Our trustees moved Dartmouth Museum to allowing non commercial photography in May 2012 and we altered the policy on http://dartmouthmuseum.org/about-us/ to reflect that. We also have a welcoming notice in the museum itself which I took a snap of last time I was on duty and uploaded to http://tinyurl.com/d4mhfyd (Our Facebook photo gallery)
We don't like flash. That's not because of the alleged light damage. It's because it annoys the bejasus out of other visitors. And tripods are things we have no room for without causing trip hazards.
Commercial photography is different, really because it requires time to set up and because it seems unfair that others make a profit from our labours, so we make sensible arrangements with commercial requests and try to accommodate them out of hours.
Our string opinions are that the visitor always comes first if we can possibly make it so. We want to encourage more visitors, and allowing photography is a small and uncontroversial step on that road.
On 15 Oct 2012, at 15:41, Rebecca Atkinson wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I'm writing a feature for Museums Journal on allowing visitors to take photographs in museums/galleries - some of you might know we also ran a poll on the MA website a month or so ago, which threw up lots of interesting comments.
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> http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/30072012-poll-should-museums-allow-photography
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> I'd be really interested in talking to anybody with strong views on this issue - for or against - and to find out a bit more about different organisation's policies on this issue. For example, if you allow photography in some areas and not others, how do you police this?
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> I'm also looking for any interesting uses of visitors' photographs, such as the Met's Get Closer.
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> My email is [log in to unmask] - thanks, I hope to hear from some of you.
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