Hello,
I am wondering how others have navigated an issue I have encountered...
I am assisting a college to install a collection of historic photographs and associated text panels. The college once had a museum, but it is no longer active and they are now maintaining a collection. These photographs and a few small artifacts (pens with historic provenance mostly) will be going in to a room that is duel purpose exhibition and reception space. We learned that their is a policy that if a nail goes into the wall, a union carpenter has to do it. This disrupts our plan to have a museum professional do the graphic identity, exhibit design, and install. The one work around is that this rule does not apply to "art." In historical museums, I know we often encounter this issue of stated rules/exceptions for "art" that doesn't necessarily contain language for historic artifacts/archives. It seems to me that this exemption should also apply to historic artifacts because the spirit of the rule is to give the college the ability to care for its own valuable objects. Can someone share with me any language they have for communicating this to the union liaison?
Thank you!
Jaden
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Jaden Hansen
Founding Director, Museum of Minneapolis
Minneapolis, MN
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