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Pursuant to all of this (and I have been lurking on this instead of
speaking), another important aspect of publicity is your current audience
and ways of doing business.  For example, if the building is sparkling clean
(technically the job of maintenance) it promotes the idea that your museum
is well-organized and credible, and will come across when your visitors
speak about their experience to others. Then there are institutional
practices and policies that are good PR--such as our practice of allowing
our faculty a free booth at our art festival if they agree to have a stack
of our written materials at their booth and place a flag designating them as
IAC faculty--that really cost us nothing (well, actually it costs us a $20
entry fee from those faculty members but it's not reflected anywhere as an
expense). That's a huge publicity gain that cannot be handled by advertising
or PR alone.

We have a three-person marketing department with a defined three-year
strategy for advertising, promotions and publications  (the things that get
cash allocated to them) both for specific initiatives and general awareness,
plus we include at least one of our marketing team in everything we do--from
customer service meetings to exhibition planning meetings--because they are
trained in pointing out the things that are PR benefits as well as traps,
and helping us as an institution think through what message we are putting
across.  Sometimes messages cross--for example, Marketing wants to put out
an "all welcome anytime for free" message while Development wants to start
having paid-entry exhibition openings--that really muddle what we are all
about.  We try to catch these at an early stage, and frankly, if we had a
consultant who wasn't on staff all the time these things would slip by and
become promotional nightmares.

Julia Muney Moore
Director of Exhibitions and Artist Services
Indianapolis Art Center
820 E. 67th St.
Indianapolis, IN  46220
(317) 255-2464 x233
FAX (317) 254-0486
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I am not saying what is happening at the Texas Memorial Museum is right or wrong, just that you should be willing to stand up for your opinions. Or maybe, ANON ANON is afraid of burning his bridges in this tight museum community? Anon Anon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:Does anyone know if ethical violations are punishable by law? Someone ought to go after this guy. http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2003-02-21/pols_feature.html The Texas Memorial Museum turns back toward its future Only Natural February 21, 2003: In the belly of the ichthyosaur: Texas Memorial Museum Director Edward C. Theriot is at the center of a controversy over the museum's new direction. photo by Jana Birchum The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, planted dramatically at the north end of the Capitol, was built for people comfortable with the noisy bustle of a shopping mall, people who like their history served up supersized, consumers who pay top dollar expecting -- and getting -- spectacle in return. From its gigantic welcoming Lone Star to its vertigo-inducing IMAX theatre, it delivers history as theme park: a giant display case built to dazzle the crowds of out-of-town tourists. The old Texas Memorial Museum, opened in 1939 and now tucked away behind the Performing Arts Center on the north end of the UT campus, was built for people with a taste for calmer, less-crowded pleasures. "It was built with a Victorian ideal of knowledge acquired through quiet," said Museum Director Ed Theriot said. "But in recent months, TMM has become a much noisier place -- caught in the middle of a fussy yet principled debate over where the old museum is headed and a yearlong renovation to help it get there (see "A Pterosaur's Eye View," p.26). TMM is changing -- Theriot is seeing to it -- and there are some people who don't like the change. They especially don't like the way Theriot is handling it. One employee found the change so "ethically troubling" that she quit her job as manager of the museum's cultural collections. "I was dumbfounded," said Sally Baulch, when Theriot announced to the staff, in August 2002, that the museum would be getting rid of the cultural collections acquired since it opened in 1936 and shifting its focus exclusively to natural history. More than dumbfounded, Baulch said, she questioned the ethics of the decision, because neither the museum's staff nor the community were involved in it. "I'm a little doubtful about [Theriot] making the decision alone. That's what made me uncomfortable," said Baulch, who now works for Texas Parks and Wildlife. She said the UT board of regents, which also serves as the museum board, was not asked to vote on the decision, even though it involves dispersing or possibly "deaccessioning" (i.e., selling off) potentially valuable collections. "I think when we are talking about what happens to more than 40,000 objects," Baulch said. "It needs to go to the regents." The Wonders of the World The thousands of objects among the TMM cultural history holdings include items acquired from donations and field collections. They range from the mundane to the exotic, from lowbrow to high art, from practical to whimsical, from the historic to the merely old. There are kitschy objects made from animal horn, but there is also an impressive collection, of unknown worth, of pre-Columbian pottery; a collection of 1,300 firearms that includes not only a historic pair of beat-up pistols owned by Stephen F. Austin but also a German machine gun of no particular historic value; a teapot presented to Sam Houston in 1839 by the empress of China in honor of Texas independence; Moroccan rugs; more than 30 Navajo rugs from the late 19th and early 20th centuries; quilts, including Texas quilts that made up the museum's final cultural exhibition; clothing and costumes from antique hats to a 1960s swimsuit; lamps that burn everything from fat to kerosene; various military objects; boot-making and shoe-repair tools; 340 timepieces of various sorts; 877 U.S. patent models; tools; ranching equipment including 840 branding irons, 230 pairs of spurs, 60 saddles, and 120 barbed-wire samples; various anthropological materials from the U.S. and Canada; Mexican folk art, textiles, and ceramics; 1,600 Mexican folk toys; and a variety of items from South America, Africa, and Oceania. Baulch described the holdings as "really broad" with "worldwide" sources. She said that when Theriot made the decision to eliminate the cultural holdings, he said that "Texana materials would go to the university's Center for American History. The other stuff was not mentioned" -- another troubling aspect of the decision. Brent Lyles is another former TMM employee. He lost his job as director of Public Programs before Theriot announced the changes at the museum, but he has been vocal about his discomfort with Theriot's action. "I don't think Ed is doing anything illegal, but I think he is doing something unethical, and I think he knows it." Theriot doesn't back away from the fact that he made the decision to change TMM's direction. And he doesn't find it ethically troubling, either. "I get a little hot with this ethical argument," Theriot said. "Unethical would be putting things where they will never be seen. We cannot be the museum of the stuff the staff loves any more than we can be the museum of the stuff Ed Theriot thinks is cool. We will fail." Theriot said his decision had the support of Mary Ann Rankin, dean of the College of Natural Sciences, which operates TMM. University Provost Sheldon Ekland-Olson submitted the proposed change to the university's legal affairs office before signing off on it in August 2002. Theriot also defended the decision as being perfectly ethical within the museum community. True, TMM was first chartered as a natural history and cultural facility in 1935, but Theriot said it was made part of the university in 1959, with the stipulation that it be run "for the benefit of the University of Texas." He contends that his decision to eliminate the cultural collections is the best way for the museum to serve the university, especially under the wing of the College of Natural Sciences. Theriot sees no reason why his decision should have come as a surprise to anyone, and says it was no secret: "When I was hired there was a question during the [job] interview about changing the focus of the museum to natural history." That was more than five years ago. Out of the Attic Ed Theriot seems like the man his credentials and his job make him out to be: an academic, a biologist, a museum enthusiast. But he is also a museum director who has had to take a long, businesslike look at the museum he runs -- and the Bullock-influenced world he runs it in -- and make some businesslike decisions. "Thinking about it like a business -- not a for-profit business, but not a for-loss business, either -- if you try to be all things to all people all the time, you fail," Theriot said. "People think of us as the dinosaur museum." And he doesn't think that is a bad thing. But he thinks there is another way to see TMM, too. "We are a 60-year-old start-up business." And he doesn't think that is such a good thing. To be successful, he says, "We have to leverage our core resources against what the public wants. "Even with no Bullock, you could see what we needed to do," Theriot said. It is "largely a coincidence my decision was made after the Bullock opened." Treasures such as this pterosaur skeleton are what the museum does best, Theriot says; to keep everything, he says, would make TMM "the university's attic." photo by Jana Birchum "From early on we said we needed to find what would unify and drive the museum," he said, adding that that turned out to be natural history. "What appealed to people was that we were the authority, making discoveries and doing research." During the past three or four years, Theriot said he has assembled an advisory council, drawing heavily on people involved with business and marketing. "They suggested change," he said. And they suggested that the museum focus on its strength. One problem is limited resources. TMM operates on an annual budget of about $1 million, and only $167,000 is provided directly by a state budget line item for public programming. Permanent university funds and specific grants provide the bulk of the budget, supplemented a bit by sales from the museum shop. Indirect costs, including such things as utilities, are paid out of general UT revenues and just about double the basic budget -- so the actual cost of housing and preserving the collections comes to nearly $2 million. Theriot said that the museum has poured a sizeable portion of its resources into cultural history exhibits in recent years, at the expense of the bulk of the museum's holdings. "While doing a very nice job with things like quilts and with rearranging Native American artifacts, at the end of the day we still were stuck with a 1960s geology hall," he said. He believes that approach was doing the university and the museum a disservice. Theriot said the strength of TMM's core resources is clearly in the natural history collections, where between 5 and 6 million individual pieces make up 99.3% of the museum's holdings. "That other 0.7% represents the cultural history holdings and approximately 50% of that is what we would call 'Texana'" -- items directly related to Texas history. In addition, Theriot said, the natural history collection, which has built up through years of university-generated research and study, "grew organically"; the cultural history collection "grew more randomly," sometimes through study, often through donations. Thus, "the sum of it is more random than the natural history collection." Theriot cited the 1,300-piece firearms collection. "We had it inspected by a professional about three years ago. He said what we had was a nice assemblage, but not really a collection." Theriot described other parts of the cultural history collection as "piecemeal" and "fragmented" accumulations and said, "We are not the university's attic." However, the university's Center for American History "sees itself as being the university's attic," Theriot said. So, when he made the decision to eliminate the cultural history function of the museum, it was the first place he contacted. He knew they would want the Texana material. Getting and Spending Don Carleton directs the Center for American History. "This is something that should have happened years ago," he said. "It is a way of putting strength with strength. They [TMM] haven't been able to work with the material. We will be able to work with it more. It goes to the heart of taking resources and managing them." Carleton said his staff already has begun examining the materials, seeing just what is Texana and what is not. It is a process that will take as long as a year. Theriot said the history center will not be allowed simply to "cherry pick" the Texana collection and skim the good stuff. "They know they have to take it all or nothing." He said the time for dealing with the rest of the cultural history collections will be after decisions have been made about the Texana. But the fate of the remainder of the collections could be something entirely different: deaccession. That is what a museum does when it gets rid of holdings. And that is what seems to be on the minds of some of the people critical of Theriot. "What I would like to see happen is for the university and the public to see what a treasure they have and hire a manager to show it off," said former staffer Brent Lyles. But that is not a part of Theriot's plans. Lyles doesn't think much of Theriot's abilities as a museum director. "He is well-intentioned, but I don't think he is an effective manager," Lyles said. He also thinks Theriot has shirked ethical responsibility by not including more people in the decision to change the focus of TMM and get rid of the cultural history collections. Bausch has similar criticisms. "Usually decision is staff-driven. This is one person making the decision," she said. "The advisory council is not allowed to shape the direction of the museum." Bausch described Theriot's advisory council as nothing more than a "friends of the museum" group. She still sees the museum as hampered by a lack of planning. But she also admitted that if the staff instead of Theriot had made the decision on which way TMM should go -- nature or culture -- the decision probably would have been the same. "We would have made the decision a different way," Bausch said. "And we would have made an easier transition." While the Texana materials will be changing homes, all of it will remain property of the university. But what about the other collections? The pre-Columbian pottery? The Navajo blankets? The Moroccan rugs? All those firearms, costumes, and hats, the Eskimo jacket, the African spears? Is there a chance that any of that material actually will be sold? photo by Jana Birchum "Yes," Theriot said. Attempts will be made to place some of the collections with other museums in the state. But could any of the museum's cultural collections reach the open market? "In theory, yes," Theriot said, though he added that it is far too early in the process to consider it. "But we would have to consider donors' wishes, the educational value of certain items, what other museums are interested in buying and selling. And if we do sell anything, we can't just pocket the money or use it to cover shortfalls or capital investments. We could use it to buy other collections or in something like a research endowment." But he said that until decisions are made on the Texana, no other decisions will be made as to what to do with other parts of the collection. He said that is why he could not tell staffers precisely what will happen to all of the collections when he announced last August that the museum would focus on natural history. He said he still does not know. "The Texana is easy." Thinking of Dinosaurs The curtain officially came down on TMM's involvement with cultural history on Dec. 31, 2002. The final show featured Texas quilts and Native American cultures in the museum's fourth-floor gallery. Now that gallery and a large first-floor gallery are closed for renovation. A dinosaur skeleton hangs from the ceiling of the first-floor gallery, ghost-wrapped snugly in plastic as workers paint the walls. The galleries are not scheduled to reopen until next year, but by early January, only items pertaining to natural history were for sale in the museum gift shop. The first-floor gallery will house a brand new Hall of Geology and will be home to dinosaurs, fossil animals, rocks, and minerals, along with a working paleontologist. The fourth floor will feature the latest in computer-assisted visualization technology. Theriot said his advisory council told him "to make the museum more presentable," and that is what is happening. Specimens will be "artfully displayed" in freshly renovated spaces. But the spirit of the old TMM will live on. "We are going for an old look, but without the stodginess," Theriot said. Lynn Denton is director of the Bullock State History Museum. She worked for TMM for more than a decade and served as manager of the cultural history collections. "They have some tough decisions to make" to remain vital, she said. "These are important collections, and I have no indication that they don't see them as important collections." Of the museum's decision to rid itself of the cultural history collections, Denton said that "as long as this is handled thoughtfully, carefully and legally, I don't see a problem. This is a path TMM has been shaping for a long time, but that hasn't always been articulated clearly along the way." Some people see Ed Theriot as a no-way-but-my-way kind of guy, with a no-nonsense management style, but he is also undeniably a man with a vision and a mission for his little museum. Leaving others to debate ethics and committees, Theriot is striding toward the future across what he obviously sees as firm legal and ethical ground. He said he is working with his advisory council to "brand" the museum, in time for a full reopening in January of 2004. When Texans think of dinosaurs, fish, snakes, rocks, and fossils, Theriot wants them to think of the Texas Memorial Museum. 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I don't know about you.  But anyone who has the determination to post something like this on this forum should have the guts to not be anonymous.  From my reading of the article, it sounded like certain former employees (maybe ANON ANON, himself) were disgruntled for various reasons.  I am not saying what is happening at the Texas Memorial Museum is right or wrong, just that you should be willing to stand up for your opinions.  Or maybe, ANON ANON is afraid of burning his bridges in this tight museum community?

