Museum peace.

A recent report has shown a frightening lack of insurance provision among the UK's museums, due, in part, to a misapprehension about the costs involved. It is time insurers blew the dust off this misconception, says Clare Pardy.

A report on a survey carried out for the Museums & Galleries
Commission and published last year made the recommendation: "All museums,
however small, ought to have both risk management and emergency
preparedness plans." Yet some 18% of the 1680 registered museums in this
country do not even have compulsory cover for employee liability.


It is evident that these institutions are generally under-informed on the
risks, the liabilities and the obligations that they can incur. And the
commission's report

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