OK, my contribution.  At Sutter's Fort, many years
ago, we had an exhibit of 19th century dresses.  Since
they were all later than the fort's active period
(1840s), the exhibit was removed when the new
interpretive plan was instituted.  For our summer
program, our interpreters are dressed in 1840s gear,
as do our docents the rest of the year.  Last summer,
while sitting in Sutter's office (situated near where
the dress exhibit had been), dressed as thus, I was
approached by a woman visiting with her granddaughter.
 She asked me what had become of the clothing exhibit
and I informed her that it had been removed several
years ago and the reason why.  Her reply was, "Oh.
Well, its too bad she can't see the clothes of the
period!"  I gently pointed out that that was the
reason why we dressed as we did!  She still didn't get
it!

--- "Reynolds, Jennifer" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Many years ago (no current staff involved!) I
> overheard a visitor passing
> the open office door of the museum secretary and
> say, "My, these mannequins
> are good. She looks almost real."
>
> Jennifer
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marina Daiman [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 12:33 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: AAM Poster session
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> 1. visitors believe that nothing that's in a museum
> is real
>
> 2. visitors think we do a good jobs with our
> mock-ups
>
>
> Marina Daiman
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>
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