Ross!  Do you have any idea how many Disnoids actually work in museums?
I have come across one or two at the Autry or here; and they're all in
the marketing, special events department.  Aaaaarrrggghhh.

Don't mean to be unkind to them, but they do not have our sensitivity;
they're still into the "let's make the big bucks" approach by spending
lots of money in advertising and "promotional" stuff; to hell with the
historical value of an object, let's make money off of it, squeeze for
all it's worth, then go ahead and accession it into the collection.
Double aaargggh!

O
Olivia S. Anastasiadis, Curator
Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace
Yorba Linda, CA  92886
(714) 993-5075 ext. 224; fax (714) 528-0544


On Sun, 29 Jun 1997 19:12:44 -0400 "Ross Weeks Jr."
<[log in to unmask]> writes:
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>> From: Byron Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Museum News (was STILL  (a small rant))
>> Date: Sunday, June 29, 1997 12:05 AM
>>
>> It seems like most of the print expended in the field is either for
>"glossy"......

>Byron, right on!
>
>The folks at the AAM office are, I'm sure, quite interested in this
>exchange and maybe we can hope enough of the association's governing
>board ....>anyone suggests an expansion project is going to give a big
boost to
>admissions fees and this is what's needed to put a museum in the
>black, that person ought to be working for Disney World, not a museum,
in my
>humble opinion.  An expansion program for a museum must be based
>entirely on its worth, not its market appeal.