The International Exhibitions Insurance Program, explained plainly

Diagram of layered security around an artwork: perimeter, building shell, interior zone, display or store, and the object

A colleague at a state gallery once asked me, half joking, whether her regional museum could get onto “the government insurance thing” for a touring exhibition she was borrowing three objects for. The honest answer was no, and not because of paperwork or timing. The scheme she meant, the International Exhibitions Insurance Program, was never […]