Like any project with consultants - make sure you and your staff have a clear
idea of roles and expectations. What are the goals, specifically, for the
project? Who is responsible for what? Who reports to whom? Who is the project
coordinator?

Are there check points along the way with the project so that progress and
discoveries can be shared? Perhaps, in light of discoveries, the results of
the project might be a bit differant than origially imagined. Can the project
be flexible.

Make it clear what belongs to the museum and what belongs to the consultant
with research, finished products, copyright, etc.

What are the time schedules? What provisions are there if the consultant
doesn't come through?

Check around with others who have hired the curatorial consultant to find out
their work style, how they worked with other museum team members and what the
product was like.

K. Boardman

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