J.IIC-CG VOLUME 18 (1993)

A Conservator’s Thoughts Regarding Policy and Travelling Exhibitions at the National Gallery of Canada

Marion H. Barclay

Recently, with the increased numbers of travelling exhibitions and loans, conservators practising within museums have had to redefine their role to include input into the development of policy and procedures dealing with loans of works of art. Conservators should understand what their institution considers to be its guiding purposes, as set out in its mandate, so that preventive and remedial conservation principles become a constructive part of the institution’s policies.

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