Hi Everyone,
One word of caution here. When I was the head of objects conservation at the regional lab at the University of Denver and also in my current position with a prominent private practice in Los Angeles I have encountered quite a number of insurance claim projects. While most insurers will cover conservation sometimes they will demand that the work be done by a low cost commecial company (as in disaster recovery claims), or if the estimated cost of the conservation exceeds the insured value of the object(s) the insurer will pay off as a total loss and then the objects at that point are their property. I have done a few treatments for insurers with objects that they owned as a result of a total loss pay off. So it behooves you to make sure that your declared insurance values are up to date, and that you put a clause in your contracts to ALL outside contractors and vendors (film production often can be a source of damage too) that they are to cover the total costs of damage such as staff time, transportation if needed, and professional conservation.
Cheers!
Dave
David Harvey
Conservator
Los Angeles
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From: Lori Rockhold <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:42:53
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Subject: Re: [MUSEUM-L] Artifact Policy
Jennifer,
Our policy has always been that while the Collections Curator assess the damage to the items the Registrar gets, in writing, as may witness accounts of the incident as possible. Once the accounts have been collected, they are then typed up in a form of sorts that includes the answers to the basic questions: who, what, when, where, and how. Then the reports are added to the database (Past Perfect) and the hard files. If the incident occurs during a special/after hour’s event then the accounts are collected from security and the special events coordinator.
If the item/items damaged are on loan, an insurance claim is made and the items are sent for conservation. If the items are part of one of the museum’s collections then it is up to the curator weather or not an outside conservator is needed. That being said, our Curator of Collections is a trained conservationist, if you don’t have a conservator on staff you may want to include that conservation and insurance claims will be addressed on a case be case basis.
Lori
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From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Jennifer Hall
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 3:11 PM
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Subject: [MUSEUM-L] Artifact Policy
Hi,
I am working on policy regarding damaged artifacts for our Rental Coordinator. Unfortunately, we had an incident a few weeks ago and realized at that point that we do not have anything in writing. Does anyone have such a policy that you can share with me?
Thank you,
Jennifer
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