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Beth-Anee Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:50:45 PST
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The museum I worked at as a graduate student had a maze installed for
several months about 3 years ago.  We changed the configuration every few
weeks.  Kids and adults are still asking when we are going to have it back.
Especially around Halloween.  We decorated with cobwebs, blacklights and
costumed manequins. BIG Hit!

Beth-Anee Johnson

>I would like to pose a question to the group. What is your most unusual
>acquisition? What is the one thing the kids go home and talk about at
>supper? The exhibit that people thirty years later remember? Examples
>from my experience include "The Amputated Leg of General Sickles" at the
>old Army Medical Museum, or the "supposed" 19th Century witch in a lead
>sealed bottle mentioned last autumn on this list. The bizarre, the
>outre, the acquisition with a folk legend attached (Hope Diamond). Tell
>the list! The item need not be on exhibit. Things from the basement like
>Yale's collection of pickled brains. Same goes for works of art! Any
>good stories accompanying them. Likewise strange curatorial experiences.
>
>David Gerrick - Information Services
>Dayton Lab
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