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
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