National Firearms Museum would be a great place to talk to.  Doug Wicklund
is the senior curator and he can be reached at 703/267-1603.  I think they
have a few things down in the vault that are too Dangerous for exhibit.
Another good place might be Gettysburg or any Civil War museum in which they
have found old ammunition.  The old canon balls are normally dangerous
becuase they sometimes have explosives still inside.

-Elizabeth "Sissy" Caldwell

>From: H Baskas <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Radio story ideas needed
>Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 07:23:42 -0700
>
>Hello list
>
>I produce the Hidden Treasures Radio Project, which is a series of radio
>features about museums that airs on NPR's All Things Considered and on
>Studio 360.  (Last friday's ATC story about the proposed Las Vegas Mob
>Museum was part of that series.)
>
>Studio 360 - and arts and culture magazine - is doing a theme show about
>DANGER and I'm looking for museums that may have objects or collections
>that
>are rarely or never displayed because it would be too dangerous to do so.
>
>Danger can be widely interpreted - is something considered too dangerous
>because it's a loaded gun? Radioactive? Explosive?  Or perhaps considered
>explosive because the information revealed by displaying that object would
>be 'dangerous' or too controversial in a community?
>
>Please let me know if you have ideas, objects, leads, etc.
>
>Harriet Baskas
>Project Director, Hidden Treasures Radio Project
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