 Anon Anon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Does anyone know if ethical violations are punishable by law? Someone ought
to go after this guy.




http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2003-02-21/pols_feature.html


The Texas Memorial Museum turns back toward its future

Only Natural




February 21, 2003:


In the belly of the ichthyosaur: Texas Memorial Museum Director Edward C.
Theriot is at the center of a controversy over the museum's new direction.
photo by Jana Birchum

The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, planted dramatically at the
north end of the Capitol, was built for people comfortable with the noisy
bustle of a shopping mall, people who like their history served up
supersized, consumers who pay top dollar expecting -- and getting --
spectacle in return. From its gigantic welcoming Lone Star to its
vertigo-inducing IMAX theatre, it delivers history as theme park: a giant
display case built to dazzle the crowds of out-of-town tourists.

The old Texas Memorial Museum, opened in 1939 and now tucked away behind the
Performing Arts Center on the north end of the UT campus, was built for
people with a taste for calmer, less-crowded pleasures. "It was built with a
Victorian ideal of knowledge acquired through quiet," said Museum Director
Ed Theriot said. "But in recent months, TMM has become a much noisier place
-- caught in the middle of a fussy yet principled debate over where the old
museum is headed and a yearlong renovation to help it get there (see "A
Pterosaur's Eye View," p.26).

TMM is changing -- Theriot is seeing to it -- and there are some people who
don't like the change. They especially don't like the way Theriot is
handling it. One employee found the change so "ethically troubling" that she
quit her job as manager of the museum's cultural collections. "I was
dumbfounded," said Sally Baulch, when Theriot announced to the staff, in
August 2002, that the museum would be getting rid of the cultural
collections acquired since it opened in 1936 and shifting its focus
exclusively to natural history.

More than dumbfounded, Baulch said, she questioned the ethics of the
decision, because neither the museum's staff nor the community were involved
in it. "I'm a little doubtful about [Theriot] making the decision alone.
That's what made me uncomfortable," said Baulch, who now works for Texas
Parks and Wildlife. She said the UT board of regents, which also serves as
the museum board, was not asked to vote on the decision, even though it
involves dispersing or possibly "deaccessioning" (i.e., selling off)
potentially valuable collections. "I think when we are talking about what
happens to more than 40,000 objects," Baulch said. "It needs to go to the
regents."

The Wonders of the World The thousands of objects among the TMM cultural
history holdings include items acquired from donations and field
collections. They range from the mundane to the exotic, from lowbrow to high
art, from practical to whimsical, from the historic to the merely old. There
are kitschy objects made from animal horn, but there is also an impressive
collection, of unknown worth, of pre-Columbian pottery; a collection of
1,300 firearms that includes not only a historic pair of beat-up pistols
owned by Stephen F. Austin but also a German machine gun of no particular
historic value; a teapot presented to Sam Houston in 1839 by the empress of
China in honor of Texas independence; Moroccan rugs; more than 30 Navajo
rugs from the late 19th and early 20th centuries; quilts, including Texas
quilts that made up the museum's final cultural exhibition; clothing and
costumes from antique hats to a 1960s swimsuit; lamps that burn everything
from fat to kerosene; various military objects; boot-making and shoe-repair
tools; 340 timepieces of various sorts; 877 U.S. patent models; tools;
ranching equipment including 840 branding irons, 230 pairs of spurs, 60
saddles, and 120 barbed-wire samples; various anthropological materials from
the U.S. and Canada; Mexican folk art, textiles, and ceramics; 1,600 Mexican
folk toys; and a variety of items from South America, Africa, and Oceania.

Baulch described the holdings as "really broad" with "worldwide" sources.
She said that when Theriot made the decision to eliminate the cultural
holdings, he said that "Texana materials would go to the university's Center
for American History. The other stuff was not mentioned" -- another
troubling aspect of the decision.

Brent Lyles is another former TMM employee. He lost his job as director of
Public Programs before Theriot announced the changes at the museum, but he
has been vocal about his discomfort with Theriot's action. "I don't think Ed
is doing anything illegal, but I think he is doing something unethical, and
I think he knows it."

Theriot doesn't back away from the fact that he made the decision to change
TMM's direction. And he doesn't find it ethically troubling, either. "I get
a little hot with this ethical argument," Theriot said. "Unethical would be
putting things where they will never be seen. We cannot be the museum of the
stuff the staff loves any more than we can be the museum of the stuff Ed
Theriot thinks is cool. We will fail."

Theriot said his decision had the support of Mary Ann Rankin, dean of the
College of Natural Sciences, which operates TMM. University Provost Sheldon
Ekland-Olson submitted the proposed change to the university's legal affairs
office before signing off on it in August 2002. Theriot also defended the
decision as being perfectly ethical within the museum community. True, TMM
was first chartered as a natural history and cultural facility in 1935, but
Theriot said it was made part of the university in 1959, with the
stipulation that it be run "for the benefit of the University of Texas." He
contends that his decision to eliminate the cultural collections is the best
way for the museum to serve the university, especially under the wing of the
College of Natural Sciences.

Theriot sees no reason why his decision should have come as a surprise to
anyone, and says it was no secret: "When I was hired there was a question
during the [job] interview about changing the focus of the museum to natural
history." That was more than five years ago.

Out of the Attic Ed Theriot seems like the man his credentials and his job
make him out to be: an academic, a biologist, a museum enthusiast. But he is
also a museum director who has had to take a long, businesslike look at the
museum he runs -- and the Bullock-influenced world he runs it in -- and make
some businesslike decisions.

"Thinking about it like a business -- not a for-profit business, but not a
for-loss business, either -- if you try to be all things to all people all
the time, you fail," Theriot said. "People think of us as the dinosaur
museum." And he doesn't think that is a bad thing. But he thinks there is
another way to see TMM, too. "We are a 60-year-old start-up business." And
he doesn't think that is such a good thing. To be successful, he says, "We
have to leverage our core resources against what the public wants.

"Even with no Bullock, you could see what we needed to do," Theriot said. It
is "largely a coincidence my decision was made after the Bullock opened."


Treasures such as this pterosaur skeleton are what the museum does best,
Theriot says; to keep everything, he says, would make TMM "the university's
attic."
photo by Jana Birchum

"From early on we said we needed to find what would unify and drive the
museum," he said, adding that that turned out to be natural history. "What
appealed to people was that we were the authority, making discoveries and
doing research."

During the past three or four years, Theriot said he has assembled an
advisory council, drawing heavily on people involved with business and
marketing. "They suggested change," he said. And they suggested that the
museum focus on its strength.

One problem is limited resources. TMM operates on an annual budget of about
$1 million, and only $167,000 is provided directly by a state budget line
item for public programming. Permanent university funds and specific grants
provide the bulk of the budget, supplemented a bit by sales from the museum
shop. Indirect costs, including such things as utilities, are paid out of
general UT revenues and just about double the basic budget -- so the actual
cost of housing and preserving the collections comes to nearly $2 million.
Theriot said that the museum has poured a sizeable portion of its resources
into cultural history exhibits in recent years, at the expense of the bulk
of the museum's holdings. "While doing a very nice job with things like
quilts and with rearranging Native American artifacts, at the end of the day
we still were stuck with a 1960s geology hall," he said. He believes that
approach was doing the university and the museum a disservice.

Theriot said the strength of TMM's core resources is clearly in the natural
history collections, where between 5 and 6 million individual pieces make up
99.3% of the museum's holdings. "That other 0.7% represents the cultural
history holdings and approximately 50% of that is what we would call
'Texana'" -- items directly related to Texas history. In addition, Theriot
said, the natural history collection, which has built up through years of
university-generated research and study, "grew organically"; the cultural
history collection "grew more randomly," sometimes through study, often
through donations. Thus, "the sum of it is more random than the natural
history collection."

Theriot cited the 1,300-piece firearms collection. "We had it inspected by a
professional about three years ago. He said what we had was a nice
assemblage, but not really a collection." Theriot described other parts of
the cultural history collection as "piecemeal" and "fragmented"
accumulations and said, "We are not the university's attic."

However, the university's Center for American History "sees itself as being
the university's attic," Theriot said. So, when he made the decision to
eliminate the cultural history function of the museum, it was the first
place he contacted. He knew they would want the Texana material.

Getting and Spending Don Carleton directs the Center for American History.
"This is something that should have happened years ago," he said. "It is a
way of putting strength with strength. They [TMM] haven't been able to work
with the material. We will be able to work with it more. It goes to the
heart of taking resources and managing them." Carleton said his staff
already has begun examining the materials, seeing just what is Texana and
what is not. It is a process that will take as long as a year.

Theriot said the history center will not be allowed simply to "cherry pick"
the Texana collection and skim the good stuff. "They know they have to take
it all or nothing." He said the time for dealing with the rest of the
cultural history collections will be after decisions have been made about
the Texana. But the fate of the remainder of the collections could be
something entirely different: deaccession. That is what a museum does when
it gets rid of holdings. And that is what seems to be on the minds of some
of the people critical of Theriot.

