Please forgive my cross-posting!

We recently opened a core exhibition that will be on display for the next ten years.  In the coming months we will be rotating many of the 800+ original objects off exhibit, to extend the exhibitable life spans of those objects, on a regular schedule.  We'll turn pages of books, some original artifacts will get replaced with other original objects, and, for a number of paper artifacts, we'll substitute a very good facsimile of the original.

For the initial period of the exhibition, we have labels that clearly indicate when an artifact is a facsimile.  We would like to avoid the expense and staff time involved in printing entirely new labels every time an artifact is replaced with a facsimile, so we have been brainstorming different ways of transmitting the information to our visitors.  After much internal discussion, I have been asked to do some research on how other museums indicate to visitors that they are looking at facsimiles.  We are looking for an elegant-looking solution to this.

If you work in a museum that occasionally displays facsimiles, I hope you might have some options you could describe and share with me.

Thank you!

Claire


Claire Pingel
Chief Registrar and Associate Curator
National Museum of American Jewish History


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