibits program that will include
artifacts.  These will be small exhibits traveling mostly to local histor=
y
museums around the state.   I wanted to know if anyone had any guidelines=

for when a Curator or Collections Manager needed to travel with the
artifacts and when it would be okay for artifacts to be shipped to the =

borrowing museum and unpacked by their staff.  Would someone from
Collections need to accompany only fragile objects, or would they need to=

go any time artifacts travel?  What other factors do we need to consider?=

Most of the places that would get these exhibits would be small, with ver=
y
limited budgets, so we are trying to keep expenses down for them.  Thanks=

for your help.

Lisa Dunbar
Collections Manager
Orange County Regional History Center

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