>Pam Endzweig wrote:  Now we are considering whether it would be
wise to install a sprinkler system if and when we add on.

Sprinkle.  No question.  There have been enough fires in non-sprinklered
museum buildings to leave no doubt but that they are the wise thing to
install.  If you have any doubts at all, contact Jim Secfik, director of
the Louisiana State Museum (Cabildo fire in ??) or Brad Larson, director
of the Oshkosh Public Museum (museum fire in 1994).  I am sure that
either one of them will give you an earful.

Claudia Nicholson
Curator
Museum Collections Department
Minnesota Historical Society
345 Kellogg Blvd. W.
St. Paul, MN  55102-1906
      Tel: 612-297-7442
      FAX: 612-297-2967
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