Sample Agreements for Museum Exhibitions

Following are sample agreements for study in the development of exhibitions designed to tour to multiple venues. They were prepared by collecting actual agreements used by various American art museums and combining elements of them to arrive at a composite agreement.These sample agreements are for educational purposes only and are not to be considered legal documents. They have not been reviewed by legal counsel and may be incomplete, inaccurate and not reflective of the needs of any particluar situation.

Curator Agreement The purpose of this type of agreement is to memorialize the understanding between the organizer of an exhibition and the person who will fulfil the role of curator for the exhibition.

 

Exhibition Agreement This type of agreement is designed to memorialize the understanding between the organizer of an exhibition and an institution who will host the exhibition at its facility.

 

Lender Agreement The purpose of this type of agreement is to memorialize the understanding between the organizer of an exhibition and a person who will lend one or more art objects for the exhibition.

 

Return to Exhibitions

Return to Museums Explained

Links to sources of information outside of our web site are provided only as referrals for your further consideration. Please use due diligence in judging the quality of information contained in these and all other web sites. Information from linked sources may be inaccurate or out of date. Traditional Fine Arts Organization, Inc. (TFAO) neither recommends or endorses these referenced organizations. Although TFAO includes links to other web sites, it takes no responsibility for the content or information contained on those other sites, nor exerts any editorial or other control over them. For more information on evaluating web pages see TFAO's General Resources section in Online Resources for Collectors and Students of Art History.

Search Resource Library for thousands of articles and essays on American art.

Copyright 2008 Traditional Fine Arts Organization, Inc., an Arizona nonprofit corporation. All rights reserved.