"What I would like to see happen is for the university and the public to see
what a treasure they have and hire a manager to show it off," said former
staffer Brent Lyles. But that is not a part of Theriot's plans.

Lyles doesn't think much of Theriot's abilities as a museum director. "He is
well-intentioned, but I don't think he is an effective manager," Lyles said.
He also thinks Theriot has shirked ethical responsibility by not including
more people in the decision to change the focus of TMM and get rid of the
cultural history collections.

Bausch has similar criticisms. "Usually decision is staff-driven. This is
one person making the decision," she said. "The advisory council is not
allowed to shape the direction of the museum." Bausch described Theriot's
advisory council as nothing more than a "friends of the museum" group. She
still sees the museum as hampered by a lack of planning. But she also
admitted that if the staff instead of Theriot had made the decision on which
way TMM should go -- nature or culture -- the decision probably would have
been the same. "We would have made the decision a different way," Bausch
said. "And we would have made an easier transition."

While the Texana materials will be changing homes, all of it will remain
property of the university. But what about the other collections? The
pre-Columbian pottery? The Navajo blankets? The Moroccan rugs? All those
firearms, costumes, and hats, the Eskimo jacket, the African spears? Is
there a chance that any of that material actually will be sold?


photo by Jana Birchum

"Yes," Theriot said. Attempts will be made to place some of the collections
with other museums in the state. But could any of the museum's cultural
collections reach the open market? "In theory, yes," Theriot said, though he
added that it is far too early in the process to consider it. "But we would
have to consider donors' wishes, the educational value of certain items,
what other museums are interested in buying and selling. And if we do sell
anything, we can't just pocket the money or use it to cover shortfalls or
capital investments. We could use it to buy other collections or in
something like a research endowment."

But he said that until decisions are made on the Texana, no other decisions
will be made as to what to do with other parts of the collection. He said
that is why he could not tell staffers precisely what will happen to all of
the collections when he announced last August that the museum would focus on
natural history. He said he still does not know. "The Texana is easy."

Thinking of Dinosaurs The curtain officially came down on TMM's involvement
with cultural history on Dec. 31, 2002. The final show featured Texas quilts
and Native American cultures in the museum's fourth-floor gallery. Now that
gallery and a large first-floor gallery are closed for renovation. A
dinosaur skeleton hangs from the ceiling of the first-floor gallery,
ghost-wrapped snugly in plastic as workers paint the walls. The galleries
are not scheduled to reopen until next year, but by early January, only
items pertaining to natural history were for sale in the museum gift shop.

The first-floor gallery will house a brand new Hall of Geology and will be
home to dinosaurs, fossil animals, rocks, and minerals, along with a working
paleontologist. The fourth floor will feature the latest in
computer-assisted visualization technology.

Theriot said his advisory council told him "to make the museum more
presentable," and that is what is happening. Specimens will be "artfully
displayed" in freshly renovated spaces. But the spirit of the old TMM will
live on. "We are going for an old look, but without the stodginess," Theriot
said.

Lynn Denton is director of the Bullock State History Museum. She worked for
TMM for more than a decade and served as manager of the cultural history
collections. "They have some tough decisions to make" to remain vital, she
said. "These are important collections, and I have no indication that they
don't see them as important collections." Of the museum's decision to rid
itself of the cultural history collections, Denton said that "as long as
this is handled thoughtfully, carefully and legally, I don't see a problem.
This is a path TMM has been shaping for a long time, but that hasn't always
been articulated clearly along the way."

Some people see Ed Theriot as a no-way-but-my-way kind of guy, with a
no-nonsense management style, but he is also undeniably a man with a vision
and a mission for his little museum. Leaving others to debate ethics and
committees, Theriot is striding toward the future across what he obviously
sees as firm legal and ethical ground. He said he is working with his
advisory council to "brand" the museum, in time for a full reopening in
January of 2004. When Texans think of dinosaurs, fish, snakes, rocks, and
fossils, Theriot wants them to think of the Texas Memorial Museum. In the
increasingly competitive and sometimes flashy world of museums, he doesn't
want to be Brand X.




