traveling show insurance question

["Valerie Imus" <vimus@ybca.org>]

This is more of a Registrarial question, but hopefully someone in PACIN can help out with this. When you are travelling an exhibition of borrowed work, at what point does the organizing venue typically insure the work and at what point does the exhibiting venue typically take over? Our policy as an organizing institution has been thus far limited to covering the work as it is shipped to us from the lenders, while it's on site, and travels from us to the first exhibiting venue. Once it arrives at the exhibiting venue, it is covered by them until it reaches the next venue, and so on, until it returns to us, when we take over again. I know some institutions cover their shows throughout the entire tour, but it's financially not really viable for us to maintain insurance for all of our travelling exhibitions all the time while also covering exhibitions in-house. Right now we are going through a domestic to international transition in a tour, and a venue is balking at their contractual obligation to cover the show in transit. Does anyone have experience with these issues, any suggestions or good resources? 
Thanks very much.


	Valerie Imus
	Exhibitions Manager
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