You are not the only place that is closed on Monday.  In fact most
Houston museums are closed on Mondays including us.  Also we do not
allow photos.  Fear not, you are not alone.  We have to have at least
on day a week to fix things.

On Jun 1, 2004, at 3:00 PM, Jill wrote:

> Heather -
>
> You are *NOT* the only museum in the world that does not allow
> photography
> (flash or otherwise) in our galleries We certainly don't allow it and
> I've
> been almost nowhere where it WAS permitted.  Of course, we have been
> told
> more than once that we are the only museum in the wold that dares to be
> closed on Monday, so what do I know?  We are clearly behind the times.
>
> Jill R. Chancey, Curator
> Lauren Rogers Museum of Art
> Laurel, MS 39440
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> (phone) 601-649-6374
> (fax) 601-428-8601
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "heather smith" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 2:55 PM
> 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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