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Thanks for any contact information. Dawn Marie Warfle Congressional Cemetery Washington, DC ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 11:54:51 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Julia Logan <[log in to unmask]> Organization: The Charleston Museum Subject: Re: "Friends" groups MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gunston Hall, maybe ? ******************************* Julia Logan Assistant Archivist - The Charleston Museum 360 Meeting Street Charleston, SC 29403 (843) 722-2996 x244 [log in to unmask] ******************************** ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dawn Marie Warfle" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 11:52 AM Subject: "Friends" groups > Does anyone have any information that will lead me to a historic and/or > cultural site that is operated and managed by a separate entity such as a > parks department (local, state or national), but has a "friends" or > "association" group of volunteers who conduct programming, outreach > activities, and other visitor-focused programs? Thanks for any contact > information. > > Dawn Marie Warfle > Congressional Cemetery > Washington, DC > > ========================================================> 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). > ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:55:34 -0000 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Trowles - Peter <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Vintage Travel brochures MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Listers This is a bit of strange request I know but here's hoping someone can either help me directly, or can put me in touch with someone who can? One of our students is looking for a source of vintage travel brochures. In particular, she's looking at how the design and look of the travel brochure has changed over time and how this may have affected the marketability of the destination itself. And this is where it gets very specific. She's looking for brochures that featured/advertised San Francisco from the 1950s to the present day! Does anyone know of any museums or collectors she can get in touch with directly? Many thanks Peter Trowles Taffner Curator, Mackintosh Collection Glasgow School of Art 167 Renfrew Street GLASGOW G3 6RQ Scotland Tel: +141 353 4524 Fax: +141 353 4746 www.gsa.ac.uk ========================================================= 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). ========================================================================Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:18:28 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Chris Kolakowski <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: "Friends" groups MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dawn, You may want to check with Albany Rural Cemetery in Albany, NY - they have a freidns group, but I don't know how active it is. I don't have their number to hand but it is easily obtainable. Another really good Friends group is the Friends of Saratoga Battlefield in Stillwater, NY - Saratoga NHP relies on them for a vareity of special/outreach programs. Their website is http://www.albany.net/~battle/ Lastly, Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania NMP in Fredericksburg has a solid friends group that supplements park programs - the Friends of Fredericksburg Area Battlefields. Email them at [log in to unmask], and tell them I sent you. I hope this helps. Chris Kolakowski Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park (on sabbatical) MA Candidate, State University of New York at Albany Dawn Marie Warfle wrote: >Does anyone have any information that will lead me to a historic and/or >cultural site that is operated and managed by a separate entity such as a >parks department (local, state or national), but has a "friends" or >"association" group of volunteers who conduct programming, outreach >activities, and other visitor-focused programs? Thanks for any contact >information. > >Dawn Marie Warfle >Congressional Cemetery >Washington, DC > >========================================================>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). > > > ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 11:13:11 -0600 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Anon Anon <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: ethical violations at Austin museum-reply from the gutless coward Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed It's always nice to feel a bit attacked on a Monday morning, don't you think? For your information, the "Anon Anon" name was a quirk of signing up for this list some time ago. I wasn't sure what junky mail I'd be receiving, so I left it anonymous in the blanks. More to the present issue though, "yes" I prefer to remain anonymous because I'm afraid of repercussions among my peers. Does that make me a gutless coward? Sure, please send me to Hell, do not pass go. I work in an Austin museum though (I'll say that much), and this is a small town in some ways and if you knew the personalities involved you'd know that some of them are not above a little professional retribution. That sort of comes out in the article. I don't know all of the people involved very well, but some. Sally is a committed professional, and was treated very unfairly. Other staff at that museum have been fired, and it seems to go from bad to worse over there. The university has done nothing. This situation is very unfortunate, and the article doesn't make it clear that a director deaccessioning and selling off collections without public or curatorial input is really quite a serious offence in the museum world. I thought it was worth sharing with this list. As museum curators, you know how serious this is. No, I can't "go after him" because I'm not willing to risk that and I sincerely apologize for being flippant in my earlier message. But that doesn't mean that others shouldn't know what's going on and we can all learn from this. >From: Shoshanna Lansberg <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: ethical violations at Austin museum >Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 07:59:30 -0800 > > >I don't know about you. But anyone who has the determination to post >something like this on this forum should have the guts to not be anonymous. > From my reading of the article, it sounded like certain former employees >(maybe ANON ANON, himself) were disgruntled for various reasons. I am not >saying what is happening at the Texas Memorial Museum is right or wrong, >just that you should be willing to stand up for your opinions. Or maybe, >ANON ANON is afraid of burning his bridges in this tight museum community? > Anon Anon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:Does anyone know if ethical >violations are punishable by law? Someone ought >to go after this guy. > > > > >http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2003-02-21/pols_feature.html > > >The Texas Memorial Museum turns back toward its future > >Only Natural > > > > >February 21, 2003: > > >In the belly of the ichthyosaur: Texas Memorial Museum Director Edward C. >Theriot is at the center of a controversy over the museum's new direction. >photo by Jana Birchum > >The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, planted dramatically at the >north end of the Capitol, was built for people comfortable with the noisy >bustle of a shopping mall, people who like their history served up >supersized, consumers who pay top dollar expecting -- and getting -- >spectacle in return. From its gigantic welcoming Lone Star to its >vertigo-inducing IMAX theatre, it delivers history as theme park: a giant >display case built to dazzle the crowds of out-of-town tourists. > >The old Texas Memorial Museum, opened in 1939 and now tucked away behind >the >Performing Arts Center on the north end of the UT campus, was built for >people with a taste for calmer, less-crowded pleasures. "It was built with >a >Victorian ideal of knowledge acquired through quiet," said Museum Director >Ed Theriot said. "But in recent months, TMM has become a much noisier place >-- caught in the middle of a fussy yet principled debate over where the old >museum is headed and a yearlong renovation to help it get there (see "A >Pterosaur's Eye View," p.26). > >TMM is changing -- Theriot is seeing to it -- and there are some people who >don't like the change. They especially don't like the way Theriot is >handling it. One employee found the change so "ethically troubling" that >she >quit her job as manager of the museum's cultural collections. "I was >dumbfounded," said Sally Baulch, when Theriot announced to the staff, in >August 2002, that the museum would be getting rid of the cultural >collections acquired since it opened in 1936 and shifting its focus >exclusively to natural history. > >More than dumbfounded, Baulch said, she questioned the ethics of the >decision, because neither the museum's staff nor the community were >involved >in it. "I'm a little doubtful about [Theriot] making the decision alone. >That's what made me uncomfortable," said Baulch, who now works for Texas >Parks and Wildlife. She said the UT board of regents, which also serves as >the museum board, was not asked to vote on the decision, even though it >involves dispersing or possibly "deaccessioning" (i.e., selling off) >potentially valuable collections. "I think when we are talking about what >happens to more than 40,000 objects," Baulch said. "It needs to go to the >regents." > >The Wonders of the World The thousands of objects among the TMM cultural >history holdings include items acquired from donations and field >collections. They range from the mundane to the exotic, from lowbrow to >high >art, from practical to whimsical, from the historic to the merely old. >There >are kitschy objects made from animal horn, but there is also an impressive >collection, of unknown worth, of pre-Columbian pottery; a collection of >1,300 firearms that includes not only a historic pair of beat-up pistols >owned by Stephen F. Austin but also a German machine gun of no particular >historic value; a teapot presented to Sam Houston in 1839 by the empress of >China in honor of Texas independence; Moroccan rugs; more than 30 Navajo >rugs from the late 19th and early 20th centuries; quilts, including Texas >quilts that made up the museum's final cultural exhibition; clothing and >costumes from antique hats to a 1960s swimsuit; lamps that burn everything >from fat to kerosene; various military objects; boot-making and shoe-repair >tools; 340 timepieces of various sorts; 877 U.S. patent models; tools; >ranching equipment including 840 branding irons, 230 pairs of spurs, 60 >saddles, and 120 barbed-wire samples; various anthropological materials >from >the U.S. and Canada; Mexican folk art, textiles, and ceramics; 1,600 >Mexican >folk toys; and a variety of items from South America, Africa, and Oceania. > >Baulch described the holdings as "really broad" with "worldwide" sources. >She said that when Theriot made the decision to eliminate the cultural >holdings, he said that "Texana materials would go to the university's >Center >for American History. The other stuff was not mentioned" -- another >troubling aspect of the decision. > >Brent Lyles is another former TMM employee. He lost his job as director of >Public Programs before Theriot announced the changes at the museum, but he >has been vocal about his discomfort with Theriot's action. "I don't think >Ed >is doing anything illegal, but I think he is doing something unethical, and >I think he knows it." > >Theriot doesn't back away from the fact that he made the decision to change >TMM's direction. And he doesn't find it ethically troubling, either. "I get >a little hot with this ethical argument," Theriot said. "Unethical would be >putting things where they will never be seen. We cannot be the museum of >the >stuff the staff loves any more than we can be the museum of the stuff Ed >Theriot thinks is cool. We will fail." > >Theriot said his decision had the support of Mary Ann Rankin, dean of the >College of Natural Sciences, which operates TMM. University Provost Sheldon >Ekland-Olson submitted the proposed change to the university's legal >affairs >office before signing off on it in August 2002. Theriot also defended the >decision as being perfectly ethical within the museum community. True, TMM >was first chartered as a natural history and cultural facility in 1935, but >Theriot said it was made part of the university in 1959, with the >stipulation that it be run "for the benefit of the University of Texas." He >contends that his decision to eliminate the cultural collections is the >best >way for the museum to serve the university, especially under the wing of >the >College of Natural Sciences. > >Theriot sees no reason why his decision should have come as a surprise to >anyone, and says it was no secret: "When I was hired there was a question >during the [job] interview about changing the focus of the museum to >natural >history." That was more than five years ago. > >Out of the Attic Ed Theriot seems like the man his credentials and his job >make him out to be: an academic, a biologist, a museum enthusiast. But he >is >also a museum director who has had to take a long, businesslike look at the >museum he runs -- and the Bullock-influenced world he runs it in -- and >make >some businesslike decisions. > >"Thinking about it like a business -- not a for-profit business, but not a >for-loss business, either -- if you try to be all things to all people all >the time, you fail," Theriot said. "People think of us as the dinosaur >museum." And he doesn't think that is a bad thing. But he thinks there is >another way to see TMM, too. "We are a 60-year-old start-up business." And >he doesn't think that is such a good thing. To be successful, he says, "We >have to leverage our core resources against what the public wants. > >"Even with no Bullock, you could see what we needed to do," Theriot said. >It >is "largely a coincidence my decision was made after the Bullock opened." > > >Treasures such as this pterosaur skeleton are what the museum does best, >Theriot says; to keep everything, he says, would make TMM "the university's >attic." >photo by Jana Birchum > >"From early on we said we needed to find what would unify and drive the >museum," he said, adding that that turned out to be natural history. "What >appealed to people was that we were the authority, making discoveries and >doing research." > >During the past three or four years, Theriot said he has assembled an >advisory council, drawing heavily on people involved with business and >marketing. "They suggested change," he said. And they suggested that the >museum focus on its strength. > >One problem is limited resources. TMM operates on an annual budget of about >$1 million, and only $167,000 is provided directly by a state budget line >item for public programming. Permanent university funds and specific grants >provide the bulk of the budget, supplemented a bit by sales from the museum >shop. Indirect costs, including such things as utilities, are paid out of >general UT revenues and just about double the basic budget -- so the actual >cost of housing and preserving the collections comes to nearly $2 million. >Theriot said that the museum has poured a sizeable portion of its resources >into cultural history exhibits in recent years, at the expense of the bulk >of the museum's holdings. "While doing a very nice job with things like >quilts and with rearranging Native American artifacts, at the end of the >day >we still were stuck with a 1960s geology hall," he said. He believes that >approach was doing the university and the museum a disservice. > >Theriot said the strength of TMM's core resources is clearly in the natural >history collections, where between 5 and 6 million individual pieces make >up >99.3% of the museum's holdings. "That other 0.7% represents the cultural >history holdings and approximately 50% of that is what we would call >'Texana'" -- items directly related to Texas history. In addition, Theriot >said, the natural history collection, which has built up through years of >university-generated research and study, "grew organically"; the cultural >history collection "grew more randomly," sometimes through study, often >through donations. Thus, "the sum of it is more random than the natural >history collection." > >Theriot cited the 1,300-piece firearms collection. "We had it inspected by >a >professional about three years ago. He said what we had was a nice >assemblage, but not really a collection." Theriot described other parts of >the cultural history collection as "piecemeal" and "fragmented" >accumulations and said, "We are not the university's attic." > >However, the university's Center for American History "sees itself as being >the university's attic," Theriot said. So, when he made the decision to >eliminate the cultural history function of the museum, it was the first >place he contacted. He knew they would want the Texana material. > >Getting and Spending Don Carleton directs the Center for American History. >"This is something that should have happened years ago," he said. "It is a >way of putting strength with strength. They [TMM] haven't been able to work >with the material. We will be able to work with it more. It goes to the >heart of taking resources and managing them." Carleton said his staff >already has begun examining the materials, seeing just what is Texana and >what is not. It is a process that will take as long as a year. > >Theriot said the history center will not be allowed simply to "cherry pick" >the Texana collection and skim the good stuff. "They know they have to take >it all or nothing." He said the time for dealing with the rest of the >cultural history collections will be after decisions have been made about >the Texana. But the fate of the remainder of the collections could be >something entirely different: deaccession. That is what a museum does when >it gets rid of holdings. And that is what seems to be on the minds of some >of the people critical of Theriot. > >"What I would like to see happen is for the university and the public to >see >what a treasure they have and hire a manager to show it off," said former >staffer Brent Lyles. But that is not a part of Theriot's plans. > >Lyles doesn't think much of Theriot's abilities as a museum director. "He >is >well-intentioned, but I don't think he is an effective manager," Lyles >said. >He also thinks Theriot has shirked ethical responsibility by not including >more people in the decision to change the focus of TMM and get rid of the >cultural history collections. > >Bausch has similar criticisms. "Usually decision is staff-driven. This is >one person making the decision," she said. "The advisory council is not >allowed to shape the direction of the museum." Bausch described Theriot's >advisory council as nothing more than a "friends of the museum" group. She >still sees the museum as hampered by a lack of planning. But she also >admitted that if the staff instead of Theriot had made the decision on >which >way TMM should go -- nature or culture -- the decision probably would have >been the same. "We would have made the decision a different way," Bausch >said. "And we would have made an easier transition." > >While the Texana materials will be changing homes, all of it will remain >property of the university. But what about the other collections? The >pre-Columbian pottery? The Navajo blankets? The Moroccan rugs? All those >firearms, costumes, and hats, the Eskimo jacket, the African spears? Is >there a chance that any of that material actually will be sold? > > >photo by Jana Birchum > >"Yes," Theriot said. Attempts will be made to place some of the collections >with other museums in the state. But could any of the museum's cultural >collections reach the open market? "In theory, yes," Theriot said, though >he >added that it is far too early in the process to consider it. "But we would >have to consider donors' wishes, the educational value of certain items, >what other museums are interested in buying and selling. And if we do sell >anything, we can't just pocket the money or use it to cover shortfalls or >capital investments. We could use it to buy other collections or in >something like a research endowment." > >But he said that until decisions are made on the Texana, no other decisions >will be made as to what to do with other parts of the collection. He said >that is why he could not tell staffers precisely what will happen to all of >the collections when he announced last August that the museum would focus >on >natural history. He said he still does not know. "The Texana is easy." > >Thinking of Dinosaurs The curtain officially came down on TMM's involvement >with cultural history on Dec. 31, 2002. The final show featured Texas >quilts >and Native American cultures in the museum's fourth-floor gallery. Now that >gallery and a large first-floor gallery are closed for renovation. A >dinosaur skeleton hangs from the ceiling of the first-floor gallery, >ghost-wrapped snugly in plastic as workers paint the walls. The galleries >are not scheduled to reopen until next year, but by early January, only >items pertaining to natural history were for sale in the museum gift shop. > >The first-floor gallery will house a brand new Hall of Geology and will be >home to dinosaurs, fossil animals, rocks, and minerals, along with a >working >paleontologist. The fourth floor will feature the latest in >computer-assisted visualization technology. > >Theriot said his advisory council told him "to make the museum more >presentable," and that is what is happening. Specimens will be "artfully >displayed" in freshly renovated spaces. But the spirit of the old TMM will >live on. "We are going for an old look, but without the stodginess," >Theriot >said. > >Lynn Denton is director of the Bullock State History Museum. She worked for >TMM for more than a decade and served as manager of the cultural history >collections. "They have some tough decisions to make" to remain vital, she >said. "These are important collections, and I have no indication that they >don't see them as important collections." Of the museum's decision to rid >itself of the cultural history collections, Denton said that "as long as >this is handled thoughtfully, carefully and legally, I don't see a problem. >This is a path TMM has been shaping for a long time, but that hasn't always >been articulated clearly along the way." > >Some people see Ed Theriot as a no-way-but-my-way kind of guy, with a >no-nonsense management style, but he is also undeniably a man with a vision >and a mission for his little museum. Leaving others to debate ethics and >committees, Theriot is striding toward the future across what he obviously >sees as firm legal and ethical ground. He said he is working with his >advisory council to "brand" the museum, in time for a full reopening in >January of 2004. When Texans think of dinosaurs, fish, snakes, rocks, and >fossils, Theriot wants them to think of the Texas Memorial Museum. In the >increasingly competitive and sometimes flashy world of museums, he doesn't >want to be Brand X. > > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* >http://join.msn.com/?pagežatures/junkmail > >========================================================>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] . 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The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). ========================================================================Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:21:51 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Rebecca Zisch <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Vintage Travel brochures MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I would try the Oakland Museum of California. If they don't have any in their collection, the curators there should be familiar with other local collections. http://www.museumca.org/ For travel brochures in general try the Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. I hope this helps. Rebecca Zisch Development and External Affairs Director Lied Discovery Children's Museum Las Vegas, Nevada ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:34:05 -0800 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: "Cheryl B. Kessler" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Vintage Travel brochures In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii The California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento may be a good resource (at least for rail travel). At least one of their permanent exhibits has examples of rail brochures through the years. They have a good library collection and friendly librarians, although your student might want to query the museum curator directly. Their website is www.csrmf.org/. Another museum resource to investigate is the American Advertising Museum, which is in Seattle, Washington (I think). Their website is www.admuseum.org/. The American Automobile Association might be a good source (www.aaa.com/). They publish a quarterly magazine and are sure to have some resources available. Your student might also want to contact some travel associations/organizations with local chapters in San Francisco. Larger advertising agencies, especially those that have travel clients, should be considered as well. If I remember correctly from a short stint in the advertising world, there is/was something called the Red Book Directory that listed major (and probably some minor) ad agenices and their clients. An agency in the UK is bound to have a copy, or know where to find one (a university library may also have this resource). Good luck and happy researching! Cheryl Kessler --- Trowles - Peter <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear Listers > > This is a bit of strange request I know but here's hoping someone can either help > me directly, or can put me in touch with someone who can? > > One of our students is looking for a source of vintage travel brochures. In > particular, she's looking at how the design and look of the travel brochure has > changed over time and how this may have affected the marketability of the > destination itself. > > And this is where it gets very specific. She's looking for brochures that > featured/advertised San Francisco from the 1950s to the present day! > > Does anyone know of any museums or collectors she can get in touch with directly? > > Many thanks > > > Peter Trowles > Taffner Curator, Mackintosh Collection > Glasgow School of Art > 167 Renfrew Street > GLASGOW > G3 6RQ > Scotland > > Tel: +141 353 4524 > Fax: +141 353 4746 > > www.gsa.ac.uk > > > ========================================================> 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). __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:36:43 -0600 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: waterford museum <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: "Friends" groups MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Grant's Cottage in Upstate NY is exactly what you have described. The museum/building is owned by State Parks but it is essentially run by the friends group. Good Luck. Grant Cottage State Historic Site (518) 587-8277 www.nysparks.state.ny.us ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dawn Marie Warfle" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 10:52 AM Subject: "Friends" groups > Does anyone have any information that will lead me to a historic and/or > cultural site that is operated and managed by a separate entity such as a > parks department (local, state or national), but has a "friends" or > "association" group of volunteers who conduct programming, outreach > activities, and other visitor-focused programs? Thanks for any contact > information. > > Dawn Marie Warfle > Congressional Cemetery > Washington, DC > > ========================================================> 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] . 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The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). ========================================================================Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:40:35 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: "Scott D. Peters" <[log in to unmask]> Organization: Ocean County Historical Society Subject: Re: "Friends" groups MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Try Historic Allaire Village in New Jersey. Allaire Village Inc., is the friends group which is licensed by the State of New Jersey to operate the historic site within Allaire State Park. www.allairevillage.org http://www.state.nj.us/dep/forestry/parks/allaire.htm Scott D. Peters Research Director/Archivist Ocean County Historical Society 26 Hadley Ave., P.O. Box 2191 Toms River, NJ 08754-2191 (732) 341-1880 [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] "Telling the Stories of Ocean County" Historically Speaking ALHFAM -FPIPN vice-chair for trivia, errata and miscellany [log in to unmask] "The ordinary distinctions in society are often vague, and imply no just pre-eminence: rank and titles are adventitious things and instead of designating merit or virtue, are frequently the baubles of imbecility, or the sparkling decorations of meretricious pageantry" William Griffith, on behalf, and by order of the New-Jersey Society for promoting the gradual Abolition of Slavery, Twelfth Month (December) 20th, 1803 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dawn Marie Warfle" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 11:52 AM Subject: "Friends" groups > Does anyone have any information that will lead me to a historic and/or > cultural site that is operated and managed by a separate entity such as a > parks department (local, state or national), but has a "friends" or > "association" group of volunteers who conduct programming, outreach > activities, and other visitor-focused programs? Thanks for any contact > information. > > Dawn Marie Warfle > Congressional Cemetery > Washington, DC > ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:12:33 EST Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Janice Artemel <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: "Friends" groups MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_11d.1f17c251.2b8bc8a1_boundary" --part1_11d.1f17c251.2b8bc8a1_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit There are many in the Washington, DC metro area including: Piscataway Park, Maryland -- National Park Service site, with cooperative agreement with the Accokeek Foundation (see www.accokeek.org) for programming, site management, etc. Claude Moore Colonial Farm at Turkey Run -- National Park Service site within George Washington Parkway, with programming and management by this nonprofit organization. (www.1771.org) Fairfax County Park Authority (Virginia) -- several of the county-owned parks depend heavily upon Friends groups for interpretive programming and events. One example is Huntley Meadows, and another is the Colvin Run Mill site (see www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks) ========================================================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). --part1_11d.1f17c251.2b8bc8a1_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable There are many in the Washington, DC metro area including:

