We have a life-sized indoor town called the "Street of
Shops" at the McKinley Museum.  We had a similar
problem with our dry goods store.  Most of the other
rooms have a rope up at the door so you can peek in,
but there are too many neat things on the shelves
behind the counter in the store to see from the
doorway.

We opted to build plexiglass walls on the inside of
the counter, and we left larger (ie: can't easily be
stolen) or reproduction artifacts on the counter.  The
result was that people can walk through the space, and
the plexi almost disappears because it is behind the
counter.

Not sure if this would work for a kitchen, but you
could maybe adapt something...

Way to go on planning a 1950s kitchen!  I have been
collecting 1950s kitchen things for quite some time in
the hopes of doing something similar in the future!

Kim Kenney
Curator
McKinley Museum
Canton OH


--- Georgia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello,
>   I am an undergrad student in an exhibition
> planning and design course.  For our final project,
> my group and I are planning an exhibit that deals
> with 100 years of the American Interior.  Our final
> presentation focuses on a display of a 1950s kitchen
> that we would mock up if we were actually creating
> the exhibit.
>    My question deals with the security of the
> objects in the kitchen.  We would like visitors to
> walk through the kitchen without any barriers, but
> we want to use real 1950s appliances in the exhibit.
>  Are there any other ways we can protect our
> toasters, blenders, etc. from thefts without putting
> cases around them?  Would cases interfere with the
> visitors' experience?  We had talked about putting
> up a reading rail in front of the counters that had
> appliances on them.
>    Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
>               Thanks a lot!
>                              Georgia Millward
>
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