In my usual way, I'm reply long after my machine has deleted the
original post.

I recommend you contact, and if at all possible, work with, fan groups.

Star Trek fan groups, like many media groups, attract amazingly high
membership numbers ... at the very least, a joint marketing proposal
such as the British venues organized with the Official British ST club
(sorry, I probably called it by the wrong name) could be, as they say,
to your advantage.

I saw the exhibition in Edinburgh (long queues at the weekend, went back
on Monday.  I, personally, would re-write the panels, which have far too
many words on them, and are not 'layered'.  Not that they are
uninteresting, but they are 'book on the wall'.  The actual things on
display are interesting, and their interpretation is good.  Some things
aren't, I think, made enough of: for example, a lot is made of 'the
first inter-racial kiss' - but nothing said about the absence of
homosexuality, the male/female power relations, and so much else where
Star Trek _wasn't_ mould-breaking, merely echoing the times.

Having seen, since the exhibition, some of 'Waggon Train', I now
understand the original concept of ST ('Waggon Train to the Stars') much
better - you could put in an intro-video (queue video?), or send videos
to schools, showing 'Waggon Train'.

Best wishes (and by the by, there's a James Bond exhibition advertised
in the latest _Museums Journal_)
--
Pat Reynolds
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Keeper of Social History, Buckinghamshire County Museum
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