Piscataway Park, Maryland -- National Park Service site, with cooperative agreement with the Accokeek Foundation (see www.accokeek.org) for programming, site management, etc.

Claude Moore Colonial Farm at Turkey Run -- National Park Service site within George Washington Parkway, with programming and management by this nonprofit organization.  (www.1771.org)

Fairfax County Park Authority (Virginia)  -- several of the county-owned parks depend heavily upon Friends groups for interpretive programming and events.  One example is Huntley Meadows, and another is the Colvin Run Mill site (see www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks) ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information:

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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). --part1_11d.1f17c251.2b8bc8a1_boundary-- ========================================================================Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 11:35:36 -0800 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Keni Sturgeon <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: fund raising raffles MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Jessica, The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum has done this in the past. I don't have any contact info with me, but their web site (www.cbmm.org) has their main phone number. Try asking for John Miller (director of development). Hope this helps. Keni Sturgeon Director Jensen Arctic Museum ----- Original Message ----- From: Jessica Ruskin <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sunday, February 23, 2003 1:30 pm Subject: fund raising raffles > Dear list members: > In this time of economic difficulty, we are looking for creative ways > to raise funds for our small science center. One of the things we are > investigating is the possibility of raffling off a donated new car. > Has anyone at a museum ever done this before? If so, was it > successful? And what was involved? Any information at all would be > greatly appreciated. > > Thank you, > Jessica Ruskin > Program Director > -- > Explorit Science Center > 3141 5th Street > P.O. Box 1288 > Davis, CA 95617 > (530) 756-0191 > FAX (530) 756-1227 > http://www.explorit.org > > ========================================================> 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). > ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:35:47 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Peter Gale <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Large Scale Multimedia-Based Exhibitions I would like to know if anyone could identify recent examples, in North America and elsewhere, of large scale, exhibition-like presentations at a museum or related type of cultural institution that were created largely, if not entirely, using a variety of multimedia technologies, audio-visual components, media environments and experiences, etc., possibly along with some printed texts and cultural objects. Such presentations might have been designed to introduce a museum's range of collections; to complement a traditional, object-based exhibit; or to serve as a stand-alone display intended to engage visitors in some sort of thematic concern or subject of relevance to the museum or cultural organization and their publics. It might be housed in a separate facility and even be independent of any museum, although museum-like in its intentions. This sort of presentation would utilize a diverse range of current media technologies and be designed to engage and inform visitors much like an object-based exhibit, but through the latest technologies. I am familiar with small-scale examples of this sort of presentation, usually within the context of a traditional exhibit, but am wondering about their existence as larger-scaled, independent presentations. I would also like to know if there are any examples that are currently on view anywhere. As well, I'd be curious to know the names of firms that are known to specialize in this sort of presentation. Thank you in advance for your suggestions. ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:40:49 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: "Nicholas P. Ciotola" <[log in to unmask]> Organization: Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania Subject: Re: Large Scale Multimedia-Based Exhibitions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Johnstown Heritage Discovery Center in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, opened in 2001. It relies almost exclusively on multimedia exhibitions to narrate immigration/ethnic history in this west-central Pennsylvania steel town. Visit their site at www.jaha.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Gale" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 2:35 PM Subject: Large Scale Multimedia-Based Exhibitions > I would like to know if anyone could identify recent examples, in North America and elsewhere, of large scale, exhibition-like presentations at a > museum or related type of cultural institution that were created largely, if not entirely, using a variety of multimedia technologies, audio-visual > components, media environments and experiences, etc., possibly along with some printed texts and cultural objects. Such presentations might > have been designed to introduce a museum's range of collections; to complement a traditional, object-based exhibit; or to serve as a > stand-alone display intended to engage visitors in some sort of thematic concern or subject of relevance to the museum or cultural organization > and their publics. It might be housed in a separate facility and even be independent of any museum, although museum-like in its intentions. > > This sort of presentation would utilize a diverse range of current media technologies and be designed to engage and inform visitors much like an > object-based exhibit, but through the latest technologies. I am familiar with small-scale examples of this sort of presentation, usually within the > context of a traditional exhibit, but am wondering about their existence as larger-scaled, independent presentations. I would also like to know if > there are any examples that are currently on view anywhere. > > As well, I'd be curious to know the names of firms that are known to specialize in this sort of presentation. > > Thank you in advance for your suggestions. > > ========================================================> 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). > ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 20:47:23 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Ware Petznick <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: "Friends" groups MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0006_01C2DC45.EEB9BFC0" ------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C2DC45.EEB9BFC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Historic Rock Castle in Hendersonville, TN has an Executive Director and is run by a volunteer group known as the Friends of Rock Castle. I believe the site is still owned by the State of Tennessee. Tom Varenchick is the Director, I suggest that you contact him! http://www.historicrockcastle.cjb.net/ Best of luck. Ware Petznick 54 S. Russell Street Boston, MA 02114 617 742 1809 [log in to unmask] http://www.geocities.com/staforlife/museumresume.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dawn Marie Warfle" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 11:52 AM Subject: "Friends" groups > Does anyone have any information that will lead me to a historic and/or > cultural site that is operated and managed by a separate entity such as a > parks department (local, state or national), but has a "friends" or > "association" group of volunteers who conduct programming, outreach > activities, and other visitor-focused programs? Thanks for any contact > information. > > Dawn Marie Warfle > Congressional Cemetery > Washington, DC > > ========================================================= > Important Subscriber Information: > > The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . 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Historic Rock Castle in Hendersonville, TN has an Executive Director and is run by a volunteer group known as the Friends of Rock Castle. I believe the site is still owned by the State of Tennessee. Tom Varenchick is the Director, I suggest that you contact him!

 

http://www.historicrockcastle.cjb.net/

 

Best of luck.

 

