It really doesn't matter how long or short a time a collection or exhibit is
up there will always be people who "miss" it. We had a very large temporary
exhibit (Women at War) up years ago, it was to be up for 2 years only and
was extended for another year or two because of its size and popularity. It
was always billed as a temporary exhibit, but wouldn't you know - more then
2 years after it came down we had people coming wanting to see it and
wondering where it was.

It is always a difficult balance between the preservation of collections,
the exhibition of them and what the public wants to see..

Carol Reid
Canadian War Museum


> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject:      Re: What do you keep out?
>
> Like your visit to see the pendulum, we have visitors who miss an entire
> room exhibit on a local 19th century photographer (Peter Britt) which was
> installed in the 1950s and removed around 1990. Visitors still want to see
> the "Britt Room" even though we have limited space to exhibit our other
> wonderful collections.
>
> As David Haberstich wrote,  "visitors and
> > members of the museum community want it back, they should make their
> voices
> > heard.  I think most of the staff would agree that it's your museum too,
> and
> > it's possible that some of the folks who make the decisions aren't aware
> that
> > people care about this."
>
> Next year we will be removing an exhibit on firearms that has been in
> place
> since 1956! While we have other firearms on display, I'm sure there will
> be
> some comments about the change. Meanwhile, we think the public wants to
> see
> more and more changing exhibits and more and more collections. How to
> balance the two??
>
> Mary Ames Sheret
> Curator of Collections/Exhibits
> Southern Oregon Historical Society
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