We are just beginning a traveling exhibits program that will include 
artifacts.  These will be small exhibits traveling mostly to local history 
museums around the state.   I wanted to know if anyone had any guidelines 
for when a Curator or Collections Manager needed to travel with the 
artifacts and when it would be okay for artifacts to be shipped to the 
borrowing museum and unpacked by their staff.  Would someone from 
Collections need to accompany only fragile objects, or would they need to 
go any time artifacts travel?  What other factors do we need to consider?  
Most of the places that would get these exhibits would be small, with very 
limited budgets, so we are trying to keep expenses down for them.  Thanks 
for your help.

Lisa Dunbar
Collections Manager
Orange County Regional History Center

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