Ware Petznick

54 S. Russell Street

Boston, MA 02114

617 742 1809

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> Does anyone have any information that will lead me to a historic and/or
> cultural site that is operated and managed by a separate entity such as a
> parks department (local, state or national), but has a "friends" or
> "association" group of volunteers who conduct programming, outreach
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> information.
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> Dawn Marie Warfle
> Congressional Cemetery
> Washington, DC
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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). ------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C2DC45.EEB9BFC0-- ========================================================================Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 21:04:29 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Dean Hollander <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Museum Professionals Newsletter Hi - I am creating an online newsletter for Museum professionals that covers website development, online fundraising, event registration and education. I am looking for articles relating to those areas by professionals currently working at museums. If you have any such articles and would like to share them with other professionals please contact me. Alternatively, if you are interested in writing an article for the newsletter please contact me. Subscription to the newsletter is free and we anticipate publishing it on a monthly or quarterly basis. You can reach me at [log in to unmask] Thank you, Dean ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 20:12:08 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: James Schulte <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: "Friends" groups MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit dawn i work for a state site which has a Friends groups which does much of the programming, How can i help you? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dawn Marie Warfle" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 11:52 AM Subject: "Friends" groups > Does anyone have any information that will lead me to a historic and/or > cultural site that is operated and managed by a separate entity such as a > parks department (local, state or national), but has a "friends" or > "association" group of volunteers who conduct programming, outreach > activities, and other visitor-focused programs? Thanks for any contact > information. > > Dawn Marie Warfle > Congressional Cemetery > Washington, DC > > ========================================================> 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). > ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 22:32:52 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Nicholas Burlakoff <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: "Friends" groups In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Take it from one who has been there, if there is a way to avoid having a "friends group"-avoid it. The political angle/weight that such a group adds to an institution is not worth the resources they bring. Either form a good volunteer program that is integrated with general staff (if you need volunteers) or add an "advisory board" if you need names. If you need external funding do it through giving circles. But, whatever you do try to avoid forming a "friends" group-not worth the pain. Nicholas Burlakoff -----Original Message----- From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Dawn Marie Warfle Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 11:52 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: "Friends" groups Does anyone have any information that will lead me to a historic and/or cultural site that is operated and managed by a separate entity such as a parks department (local, state or national), but has a "friends" or "association" group of volunteers who conduct programming, outreach activities, and other visitor-focused programs? Thanks for any contact information. Dawn Marie Warfle Congressional Cemetery Washington, DC ========================================================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). ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:34:06 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: suzan reed <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Vintage Travel brochures MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You might start by looking at the Archives for graphic design awards and firms from that time period. Check with your local Artists's Guild Best Suzan Reed Graphic Art Designer/Director Museum Ed. Ed Tech Trowles - Peter wrote: >Dear Listers > >This is a bit of strange request I know but here's hoping someone can either help me directly, or can put me in touch with someone who can? > >One of our students is looking for a source of vintage travel brochures. In particular, she's looking at how the design and look of the travel brochure has changed over time and how this may have affected the marketability of the destination itself. > >And this is where it gets very specific. She's looking for brochures that featured/advertised San Francisco from the 1950s to the present day! > >Does anyone know of any museums or collectors she can get in touch with directly? > >Many thanks > > >Peter Trowles >Taffner Curator, Mackintosh Collection >Glasgow School of Art >167 Renfrew Street >GLASGOW >G3 6RQ >Scotland > >Tel: +141 353 4524 >Fax: +141 353 4746 > >www.gsa.ac.uk > > >========================================================>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] . 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Kirby" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Large Scale Multimedia-Based Exhibitions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Women's Museum in Dallas Texas. It is affliliated with the Smithsonian in ways that I am not clear about. One of the complaints by some of the reviewer's when it first opened is that it did not have "exhibit" except in a very limited way. It opens with a multi-screen presentation about the changing roles of women, after one has passed a three-story high "quilt" of a multiscreen projection. When I was there the squares of the quilt either had the WM logo of the Women's Museum or different covers of Texas Monthly magazine with women (Gov. Ann Richards, Cissy Spacik, Drs. Astronauts, etc). All the "squares" are rear screen or liquid crystal projections. There is a movie theatre which I did not have time to enter, a 7 minute film at the endd called NEXT with images of faces of all races, all ages, all sexes, offering the viewer to create the "next" century of exhibits, and closes with a computer with which you can record your reaction to the exhibits. There is one area near the opening with tryptichs of women in differnent fields which includes items on loan from the Smithsonian or other museums, but in another section, you had to interact with the topics on a touch screen to find out more about that section. I did not go to the third floor displays. (No time left that day.) The building formerly housed state fair exhibits and later was the home of a theatre set designer. Fascinating way they used space to allow handicap access and have a continuous flow through the building. Very hi-tech. Investigate it. Mary Kirby Historic Upshur Museum On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:40:49 -0500 "Nicholas P. Ciotola" <[log in to unmask]> writes: > The Johnstown Heritage Discovery Center in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, > opened > in 2001. It relies almost exclusively on multimedia exhibitions to > narrate > immigration/ethnic history in this west-central Pennsylvania steel > town. > > Visit their site at www.jaha.org > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter Gale" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 2:35 PM > Subject: Large Scale Multimedia-Based Exhibitions > > > > I would like to know if anyone could identify recent examples, in > North > America and elsewhere, of large scale, exhibition-like presentations > at a > > museum or related type of cultural institution that were created > largely, > if not entirely, using a variety of multimedia technologies, > audio-visual > > components, media environments and experiences, etc., possibly > along with > some printed texts and cultural objects. Such presentations might > > have been designed to introduce a museum's range of collections; > to > complement a traditional, object-based exhibit; or to serve as a > > stand-alone display intended to engage visitors in some sort of > thematic > concern or subject of relevance to the museum or cultural > organization > > and their publics. It might be housed in a separate facility and > even be > independent of any museum, although museum-like in its intentions. > > > > This sort of presentation would utilize a diverse range of current > media > technologies and be designed to engage and inform visitors much like > an > > object-based exhibit, but through the latest technologies. I am > familiar > with small-scale examples of this sort of presentation, usually > within the > > context of a traditional exhibit, but am wondering about their > existence > as larger-scaled, independent presentations. I would also like to > know if > > there are any examples that are currently on view anywhere. > > > > As well, I'd be curious to know the names of firms that are known > to > specialize in this sort of presentation. > > > > Thank you in advance for your suggestions. > > > > ========================================================> > 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] . 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If this is true, we are all 70-95% unethical at average fee :) ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ Jadran Kale Muzej grada Sibenika, P.p.7, HR-22001 Sibenik Croatia: 385 (0) 22 / 213 - 880, fax 213 - 355 @ http://zupanija.sibenik.museum ¤¤¤¤¤¤Sent with PINE 4.10 from CARNet¤¤¤¤¤¤ ========================================================= 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). ========================================================================Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 04:04:35 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Jim Roberts <[log in to unmask]> Subject: University of Leicester Spring School in New Media MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 The Second Leicester SPRING SCHOOL IN NEW MEDIA supported by mda, EMMLAC, and the Museums Computer Group Tues 29 April - Thurs 1 May 2003 The Leicester Spring School in New Media is a three-day course that, through a spirit of collaboration, aims to promote innovation and change, and contribute to capacity building within UK museums. The School is an occasion to reflect upon the impact and potential of digital media on the modern museum - timely at this moment when 'digital heritage' figures so largely within the funding opportunities and strategies of the sector. Through a mixture of practical workshops, seminar discussions and demonstrations, the 18 participants have the chance to debate issues, share best practice, identify trends and opportunities, and build informed and effective strategies for working with new media in a museum context. The School would be particularly appropriate for those individuals working within organisations that are looking towards developing their capacity in this area. With contributions from Resource, mda and SCRAN, as well as the higher education and commercial sectors, sessions will include: Valuing of the digital object: digitisation and copyright Writing for the Web: accessibility and usability Understanding the virtual visitor: the culture and scope of web usage Supporting e-learning: principles, practice and products Developing effective interactives: from theory to practice Introducing ambient, intelligent and mobile technology: digital media and the space of the museum Managing the project: from concept to digital product Working strategically with ICT: the way forward regionally, nationally and internationally With its carefully compiled study materials (sponsored by mwr Ltd.) the school will also provide participants with the means to 'cascade' this training, and pass their knowledge on to others. Similarly, with its affordable cost, and provision for assisted places (through a limited number of bursaries) the School also aims to provide an accessible training opportunity. The fee is £150 (for the three days). This includes the study materials, tea and coffee through the day, a drinks reception (sponsored by EMMLAC) at the end of Day 1, and an evening meal (sponsored by Ansae) on Day 2, as well as access to a range of eateries on campus. Thanks to concession rates agreed with the University, accommodation packages (for 2 nights) are also available, at £240 and £290 (subject to availability) at two local hotels only 3 minutes walk from the venue. To provide an environment that is conducive to learning and active participation, the School is, at present, limited to just 18 places. We anticipate demand will be high. Please note, therefore, that places will be allocated on a first come first served basis. However, in order to make the School as accessible as possible, some bursaries are available for assisted places. If you would like to know more about the Leicester Spring School in New Media, or would like to request a booking form, please contact Ross Parry on [log in to unmask], or phone +44(0)116 252 3963, or write to Dr. Ross Parry (Spring School in New Media) Department of Museum Studies University of Leicester 105 Princess Road East LEICESTER LE1 7LG What participants said about last year's School: 'the speakers were entertaining and informative and really illustrated how New Media can be used to good effect if properly planned' 'Excellent, useful and timely, considering the wealth the IT projects currently underway in the Heritage sector.' 'The opportunity afforded by the School to have three days away was valuable in itself. With excellent sessions, I gained real benefit from the experience. 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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). ========================================================================Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:20:20 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Nicholas Burlakoff <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: ethical violations at Austin museum-reply from the gutless coward In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit It must feel delicious to feel secure behind a cloak of anonymity while ridiculing those who question the ethical standards of a person who spews accusations at folk without the courage to face the one, one slanders. The fact is, that the aggrieved party can get access to the e-mail registration of the anonymous slanderer and consequences can still befall. And final irony, my own sympathy goes out to a director who has to deal with disloyal ex-employees and anonymous slanderers. The list needs to set a policy that prevents anonymous postings. We need to ensure that a list master either stops them, or exposes the identity of these truly unethical folk. Nicholas Burlakoff -----Original Message----- From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Anon Anon Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 12:13 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: ethical violations at Austin museum-reply from the gutless coward It's always nice to feel a bit attacked on a Monday morning, don't you think? For your information, the "Anon Anon" name was a quirk of signing up for this list some time ago. I wasn't sure what junky mail I'd be receiving, so I left it anonymous in the blanks. More to the present issue though, "yes" I prefer to remain anonymous because I'm afraid of repercussions among my peers. Does that make me a gutless coward? Sure, please send me to Hell, do not pass go. I work in an Austin museum though (I'll say that much), and this is a small town in some ways and if you knew the personalities involved you'd know that some of them are not above a little professional retribution. That sort of comes out in the article. I don't know all of the people involved very well, but some. Sally is a committed professional, and was treated very unfairly. Other staff at that museum have been fired, and it seems to go from bad to worse over there. The university has done nothing. This situation is very unfortunate, and the article doesn't make it clear that a director deaccessioning and selling off collections without public or curatorial input is really quite a serious offence in the museum world. I thought it was worth sharing with this list. As museum curators, you know how serious this is. No, I can't "go after him" because I'm not willing to risk that and I sincerely apologize for being flippant in my earlier message. But that doesn't mean that others shouldn't know what's going on and we can all learn from this. >From: Shoshanna