Loans
Object loans are undertaken for a variety of reasons and occur between different museums or between museums and private individuals or commercial entities. The Alliance has compiled this set of loan resources from amongst its own offerings as well as those throughout the nonprofit and museum sector.
Alliance Resources
The Alliance’s Collections Stewardship Professional Network shares a variety of collection-related forms including several for loans.
Loaning Collections to Non-Museum Entities
The Alliance provides information loaning collections to non-museum entities including needing clearly defined and approved institutional policies and procedures, including a collections management policy and code of ethics.
The Alliance provides Tier 3 museum members with sample loan agreements.
Other Resources
Art Museums, Private Collectors and the Public Benefit
The Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) shares a position paper on the relationship between art museums and private collectors (PDF). The paper lists questions that each museum must answer in order to ensure public benefit from the loans and donations private collectors make to museums. The questions are applicable to museums of all disciplines.
The Missouri Historical Records Advisory Board provides a list of information to be included in a loan agreement, as well as sample loan agreements.