We don't charge a loan fee. We expect the borrower to pay for and arrange shipping & insurance. We do charge for for any extra costs we incur such as conservation photography etc. (although often there is nothing to charge for).
Because we don't charge a loan fee, as a matter of principle we won't pay a loan fee (we are of course happy to pay additional costs incurred by the lender). We have on occasion not borrowed objects that the curator wanted for an exhibition because the lender wanted to charge a fee.
Why don't we charge? Mainly because we consider the free interchange of material held for the public benefit to be a "Good Thing". In addition, when we lend objects that are not normally on display to the public, we are fulfilling one of our objectives which is to enable access to as much of our collection as possible (this also applies to objects normally on display if the exhibition means they can be seen by people who can't get to see them at our site). Finally although we lend more than we borrow, we could afford to put on fewer exhibitions if we were charged loan fees.
Trevor Reynolds
Collections Registrar, English Heritage
Room 605, 23 Savile Row, London, W1S 2ET, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7973 3482 fax: +44 (0)20 7973 3001 (GTN 3503 3482)
>>> Timothy McShane <[log in to unmask]> 12/20 11:00 pm >>>
This is news to me.
I'm familiar with having to pay borrowers' fees to book an entire
traveling exhibit, but having borrowed pieces from private individuals
and institutions, many museums (small, medium, large, non-government,
Federal, Provincial, Municipal, military--whatever!) and corporations,
I've never been asked to pay to borrow individual items (except for
conservation, crating, shipping, insurance, etc.). Similarly, I've
never worked for a museum that charged borrowers of artifacts a
fee--I've always considered the increased exposure my museum gets from a
credit line in someone else's exhibit to be well worth the loan (as well
as it being part of our mandate to use our collections in public
exhibitions).
Do museums that charge these borrowers' fees also charge researchers
for access to their (the museums') collections?
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Tim McShane, Assistant--Cultural History
Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery
1302 Bomford Crescent S.W.
Medicine Hat, AB T1A 5E6
(403) 502-8587
>>> [log in to unmask] 12/20/02 11:19AM >>>
The basic rate for most museums is $100 per object. Plus any additional
fees
for conservation, packing, and crating.
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