Lansberg <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: ethical violations at Austin museum >Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 07:59:30 -0800 > > >I don't know about you. But anyone who has the determination to post >something like this on this forum should have the guts to not be anonymous. > From my reading of the article, it sounded like certain former employees >(maybe ANON ANON, himself) were disgruntled for various reasons. I am not >saying what is happening at the Texas Memorial Museum is right or wrong, >just that you should be willing to stand up for your opinions. Or maybe, >ANON ANON is afraid of burning his bridges in this tight museum community? > Anon Anon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:Does anyone know if ethical >violations are punishable by law? Someone ought >to go after this guy. > > > > >http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2003-02-21/pols_feature.html > > >The Texas Memorial Museum turns back toward its future > >Only Natural > > > > >February 21, 2003: > > >In the belly of the ichthyosaur: Texas Memorial Museum Director Edward C. >Theriot is at the center of a controversy over the museum's new direction. >photo by Jana Birchum > >The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, planted dramatically at the >north end of the Capitol, was built for people comfortable with the noisy >bustle of a shopping mall, people who like their history served up >supersized, consumers who pay top dollar expecting -- and getting -- >spectacle in return. From its gigantic welcoming Lone Star to its >vertigo-inducing IMAX theatre, it delivers history as theme park: a giant >display case built to dazzle the crowds of out-of-town tourists. > >The old Texas Memorial Museum, opened in 1939 and now tucked away behind >the >Performing Arts Center on the north end of the UT campus, was built for >people with a taste for calmer, less-crowded pleasures. "It was built with >a >Victorian ideal of knowledge acquired through quiet," said Museum Director >Ed Theriot said. "But in recent months, TMM has become a much noisier place >-- caught in the middle of a fussy yet principled debate over where the old >museum is headed and a yearlong renovation to help it get there (see "A >Pterosaur's Eye View," p.26). > >TMM is changing -- Theriot is seeing to it -- and there are some people who >don't like the change. They especially don't like the way Theriot is >handling it. One employee found the change so "ethically troubling" that >she >quit her job as manager of the museum's cultural collections. "I was >dumbfounded," said Sally Baulch, when Theriot announced to the staff, in >August 2002, that the museum would be getting rid of the cultural >collections acquired since it opened in 1936 and shifting its focus >exclusively to natural history. > >More than dumbfounded, Baulch said, she questioned the ethics of the >decision, because neither the museum's staff nor the community were >involved >in it. "I'm a little doubtful about [Theriot] making the decision alone. >That's what made me uncomfortable," said Baulch, who now works for Texas >Parks and Wildlife. She said the UT board of regents, which also serves as >the museum board, was not asked to vote on the decision, even though it >involves dispersing or possibly "deaccessioning" (i.e., selling off) >potentially valuable collections. "I think when we are talking about what >happens to more than 40,000 objects," Baulch said. "It needs to go to the >regents." > >The Wonders of the World The thousands of objects among the TMM cultural >history holdings include items acquired from donations and field >collections. They range from the mundane to the exotic, from lowbrow to >high >art, from practical to whimsical, from the historic to the merely old. >There >are kitschy objects made from animal horn, but there is also an impressive >collection, of unknown worth, of pre-Columbian pottery; a collection of >1,300 firearms that includes not only a historic pair of beat-up pistols >owned by Stephen F. Austin but also a German machine gun of no particular >historic value; a teapot presented to Sam Houston in 1839 by the empress of >China in honor of Texas independence; Moroccan rugs; more than 30 Navajo >rugs from the late 19th and early 20th centuries; quilts, including Texas >quilts that made up the museum's final cultural exhibition; clothing and >costumes from antique hats to a 1960s swimsuit; lamps that burn everything >from fat to kerosene; various military objects; boot-making and shoe-repair >tools; 340 timepieces of various sorts; 877 U.S. patent models; tools; >ranching equipment including 840 branding irons, 230 pairs of spurs, 60 >saddles, and 120 barbed-wire samples; various anthropological materials >from >the U.S. and Canada; Mexican folk art, textiles, and ceramics; 1,600 >Mexican >folk toys; and a variety of items from South America, Africa, and Oceania. > >Baulch described the holdings as "really broad" with "worldwide" sources. >She said that when Theriot made the decision to eliminate the cultural >holdings, he said that "Texana materials would go to the university's >Center >for American History. The other stuff was not mentioned" -- another >troubling aspect of the decision. > >Brent Lyles is another former TMM employee. He lost his job as director of >Public Programs before Theriot announced the changes at the museum, but he >has been vocal about his discomfort with Theriot's action. "I don't think >Ed >is doing anything illegal, but I think he is doing something unethical, and >I think he knows it." > >Theriot doesn't back away from the fact that he made the decision to change >TMM's direction. And he doesn't find it ethically troubling, either. "I get >a little hot with this ethical argument," Theriot said. "Unethical would be >putting things where they will never be seen. We cannot be the museum of >the >stuff the staff loves any more than we can be the museum of the stuff Ed >Theriot thinks is cool. We will fail." > >Theriot said his decision had the support of Mary Ann Rankin, dean of the >College of Natural Sciences, which operates TMM. University Provost Sheldon >Ekland-Olson submitted the proposed change to the university's legal >affairs >office before signing off on it in August 2002. Theriot also defended the >decision as being perfectly ethical within the museum community. True, TMM >was first chartered as a natural history and cultural facility in 1935, but >Theriot said it was made part of the university in 1959, with the >stipulation that it be run "for the benefit of the University of Texas." He >contends that his decision to eliminate the cultural collections is the >best >way for the museum to serve the university, especially under the wing of >the >College of Natural Sciences. > >Theriot sees no reason why his decision should have come as a surprise to >anyone, and says it was no secret: "When I was hired there was a question >during the [job] interview about changing the focus of the museum to >natural >history." That was more than five years ago. > >Out of the Attic Ed Theriot seems like the man his credentials and his job >make him out to be: an academic, a biologist, a museum enthusiast. But he >is >also a museum director who has had to take a long, businesslike look at the >museum he runs -- and the Bullock-influenced world he runs it in -- and >make >some businesslike decisions. > >"Thinking about it like a business -- not a for-profit business, but not a >for-loss business, either -- if you try to be all things to all people all >the time, you fail," Theriot said. "People think of us as the dinosaur >museum." And he doesn't think that is a bad thing. But he thinks there is >another way to see TMM, too. "We are a 60-year-old start-up business." And >he doesn't think that is such a good thing. To be successful, he says, "We >have to leverage our core resources against what the public wants. > >"Even with no Bullock, you could see what we needed to do," Theriot said. >It >is "largely a coincidence my decision was made after the Bullock opened." > > >Treasures such as this pterosaur skeleton are what the museum does best, >Theriot says; to keep everything, he says, would make TMM "the university's >attic." >photo by Jana Birchum > >"From early on we said we needed to find what would unify and drive the >museum," he said, adding that that turned out to be natural history. "What >appealed to people was that we were the authority, making discoveries and >doing research." > >During the past three or four years, Theriot said he has assembled an >advisory council, drawing heavily on people involved with business and >marketing. "They suggested change," he said. And they suggested that the >museum focus on its strength. > >One problem is limited resources. TMM operates on an annual budget of about >$1 million, and only $167,000 is provided directly by a state budget line >item for public programming. Permanent university funds and specific grants >provide the bulk of the budget, supplemented a bit by sales from the museum >shop. Indirect costs, including such things as utilities, are paid out of >general UT revenues and just about double the basic budget -- so the actual >cost of housing and preserving the collections comes to nearly $2 million. >Theriot said that the museum has poured a sizeable portion of its resources >into cultural history exhibits in recent years, at the expense of the bulk >of the museum's holdings. "While doing a very nice job with things like >quilts and with rearranging Native American artifacts, at the end of the >day >we still were stuck with a 1960s geology hall," he said. He believes that >approach was doing the university and the museum a disservice. > >Theriot said the strength of TMM's core resources is clearly in the natural >history collections, where between 5 and 6 million individual pieces make >up >99.3% of the museum's holdings. "That other 0.7% represents the cultural >history holdings and approximately 50% of that is what we would call >'Texana'" -- items directly related to Texas history. In addition, Theriot >said, the natural history collection, which has built up through years of >university-generated research and study, "grew organically"; the cultural >history collection "grew more randomly," sometimes through study, often >through donations. Thus, "the sum of it is more random than the natural >history collection." > >Theriot cited the 1,300-piece firearms collection. "We had it inspected by >a >professional about three years ago. He said what we had was a nice >assemblage, but not really a collection." Theriot described other parts of >the cultural history collection as "piecemeal" and "fragmented" >accumulations and said, "We are not the university's attic." > >However, the university's Center for American History "sees itself as being >the university's attic," Theriot said. So, when he made the decision to >eliminate the cultural history function of the museum, it was the first >place he contacted. He knew they would want the Texana material. > >Getting and Spending Don Carleton directs the Center for American History. >"This is something that should have happened years ago," he said. "It is a >way of putting strength with strength. They [TMM] haven't been able to work >with the material. We will be able to work with it more. It goes to the >heart of taking resources and managing them." Carleton said his staff >already has begun examining the materials, seeing just what is Texana and >what is not. It is a process that will take as long as a year. > >Theriot said the history center will not be allowed simply to "cherry pick" >the Texana collection and skim the good stuff. "They know they have to take >it all or nothing." He said the time for dealing with the rest of the >cultural history collections will be after decisions have been made about >the Texana. But the fate of the remainder of the collections could be >something entirely different: deaccession. That is what a museum does when >it gets rid of holdings. And that is what seems to be on the minds of some >of the people critical of Theriot. > >"What I would like to see happen is for the university and the public to >see >what a treasure they have and hire a manager to show it off," said former >staffer Brent Lyles. But that is not a part of Theriot's plans. > >Lyles doesn't think much of Theriot's abilities as a museum director. "He >is >well-intentioned, but I don't think he is an effective manager," Lyles >said. >He also thinks Theriot has shirked ethical responsibility by not including >more people in the decision to change the focus of TMM and get rid of the >cultural history collections. > >Bausch has similar criticisms. "Usually decision is staff-driven. This is >one person making the decision," she said. "The advisory council is not >allowed to shape the direction of the museum." Bausch described Theriot's >advisory council as nothing more than a "friends of the museum" group. She >still sees the museum as hampered by a lack of planning. But she also >admitted that if the staff instead of Theriot had made the decision on >which >way TMM should go -- nature or culture -- the decision probably would have >been the same. "We would have made the decision a different way," Bausch >said. "And we would have made an easier transition." > >While the Texana materials will be changing homes, all of it will remain >property of the university. But what about the other collections? The >pre-Columbian pottery? The Navajo blankets? The Moroccan rugs? All those >firearms, costumes, and hats, the Eskimo jacket, the African spears? Is >there a chance that any of that material actually will be sold? > > >photo by Jana Birchum > >"Yes," Theriot said. Attempts will be made to place some of the collections >with other museums in the state. But could any of the museum's cultural >collections reach the open market? "In theory, yes," Theriot said, though >he >added that it is far too early in the process to consider it. "But we would >have to consider donors' wishes, the educational value of certain items, >what other museums are interested in buying and selling. And if we do sell >anything, we can't just pocket the money or use it to cover shortfalls or >capital investments. We could use it to buy other collections or in >something like a research endowment." > >But he said that until decisions are made on the Texana, no other decisions >will be made as to what to do with other parts of the collection. He said >that is why he could not tell staffers precisely what will happen to all of >the collections when he announced last August that the museum would focus >on >natural history. He said he still does not know. "The Texana is easy." > >Thinking of Dinosaurs The curtain officially came down on TMM's involvement >with cultural history on Dec. 31, 2002. The final show featured Texas >quilts >and Native American cultures in the museum's fourth-floor gallery. Now that >gallery and a large first-floor gallery are closed for renovation. A >dinosaur skeleton hangs from the ceiling of the first-floor gallery, >ghost-wrapped snugly in plastic as workers paint the walls. The galleries >are not scheduled to reopen until next year, but by early January, only >items pertaining to natural history were for sale in the museum gift shop. > >The first-floor gallery will house a brand new Hall of Geology and will be >home to dinosaurs, fossil animals, rocks, and minerals, along with a >working >paleontologist. The fourth floor will feature the latest in >computer-assisted visualization technology. > >Theriot said his advisory council told him "to make the museum more >presentable," and that is what is happening. Specimens will be "artfully >displayed" in freshly renovated spaces. But the spirit of the old TMM will >live on. "We are going for an old look, but without the stodginess," >Theriot >said. > >Lynn Denton is director of the Bullock State History Museum. She worked for >TMM for more than a decade and served as manager of the cultural history >collections. "They have some tough decisions to make" to remain vital, she >said. "These are important collections, and I have no indication that they >don't see them as important collections." Of the museum's decision to rid >itself of the cultural history collections, Denton said that "as long as >this is handled thoughtfully, carefully and legally, I don't see a problem. >This is a path TMM has been shaping for a long time, but that hasn't always >been articulated clearly along the way." > >Some people see Ed Theriot as a no-way-but-my-way kind of guy, with a >no-nonsense management style, but he is also undeniably a man with a vision >and a mission for his little museum. Leaving others to debate ethics and >committees, Theriot is striding toward the future across what he obviously >sees as firm legal and ethical ground. He said he is working with his >advisory council to "brand" the museum, in time for a full reopening in >January of 2004. When Texans think of dinosaurs, fish, snakes, rocks, and >fossils, Theriot wants them to think of the Texas Memorial Museum. In the >increasingly competitive and sometimes flashy world of museums, he doesn't >want to be Brand X. > > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* >http://join.msn.com/?pagežatures/junkmail > >========================================================>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] . 