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Re: visitor photography in museums
From:
Christina Myatt <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:
Tue, 1 Jun 2004 15:28:19 -0500
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You are certainly not the only ones!  Funny how that seems to be the
response that is supposed to evoke some feelings of guilt!

Must be a hold over from the "but all the other kids' moms let them" days!

As one of the other posters said, most people want to know why and then
understand and are happy to comply.  There will always be one....

Christina
Christina M. Myatt
Theatrical Programming Coordinator
Putnam Museum
1717 West 12th Street
Davenport IA 52804
563.324.1054 ext. 207 (phone)
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-----Original Message-----
From: heather smith <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 15:55:29 -0400
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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