The issue of alcohol in or as an exhibit is very relevant to a project that
I manage. For our Veterans' Memorial Hall, we have the bottles of several
Last Man's Clubs on display, and when the time comes to open those bottles,
it will be in the gallery.
For more on this exhibit (or shameless self-promotion) see:
http://www.vets-hall.org/tributes/TributeDetail.asp?page=1&tribute_key=83
Bryan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Feltus, Pamela" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: A Question for the Alcoholic List
> There must be a way, beyond planning a museum-l happy hour at AAM that the
> alcoholic tendencies on this list can be put to good.
>
> At my last job, we were working on the Archives and a Museum for Brown
> Forman, which seems to either make or market about every type of booze
(the
> samples that tempted in the Collections!), as well as fine china and
crystal
> brands. By the time I left, it seemed the museum wasn't going to become a
> reality, so don't get too excited planning field trips.
>
> But in the process of processing we ran into an interesting problem:
> The alcohol. And by extension, all food products in collections.
Do
> you keep them intact or dispose of the contents and just keep the
packaging?
> There is the issue of alcohol, and some food, evaporating or emitting
scary
> gasses and hurting your collection. But the food itself might be important
> in the future. You might have the only sample of the original Old
Foresters
> KY Bourbon from 1870. Or a Twinkie. Or hardtack.
> As much as I wanted to be in the front of the disposal line, I
also
> remembered a wine bottle from ancient Rome being found and the information
> that was gleaned from studying the contents. As much as I can remember,
the
> balance we struck was sealed bottles were kept intact and opened ones
> emptied.
>
> So, from a varying degree of purists, anyone have theories on this type of
> thing?
>
> And in defense of diet coke as a mixer- if you get used to it, regular
coke
> will just disgust you. For a diet coke drinker, there's nothing wrong with
> jack and diet coke!
>
>
>
> Pamela Feltus
> Curator
> National Museum of American Jewish Military History
> 1811 R Street NW, Washington DC 20009
> 202-265-6280 x201
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