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Hello,

I'm interested in if, and how, other museums handle reporting on objects loans to other institutions/exhibits as part of your museum's overall visitation numbers. Our museum has a number of objects on loan - from an entire intact furniture collection on loan to a historic house, to a single quilt on loan to a travelling exhibit. How do you handle reporting these numbers. Do they have a part in your museum's visitation numbers?

Thanks,

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Ellen Korenblat
Director of Community Engagement
Historic Arkansas Museum
Little Rock AR
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At a previous job I oversaw several small traveling exhibits.  We just had the borrowing institutions report their visitation and used those numbers to help justify the traveling exhibitions program.  We did not count the numbers as part of our visitation.

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David Beard
Director
Museum of the Gulf Coast
Port Arthur TX

Original Message:
Sent: 02-09-2016 11:10 AM
From: Ellen Korenblat
Subject: Loaned Objects and Visitation Numbers

Hello,

I'm interested in if, and how, other museums handle reporting on objects loans to other institutions/exhibits as part of your museum's overall visitation numbers. Our museum has a number of objects on loan - from an entire intact furniture collection on loan to a historic house, to a single quilt on loan to a travelling exhibit. How do you handle reporting these numbers. Do they have a part in your museum's visitation numbers?

Thanks,

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Ellen Korenblat
Director of Community Engagement
Historic Arkansas Museum
Little Rock AR
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