For most of our permanent exhibits, we figure 20 years. For those with a high degree of interactivity (and mind you, they're built differently) 10 years.

David Meyersburg
Chief of Historic Sites Exhibits
NYS Office of Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation
Peebles Island Resource Center
Waterford, New York 12188
(518) 237-8643 ext. 3228  -  fax (518) 235-4248


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From: Cindy Ryman Yost [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 1:47 PM
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Subject: Exhibit Depreciation


What schedule do you use for the depreciation of permanent exhibits in your museum?  We are a children's museum so I realize there are many variables in making the determination, but I am curious to know what other museums do in their accounting.

Cindy Ryman Yost
Lincoln Children's Museum

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