Apologies if this comes through twice. I tried to send it on Friday
but the authorization to post seems not to have worked.
I would be interested to hear about how loan fees
are handled at other institutions.
Does your museum charge loan
fees?
If so, how much?
Is the fee characterized as a fee for actually
borrowing the object or as a processing fee to help offset staff
time, etc.?
Does the fee vary based on the length of the loan
or the number of objects borrowed?
Do you charge only for for-profit
insitutions? Or those institutions that, themselves, charge loan
fees? Do you have a liberal policy for waiving loan fees for smaller
institutions that cannot afford the fee, but whose exhibits you wish to
support?
Please feel free to respond to me off-list, if
you would prefer.
Many thanks!
Catherine Dean
Catherine E. Dean
Curator of Collections
APVA--Preservation
Virginia
204 West Franklin Street
Richmond, VA
23220-5012
804-648-1889
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