MUSEUMS COUNCIL OF NEW YORK CITY
MUSEUM PROFESSIONALS WORKSHOP
MASHANTUCKET PEQUOT MUSEUM & RESEARCH CENTER
JULY 13, 1999.
The Museums Council of New York City--a membership association of
virtually all of the City's not for profit museums -- is planning a day-long
Museum Professionals Workshop at the recently opened Mashantucket Pequot
Museum & Research Center in Mashantucket, CT. The visit will be on Tuesday
July 13, 1999. We will be accompanied by Mike Hanke, the head of Design
Division, the exhibition designers for the Museum; and Susan Rodriguez and
Don Weinreich, who led the design of the building for Polshek Partners,
Architects. We will be greeted by Terry Bell, the Executive Director of the
MPMRC and her staff.
This will be an extraordinary opportunity to get a museum professional's
look at the "best exhibit of North American Indian materials in the world,
and among the very best anthropological museum exhibits anywhere." (William
Sturtevant, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History.)
Archaeology Magazine (November/December, 1998) hailed the Museum as "an
outstanding achievement in museum presentation and public education and sure
to set the standard for decades to come."
The 85,000 square feet (!) of permanent exhibitions feature some of the
richest, most imaginative, and most engaging interactive and immersive
exhibition technology I've ever encountered. The 300,000 square foot (!!)
building also houses a research center including a library with an ambitious
acquisitions program and a state-of-the-art archaeology lab. Taken
together, this is among the premier new museums of any kind in America. We
will get an exclusive insider's view of the exhibition and building
development from the key designers and Museum staff.
The Museum is very hospitably providing a bus, an afternoon meal, and
comfortable meeting space for our day. We anticipate a large turnout for
this event, so please register early. We will not set a "per-institution"
limit for registration, as we have in some of our previous popular events.
But we may come back to you with a limit (and a refund) as the event
approaches if we are over-booked. Registration info is below.
Please forward this notice to other members of your institution who might be
most interested in attending.
Best Regards,
Eric Siegel
Chairman
The Museums Council of New York City
DRAFT AGENDA
MUSEUM PROFESSIONALS WORKSHOP
MASHANTUCKET PEQUOT MUSEUM &
RESEARCH CENTER
JULY 13, 1999
8:00 AM - Bus leaves Metropolitan Museum of Art
11:30 AM - Arrival at MPM&RC
11:30-12:30 Greeting by Terry Bell, Director.
Orientation by MPMRC staff, Polshek Partners, and Design Division
1:00 - 4:30 PM - Exhibitions Tours
Breakout Sessions:
Archaeology Lab/Library Tour;
Architectural Tour;
Archaeology Site tour.
4:30 - 5:30 - Question/Answer session with MPM&RC staff, Exhibition Design
firm, and Architects
6:00 - Bus returns to Manhattan
REGISTRATION
The workshop costs $50 per person. Please mail the check to:
Amy Fischetti, Queens County Farm Museum, 73-50 Little Neck Parkway, Floral
Park, NY 11004. If your check will not arrive in time, call Amy at (718)
347-3276 x 13.
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