Please answer on list -- I'm interested in this, too.
                        Katharine

At 10:41 AM 5/4/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>Does anyone have any comments/experience regarding the long term loan of
>Museum objects to other museums and possibly corporate institutions in
>return for a guaranteed hire fee?
>
>We're currently looking at what to do with some duplicate items of
>high-profile Mackintosh furniture which we would otherwise keep in store.
>(In some cases, we have 20 or more chairs of exactly the same design!) We
>believe that one or more organisations might just be interested in acquiring
>some of this work, on long term loan, to form part of their existing,
>permanent displays.
>
>Obviously, we'd need to be fully satisfied over the choice of venue, as well
>as environmental, conservation, security and insurance issues but are there
>any obvious pitfalls?
>
>As an institution, we don't want to be seen to be lowering our professional
>standards and we don't really want to enter into an ethical minefield
>either. However, if there's an opportunity to increase our institutional
>profile (through these loans), it lessens the pressure on our own limited
>storage facilities and we also gain financially out of it, then all well and
>good.
>
>Your comments would be much appreciated.
>Peter Trowles  M.Litt., FRSA
>Taffner Curator, Mackintosh Collection
>Glasgow School of Art
>167 Renfrew Street
>GLASGOW G3 6RQ
>SCOTLAND
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