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> This sounds like an excellent project. I do know locally of THE LATIMER
> QUILT & TEXTILE CENTER in Tillamook, OR, U.S.A. Through many years of
> development they now have a Textile Repository of 4200 sq.ft., hold
classes
> and have a research library and "The completion and restoration of quilts
> and textiles is a main focus of the center." I do not know if they have a
> website, though you might search in case it was developed recently. They
do
> have a comparitive collection to match things regionally and a dye garden.
> The address is:
> THE LATIMER QUILT & TEXTILE CENTER
> 2105 Wilson River Loop Road
> Tillamook, OR 97141
> Here is the phone #: Best of luck, Diane B. Rice,
> Curator North Lincoln County Historical Museum Lincoln
City,
> OR
> (503) 842-8622
>
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> From: swasti singh <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 4:42 AM
> Subject: RURAL TEXTILE MUSEUM IN INDIA
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>
> > Hello,
> > We would like to introduce ourselves as two design
> > graduates( industrial and textile from National
> > Institute of Design , Ahmedabad)doing a museum project
> > for SEWA- Self Employed Women's Association in
> > Ahmedabad, India.
> > The Museum is mainly to serve the textile craft center
> > located in one of the villages.
> > Museum will be of old embroidered textile pieces made
> > by the women of the local communities. They will be
> > the main users because the museum has to serve to
> > revive old embroidery practices, so that the improved
> > work fetches more income for them.
> > We are interested to know if you know of any such
> > rural museum in any other part of the world and their
> > success in it.
> > Can you suggest interactive sort of activities at the
> > museum site in order to make the museum beneficial for
> > the local communities.
> > We are also keen on knowing about certain factors like
> > current preservation techniques for textiles.
> > We will be glad to be suggested of books, websites and
> > experts regarding the above queries.
> > Thanking you,
> > Suranjana Sen, Swasti Singh
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A drawer in a table at Biltmore that was supposed to hve been stained with
blood from Napoleons' heart! (It was 40 years ago!)
At 08:59 AM 03/21/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>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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A visit to the American Museum of Natural History in NYC was a recurring field trip in my grammar
school days, and the big blue whale hanging from the ceiling was always talked about afterward. I
assume it's still hanging there?
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> 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?
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I remember that the exhibit on human development at the Boston Museum of
Science made a huge impression on me as a kid. I distinctly remember that
exhibit, as well as one in which you could see a feather falling in air
and in a vacuum (compared with a heavier object). Really neat!
--Suzanne
p.s. the weirdest museum exhibit piece I've ever seen was in a small
museum somewhere out west (I've forgotten exactly where). The museum had
a very odd assortment of things: coins, license plates, 1950s memorabilia,
archaeological artifacts, etc., as well as a number of mounted animals on
the walls. Along with the mounted heads was the stuffed rear end of a
whitetail deer, with plastic eyes put on either side of the tail, and a
mouth under the tail (so that the tail looked like a snout). The label?
"Werewolf".
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In a message dated 00-03-15 14:39:37 EST, Ross Weeks, Jr. wrote:
<< Time to change topics. What about Dr. Laura's views on sexuality? That's
a
spark for a whole new dialogue on the Old Testament vs. science. >>
At the risk of starting something myself, I want to say how grateful I am for
the restraint of Museum-Lers in that no one has thus far picked up the bait
on this! I think such a discussion would be inappropriate for a list devoted
to museum issues. Dr. Laura's views on sexuality concern issues of ethics
and morality. Although there are issues of ethics and morality implicit in
science--and science clearly has an impact on ethical issues--I think it's
generally a mistake to cast religion and science as adversaries. The
evolution-creationism debate was a valid discussion for this forum because it
stemmed from creationists' objections to the presentation of evidence for
evolution in museum exhibits. I think the chief objection to the creationist
view is that the Old Testament was never intended as a science textbook, and
religious non-creationists would argue that there is no fundamental conflict
between religion and science.
On the other hand, museum exhibitions on either sexuality or religion (or a
third possibility, combining the two) could provoke controversy and would be
interesting and valid topics for this list. Since museum-type exhibitions
traditionally center on objects or artifacts and their interpretation, I'm
not sure how you would logically include Dr. Laura in either an exhibition or
in a museum-oriented discussion. (Well, perhaps you could show the famous
nude photographs of her...)
David Haberstich
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That is of particular interest to me as I am Curator of the Logan Museum of
Anthropology and Beloit College Alumna. This is where the one of the
original preparators of the Blue Whale installation, Roy Chapman Andrews,
got his start.
Roy was a student here at Beloit, making his tuition payments by doing
taxidermy for local hunters. He graduated from Beloit and went to New York
where he started in the museum profession as a janitor at the AMNH. He
eventually worked his way up to Director of the Museum and Time's Man of
the year in 1930. He led a series of expeditions to the Gobi Desert in
Mongolia, wrote several articles for National Geographic and is
"unofficially" the real person upon whom the character if Indiana Jones was
based. Pick up a copy of *Dragon Bones and Dinosaur Eggs: A Photobiography
of Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews* by Ann Bausum (another Beloit Alum...)
published by National Geographic Society, $17.95. Also available on
Amazon.com!
