If ALL your visitors visit the site in tours led by docents AND ALL your
docents are well trained and good communicators, labels might spoil the
atmosphere.

If these two conditions can't be met (BOTH of them), you need labels...but
of a sort that will not spoil the atmosphere for the docents.

Harry

"Those who play with cats must expect to get scratched"

               -  Cervantes, "Don Quixote"

Harry Needham, M.A., CFE, etc.
President
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----- Original Message -----
From: Havelka, Marilynn <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: labels in historic site museums


> brief reply - if led by well trained docents do not really need labels -
> would not put labels on an artifact.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Frevert [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: July 29, 2000 7:31 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: labels in historic site museums
>
>
> I would like some reactions about a proposal to use informational labels
on
> machinery and artifacts in our working historic grist mill museum, where
> tours are led by docents.  Do you consider this to be helpful or
> distracting?  Any feedback would be appreciated.
>
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