> Date sent:      Tue, 17 Nov 1998 17:54:25 -0800
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> From:           Susan Young <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject:        flash photography allowed in exhibit halls?
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> What are your feelings about allowing museum visitors to take flash
> pictures in your exhibit hall?  If you have a policy against it, does
> that include the media (press and TV) too?
>
> Oh, and by the way, is anyone out there waging a war against squirrels
> in your historic outbuildings?  If you are winning said war, please tell
> me what you are doing.
>
> Regards,
>
> Susan Young
> Shiloh Museum of Ozark History
> Springdale, Arkansas
Hi
I am also one of those Natural History people working with Karin
Scott.  We are very happy with the contents of this list and had
some very good discussions on very interesting and relevant topics
such as museum lights and copyright.  I work in the Palaeontology
Department where we allow quick flash photography in our display
halls, but with the original fossils we only allow photography under
special lights and in the vault, nothing, no spotlights, no flashes.
 We have found that camera crews, such as those from the National
Geographic and the BBC has such good equipment that they either do
not need extra light or they have very soft lights which they
position in the passage outside the vault.  It is more the heat from
the lights that are dangerous.
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Heidi Fourie
Transvaal Museum
South Africa
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