Unless you tried it already, .... an addition to the "usual suspects": Head of Collections and Exhibitions American Museum of the Moving Image, 35 Avenue at 36 Street, Astoria, NY 11106 tel: 718-784-4520 fax: 718-784-4681 They collect, preserve material culture of film, television, video. At 08:16 AM 3/29/00 -0500, you wrote: >We recently unearthed a large collection of mainly hand rendered film posters >from a defunct Pennsylvania art movie house. We're accessioning between half to >two thirds of the roughly 400 odd posters into our permanent collection, so we >now need to find an appropriate repository for the remainder. Most of the >posters that will be available date between 1945 and 1955 and include many >foreign film titles, including works by neo-realists like Rosellini. I should >also add that many are oversize: there are roughly 40-50 marquee sized posters >(4' x 9') along with several dozen narrow door panel posters (6' x 2') and more >conventionally sized posters. > >We've checked with the usual suspects: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and >Sciences, the Smithsonian and Library of Congress, UCLA Film Archive, etc., but >this particular genre seems beyond their collecting scope. Ideally, we'd like >to offer these posters to a museum that specializes in foreign film and would be >in a position to care for paper objects such as these. Any folks familiar with >European film museums? > >Would appreciate any and all suggestions. > >I can be contacted off list at: [log in to unmask] > >Curtis Miner >Curator of Popular Culture > >The State Museum of Pennsylvania >PO Box 1026 >Harrisburg, PA 17108 FAX (717) 783 4558 > >========================================================= >Important Subscriber Information: > >The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). > >If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). > > > ====================================== Klara Palotai Szeberenyi New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science Museum Studies Program 19 University Place, Suite 540, New York, NY 10003-4556 Telephone: (212) 998-8080 Fax: (212) 995-4185 Telex: 135128 NYU UR e-mail: [log in to unmask] Website: http:// www.nyu.edu/gsas/program/museum ======================== ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).