[NHCOLL-L:2579] Insurance Values

[Rachel Delovio]

Hello everyone,

First, I would like to thank everyone in advance for any input as I realize
the assignment of monetary values to natural history collections is a
difficult issue.  I was recently requested to provide a value to the
collections for in-house insurance purposes and I have found this to be a
challenging task.

I would appreciate any comments on how other Museum's address this issue.
Do you include a blanket cost for the entire collection or provide an
item-by-item inventory?

Thanks again,
Rachel  

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Rachel Delovio
Collections Manager/Registrar
Miami Museum of Science & Planetarium
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