At 04:45 PM 3/21/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>A visit to the American Museum of Natural History in NYC was a recurring
field trip in my grammar
>school days, and the big blue whale hanging from the ceiling was always
talked about afterward. I
>assume it's still hanging there?
>
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>Anne Fuhrman Douglas email: [log in to unmask]
>Registrar phone: 919-966-5736
>Ackland Art Museum fax: 919-966-1400
>The University of North Carolina
>Campus Box 3400
>Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3400
>U.S.A.
>
Karrie Porter Brace
Curator of Anthropology
Logan Museum=20
Beloit College
700 College Street
Beloit, Wisconsin 53511, USA
(608) 363-2119
http://www.beloit.edu/~museum/logan/loganhome.htm
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The Hayesville Opera House in Hayesville Ohio has a web site. The address is www.bright.net/~opera/hayesville
This site has brought additional visitors that normally would not be reached throught traditional methods.
"Williams, Monica" wrote:
> I am writing a series of articles about nonprofit use of the Internet. I am
> currently looking for examples of cultural organizations that are using
> their Web sites to increase membership and/or using e-commerce to sell
> tickets, memberships, or other items online. I would also like to interview
> staff members about their organization's experience (good or bad) in
> planning, developing, or fundraising for a Web site.
>
> If anyone is interested in sharing their experiences with other nonprofits
> and would like more information, please contact me directly.
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> Thanks!
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I like the Bird Hall at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles; they have
this weight machine that tells you how much your bones weigh as opposed to
your total weight; this way you can compare what a bird's bones weigh
against your human bones. I always make my husband stand on it when we
visit (after I've taken a turn, of course).
O
Olivia S. Anastasiadis, Curator
Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace
18001 Yorba Linda Boulevard
Yorba Linda, CA 92886
(714) 993-5075, ext. 224; Fax (714) 528-0544
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> 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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I was also going to ask a similar question but mine has to do with a
one month intensive certificate program at NYU. It focuses on arts
administration with courses in management, marketing, fundraising,
finanical management and the law. How useful or helpful would a pprogram
like this be for a college gradute, hoping to get her foot in the door in
the museum field in NYC?
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A two-headed cow and wishing well at the Dalton Gang Hideout
and Museum in Meade, Kansas. There is a fun 'escape' tunnel
(apparently the Daltons used it to evade the law) that leads
from an old prairie house to the gift shop. The tunnel,
which was then 'long, dark and mysterious', is now about a
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> > I would like to pose a question to the group. What is
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> > supper? The exhibit that people thirty years later
> remember?
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The Volume 16 (2), March 2000, issue of the half-yearly newsletter of the
ICOM Training of Personnel Committee (ICTOP): "it - Information on
Training" is now available on line, and can be read or down-loaded in PDF
(Adobe Acrobat) format on the ICTOP web site:
http://www.icom.org/ictop/
Topics covered include details of ICTOP's coming Annual Meeting: "Focus on
the Learner" at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 23rd
to 29th May 2000 - all interested professionals and educators welcome -
together with news of the Committee on Museum Professional Training
(COMPT) of the AAM, and of ICOM reforms.
Patrick Boylan
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I worked in a small rural historical house, were they kept everything
with the remotest connection to their area.
One local couple had been on vacation 1000 miles away and passed a
convoy of circus trucks that had overturned. So they proudly presently
the museum with a fairly large chunk of elephant skin, from an victim of
the crash.
As Collection Manager, I would have had it up for deaccessioning, but we
would have fought over what to do with it.
Lee Dillon, in Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:50:45 PST
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From: Beth-Anee Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Most Unforgetable Exhibit
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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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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 19:46:51 PST
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From: Jerrie Clarke <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Water Bottles on Tour
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We allow our patrons to carry their capped water bottles with them when
touring the Museum. We give those with open containers, or lidded soda pop
or latte cups, the option of finishing their drink before entering or
leaving them at the reception desk for retrieval later. They all seem to
understand and as far as I've heard, there have been no problems.
You have good front attendants, Martha. My problem is getting our
attendants to enforce the no food or drink rule.
Jerrie
Jerrie Clarke
Curator of Collections
Valdez Museum
http://www.alaska.net/~vldzmuse/index.html
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 20:50:56 PST
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From: Matthew Henning <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [Re: Most Unforgettable Exhibit]
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When talking about most unforgetable exhibit, it brought to mind a museum=
I
use to work at. It was a small museum with some intersting exhibits. =
However, they were so focused on exhibits from the city(a very small city=
)
that some of the artifacts were embarassing. Two of which I can remember=
were
a spoon and shoe sole that had been found under so an so's porch.
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