stick to your guns.  copyright issues are one important reason.  you never
know how images in your collection will be used.  also there is the danger
of damage due to the cumulative affect of light flashes in the galleries,
esp. for works on paper.

Bennett J. Siegel
Chief Preparator/Exhibit Designer
Teaching Artist
Delaware Art Museum
800 S. Madison St.
Wilmington, DE 19801

-----Original Message-----
From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
Behalf Of heather smith
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 3:55 PM
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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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