My Gala Ball committee doesn't understand why I do not want to permit eating
and drinking in the permanent and temporary galleries of our new museum
opening this Fall.  I have told them that this is against museum standard
practice and that if we allowed it, may hurt our chances for accreditation,
Smithsonian affiliateship, and traveling exhibitions.  Their response to me
is that if The Downtown Chicago Museums can do it, why can't we?

Does anybody have any other suggestions as to how I can convince them that
this is not the route to go.

Susan English
Joliet Area Historical Museum

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