Our museum recently spent about $10,000 in February on new display cases with vitrines, or plex bonnets. We used a local company, River City Fixtures, here in Oklahoma. They work with large department stores across the country with a wide variety of needs, and I'm sure that your location is no problem for them. Having custom built cases worked very, very well for us. If your budget allows, I highly recommend it. We were able to match the new fixtures to original 1930 fixtures in our building and design them to meet our somewhat unique needs. Although we are not a large museum, we viewed it as a very good investment - and gave a bit of polish to our community image as well. Please feel free to contact me and I'd be happy to share our plans, budget, and contact information. Jamye Landis, Director Sand Springs Museum (918) 246-2509 [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Fahey [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 1:49 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Money for display case Hello Museum world, My director just informed me that we have some end of the fiscal year $. I now have $7,000 to spend on a display case or cases. I have built them before but I've never bought one. We are in the St. Louis area if that makes any difference. Could anyone give me a companies name that you have dealt with before and where happy with?? And if your thinking why not use the $ for materials and build a few of them, they will not let me do that. Thanks, Jerry Fahey Exhibits Designer The University Museum Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville ========================================================= 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).