Amen! I'm actually pulling a couple of our freshest items to use as retirement gifts this year. They will be presented at our annual meeting/dinner, and I'm counting on the oohs and aahs to translate to sales in our museum store. It seems to me that the relationship of the museum and museum store are symbiotic. Becky Fitzgerald -----Original Message----- From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Daphne Holmes Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 11:12 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Museum Gift Shops working with other departments We have a few situations each year where we take items from the shop as gifts for retiring board members, our annual auction and things like that. Whatever staff person is overseeing the event/activity confers with our shop manager who selects several items that she was going to write-off anyway and we pick from those. Sometimes we do need to pull from her freshest stock and the Museum usually covers her cost. Our shop manager is a museum employee and the shop is part of our operations. Daphne Holmes Curator of Education Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum --- Misty Tilson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: From: Misty Tilson <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:33:32 -0500 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Museum Gift Shops working with other departments Greetings everyone, I am posting this question for a colleague. Does anyone have a written policy (or can shed any light) on the issue of other departments working with the museum gift shop as far as gifts for corporate memberships or volunteers? Do any of you buy these gifts through your museum shop wholesale, is there a percentage paid to the museum shop? Is this even something that should be done? I think the issue with our gift shop manager is that she just doesn't want to share her vendors. If anyone has a written policy concerning this and wouldn't mind sharing it, we'd love to see it. Or we'd just like to hear if anyone has faced this before. Please feel free to contact me offline. Misty Tilson Augusta Museum of History [log in to unmask] ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).