Hello everyone,

Our museum has recently received a request to borrow one of our artifacts (a
motorcycle, to be precise) for use in a film.  Now, this obviously raises a
number of concerns, and we're still very early in negotiating this process,
but we wanted to hear what other museums have done in similar situations.
Have you lent your artifacts?  If so, how did you work out the details about
overseeing the object, price to borrow the artifact, and other issues I
might not even be thinking about?  

I could swear I've seen this topic (or one very like it) come up before on
the listserv, so if anybody could point me in the direction of any previous
threads where this topic was discussed, I would really appreciate it.  

Thanks!
Marcella

Marcella D. Wiget
Curator of Collections
Reno County Historical Society
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