On Fri, 4 Dec 1998 09:43:15 -0500 "Harris, Nick" <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
>A few smaller museums have begun to prevent visitors who are taking
>notes in loan exhibitions from making sketches in their notebooks of the
works
>on display.

The banned sketching activity does NOT involve wet media, easels,
>tripods or any equipment other than a pen and a small notebook.  Do you
support
>such a ban or do you oppose it as inconsistent with the educational
mission
>of an art museum?
>
I suppose it depends on what caused these museums to have a "ban"
enacted.  From our perspective, regarding loaned collections, we do have
restrictions from the lenders that would prevent allowing visitors from
taking photographs or making sketches of their artifacts; from a batch of
20 lenders, maybe two or three have requested certain restrictions due to
copyright, security or other internal reasons.  This poses a dilemma
since we can't physically follow the visitors around all day to prevent
them from breaking our contract with the two or three lenders, (since
there's only two of us in the curatorial department), so we end up
restricting the entire show.
Perhaps this is what is happening?

What about  the permanent galleries?  Does the banned sketching
activities also include them?

O

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