Replicas of Vatican Library Treasures
Marketed
The Vatican Library has awarded a worldwide 15-year license to a Canadian firm to market and exhibit reproductions of items in the pope’s collections. Michella Frosch of Vancouver’s Gloria Management is now authorized to have reproductions made of items in the Vatican Library, organize them into traveling exhibitions, and sell products in conjunction with the shows.
“It really is something very special that we’ve got the opportunity to take replicas from artifacts and take that to the world,” Frosch said in the August 13 Canadian National Post. “A lot of people will never have the means to go [to the library]. Through the exhibition program, they have the opportunity to see some of the contents.”
Frosch added that she worked for seven years to win the license from papal lawyers. She hopes to begin with a museum show in Toronto in summer 2002 that coincides with the pope’s visit there for the World Youth Conference. Her firm in turn must return royalties that will help the Vatican maintain the collections.
Gloria Management will work with a handful of other Vatican licensees to sell exhibit reproductions, chocolates, candy, pens, scarves, ceramic floor tiles, and jewelry tied to the library through a mail-order catalog and Internet site.
Posted August 20, 2001.
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