Jan,

 

Brilliant.

 

 

Thanks!

 

 

Laurie

 

From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jan McCormick
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2016 9:00 AM
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Subject: Re: [MUSEUM-L] Portable - mobile pedestals for temporary display use?

 

Greetings Laurie,

 

My husband is a cultural anthropologist professor and teaches at a college. Knowing that he uses a power point for all his classes and makes the powerpoint available a week before class for students to download and make notes…Have you considered creating a teaching tool that can be downloaded and utilized by professors all over the country, and put the exhibit in storage somewhere else until the construction is finished. It sounds like your exhibit will take a beating transporting it to various classrooms, and maybe not the most affective teaching tool.

 

Just a thought…

 

Jan McCormick

Educator/Program Coordinator

Alice T. Miner Museum

 

On Oct 28, 2016, at 6:37 PM, Laurie A. Sedicino <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > wrote:

 

 

 

Hello,

 

I need to ask for the list serve’s help with suggestions for what to recommend regarding mobile “walls” or pedestals for mounting/displaying large exhibit panels.  This is for a former, temporary exhibit that was in a 4,500-ft. temporary gallery.  We dismantled the exhibit in 2014 and offered all of the panels to a local university’s School of Public Health  because it was on the topic of health disparities and thought it could be used as a teaching tool.  They were thrilled, so we carefully boxed it all up, took meticulous inventory, and moved it to a storage room at the school.  We had hoped it would find a home in their building as a reinterpreted, permanent exhibit, but they are doing a major renovation on the entire building (where they will have their offices and classrooms), and mounting it as a permanent exhibit is not possible at this time.  Our second hope is to use the panels in conjunction with class to enhance class instruction/discussion. The only way we see this possibility is if we can purchase mobile pedestals or portable display systems where certain panels can be (easily?) temporarily mounted on them and then switched out for other panels as the various topics related to the social determinants of health are covered.  (It just is inconceivable to have each panel “carried” in to teach from it, not to mention the sure destruction of the integrity of the panels if handled this way). I thought the list serve might be able to suggest what has worked for them in a similar situation.  The panels are all quite large(18” x 24” minimum)  and made of dibond aluminum or sintra.  Some of them are pretty heavy, and some are very large.

 

Hopefully, I have explained the situation well enough to give you an accurate picture of needs.  The situation is not ideal, but we are all determined to find a way to make it work, because the exhibit panels (photographs; graphs; illustrations; document reproductions, etc.) would be such an asset to and experiential augmentation of verbal instruction on the topic.  Thank you for any suggestions you can offer!

 

Laurie Sedicino

Exhibit Planner / Assistant to Curator

David J. Sencer CDC Museum

Atlanta, GA

 

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