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The body of the message should read "Signoff >Museum-L" (without the quotes). _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pagežatures/junkmail ========================================================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). ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 06:53:10 -0800 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Indigo Nights <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: ethical violations at Austin museum-reply from the gutless coward In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi. My name is Gayle Montgomery. I've been posting as Indigo Nights on this list for five years. My anonymity hasn't harmed the list. Frankly, I could have gone back to Gayle years ago except that members of this list didn't know Gayle, they knew Indigo and, with a few thousand members, it just seemed more logical to maintain the same identity. I've "outted" myself on more than one occasion. So I rather take exception to the puffing umbrage that seems to evolve in this thread. Why do I take umbrage? Because Indigo was created years ago to protect me from workplace, illegal, unethical, human resource type violations that were ongoing in another career as I considered moving into the world of museums. After all, my interest was in development, and I had already raised $3/4 million for charity, largely from the for-profit sector. Figured I could move to NPO because it was sort of like converting from Methodist to Lutheran at one point. The skills were simply transferrable. Those who think John Chadwick is going to bounce someone for being anonymous apparently don't know John. Suggesting he's going to change the tenor of this list because someone else's perception of just how it should be run doesn't match isn't going to happen. John will help us keep spammers off list for the most part--and the next time someone spams, it's simply best to ignore them because you're just providing them an additional, valid email address to send their garbage. But those of you who are puffing about what an employee should do or not do in another job are obviously standing on secure ground. You have your job or the tools to be able to walk away with no problem. Not everybody has that luxury. You are presupposing the person who took umbrage with what was ongoing has the ability to simply walk into another job which is highly preposterous. The economy, quite frankly, has tanked. Museum jobs are especially difficult to come by. Get the material from the California Arts Council I posted to the 570+ members of MuseJobs last night about how many states are facing severe budget crisis, and jobs are simply not out there to be had. In other words, at the risk of being as rude as you were to Anon, get a sincere grip on reality! I skimmed the original article,and I'm not going to dig it out. But the ethical violations hit the paper before they hit this list, if there are, in fact, ethical violations. Anon didn't make them up. (S)he simply posted the information here with the express concern that this should be looked into, and are there ways/responsibilities for that to happen? It was an informational request with some lobbying attached. Now this person has been attacked and demeaned. What the hell makes anybody here any better than Anon? Are we NOT subject to public scrutiny? Are there no responsibilities for an ED to protect and preserve collections under their care? My original thoughts had something to do with going back to the Mission Statement of the entity itself, and the actions of the ED should be accountable to the Board of the museum in question. The Board has a LEGAL responsibility to see that the mission of the entity is followed, and there may be legal ramifications if endowments are violated and/or legacies sold off for personal gain. But all this accusation among team members here, frankly, is "Amish Transportation Waste"! What makes an Enron or some other public entity subject to ethical scrutiny, and a museum exempt? Unless Indigo just crawled out from under a rock, we're all fallible human beings. We make judgmental calls about actions involving our institutions. But I don't think perfection was a requirement to joining this list, and this public spearing that seems to be ongoing is not going to engender healthy public discussion and/or support. I'm not sure whether the boards need to be pulled from eyes or backsides, but frankly this kind of public reaming is not appropriate and adds to the perception of many that there is far too much elitism in this profession than should reasonably be expected. If the director in question is mishandling those artifacts with which he is charged, does this group truly assert that's ok because the allegations were brought forth by someone who may well need a job to support their family and thereby sought the protections of anonymity? Further, this is NOT the first time the person posted as anon anon. Check out the archives. I vaguely remember seeing it posted as such before. Why didn't you take umbrage then? I seem to remember the Person of the Year went to three women who dared to blow the whistle on transgressions in industry. There seem to be some real whistle pluggers here on the list. Nonprofit organizations are subject to a higher level of scrutiny than public orgs. Why would you want to remove that protection and possibly lose treasures of import? In other words, why not deal with the question of whether a true ethics violation may have occurred with respect to the artifacts as opposed to whether you think somebody is cowardly because they chose to shield themselves from harm in the interest of protecting the treasures? Cherubim and seraphim may unite in heaven, but this list is comprised entirely of mere mortals of equal standing, and it doesn't much matter if their names are Mud and Slime if their contributions have validity. Have a nice day. If you think about it, you MIGHT want to consider a humble apology to Anon and get back to the issue (s)he raised. Gayle/Indigo --- Nicholas Burlakoff <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > It must feel delicious to feel secure behind a cloak > of anonymity while > ridiculing those who question the ethical standards > of a person who spews > accusations at folk without the courage to face the > one, one slanders. The > fact is, that the aggrieved party can get access to > the e-mail registration > of the anonymous slanderer and consequences can > still befall. And final > irony, my own sympathy goes out to a director who > has to deal with disloyal > ex-employees and anonymous slanderers. > > The list needs to set a policy that prevents > anonymous postings. We need to > ensure that a list master either stops them, or > exposes the identity of > these truly unethical folk. > > Nicholas Burlakoff ====Indigo Nights [log in to unmask] Looking for a Job? Try Got Links?, Your One-Stop Portal http://victorian.fortunecity.com/stanmer/414 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 10:27:19 -0600 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Dawn Scher Thomae <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Looking for a few AMM session presenters Comments: cc: [log in to unmask] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" We are searching for panel presenters for a session about working with guest curators in museums for the Association of Midwest Museums (AMM)conference in Milwaukee from November 5-8. While this type of collaboration is common in art museums, the feeling is that it doesn't happen quite as often in other types of museums. With a shortage of personnel (and expertise) in some museums, this can be a great way to work with your community (in the broad or narrow sense)and integrate new exhibit or program ideas. We would like speakers who have been on either side (with the museum or as a guest curator)and discuss the pros and cons of this type of relationship. Please contact Louise Pfotenhauer at [log in to unmask] if interested.. We are particularly encouraging presenters from our region, which includes Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, and Indiana. (Please be aware that compensation is not provided for presenters.) Dawn Scher Thomae AMM 2003 Program Co-Chair ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 10:27:58 -0600 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: jennifer nielsen <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Exhibit Labels MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I've worked with the company "Say It With Signs" quite successfully. They are just good folks and have lots of options in terms of materials but I am not sure if they have silver. They are in Burleson TX. Contact Bob Yearigan at 817.293.3400 or [log in to unmask] Jennifer E. Nielsen National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame -----Original Message----- From: Jenna Dixon [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 3:25 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Exhibit Labels Does anyone know of any suppliers, particularly in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, vicinity, from whom we can order silver plaque-style exhibit labels with black lettering? Any suggestions at all would be very helpful. Thank you in advance. Jenna Dixon School Programs The Science Place P.O. Box 151469 Dallas, Texas 75315-1469 (214) 428-5555 ext. 346 Discover our exciting school programs online at www.scienceplace.org ! ========================================================= 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] . 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The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). ========================================================================Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 08:35:43 -0800 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Andrew Schuricht <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: ethical violations at Austin museum MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii It sounds like Mr/Ms Anonymous doesn't understand ethics very well. Does the Texas Memorial Museum have an accessions policy? A deaccessions policy? A mission? If Mr Theriot is violating those policies, it's up to the museum board to either agree to have the policies changed or to fire Mr Theriot. From the article and no other information, it sounds to me like he's making difficult and unpopular decisions to provide a focus to the museum's collections. He also sounds like he did it in a very undiplomatic way, forgetting that one of the primary roles of a museum director is to solicit the staff's expert opinion on important decisions that affect the collections. Shady deaccessions do make very angry donors. Perhaps Anonymous will have better luck raising an angry mob there... > Anon Anon <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Does anyone know if ethical violations are punishable by law? Someone ought > to go after this guy =====================================Andrew Schuricht Consultant, Las Vegas Springs Preserve Project Las Vegas Valley Water District ========================================================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). 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Such presentations might have been designed to introduce a museum's range of collections; to complement a traditional, object-based exhibit; or to serve as a stand-alone display intended to engage visitors in some sort of thematic concern or subject of relevance to the museum or cultural organization and their publics. It might be housed in a separate facility and even be independent of any museum, although museum-like in its intentions. This sort of presentation would utilize a diverse range of current media technologies and be designed to engage and inform visitors much like an object-based exhibit, but through the latest technologies. I am familiar with small-scale examples of this sort of presentation, usually within the context of a traditional exhibit, but am wondering about their existence as larger-scaled, independent presentations. I would also like to know if there are any examples that are currently on view anywhere. As well, I'd be curious to know the names of firms that are known to specialize in this sort of presentation. Thank you in advance for your suggestions. -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ========================================================= 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). ========================================================================Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:08:15 -0600 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Lisa Moellering <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Gallery lighting question Comments: To: "RCAAM (E-mail)" <[log in to unmask]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This may sound like a simple question but I am having problems with this issue. Our main exhibition gallery has numerous lights that need changing on a regular basis. This is done by our maintenance engineer (after numerous requests). We are a relatively small museum and we do not own a lift (the lights are very high) - so we either rent a lift or use this very unsafe-looking ladder (which is probably the reason the lights do not get changed as often as they should). A few questions * do most of you have a set schedule on changing lights? * do you own a lift or rent? * How do you convince your director that having someone climb this ladder is not a good idea and investing in a lift or budgeting the money for rentals would be a safer bet? Thanks for any suggestions! Lisa Moellering Curator of Collections/Registrar Holocaust Museum Houston 5401 Caroline Street Houston, Texas 77004 713.942.8000 x110 713.942.7953 (fax) [log in to unmask] ========================================================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] . 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I am also interested in reaching out to similar organizations and putting our heads together.There is also an entire organization dedicated to this public/private partnership that we are thinking of joining: the APPL (Association of Partners for Public Lands) that can be found at www.appl.org. Valerie Schafer [log in to unmask] ====********************************************************************************************************************Valerie SchaferExecutive DirectorGarnet Preservation Association3255 Ft. Missoula RoadMissoula, MT 59804http://www.garnetghosttown.org __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 18:39:29 +0100 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Museum Security Network <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: ethical violations at Austin museum-reply from the gutless coward In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT On 25 Feb 2003 at 6:53, Indigo Nights wrote: > Hi. My name is Gayle Montgomery. I've been posting > as Indigo Nights on this list for five years. My > anonymity hasn't harmed the list. Frankly, I could > have gone back to Gayle years ago except that members > of this list didn't know Gayle, they knew Indigo and, > with a few thousand members, it just seemed more > logical to maintain the same identity. I've "outted" > myself on more than one occasion. > > So I rather take exception to the puffing umbrage that > seems to evolve in this thread. remember this text? Has anyone yet figured out how much bandwidth is being wasted on arguing about this? Could it possibly cease and desist? Just a suggestion. The back and forth this has taken is larger than the original "travesty." Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 10:23:41 -0700 From: Indigo Nights <[log in to unmask]> _____________________________ http://www.museum-security.org http://www.museum-security.org/disclaimer.html subscribe mailinglist: http://www.museum-security.org/formengl.html Invaluable weekly updated listing stolen and seized objects: http://62.173.116.77/trace/stop.asp All our outgoing mails are checked for viruses. ______________________________ ========================================================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] . 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If someone responds to the ad the law only states that the claimant must give proof of ownership to the museum's satisfaction. We're having trouble deciding exactly what "to our satisfaction" means. Does the person have to have the original loan receipt, which is very unlikely for a 60 year old loan? Does anyone have experience with similar situations and laws that might be able to offer their perspective? Also, what if the person is deceased? Can the item be claimed by a relative, if so by which relatives (for example children only or only the executor of the will)? We have referred to our state's attorney for this last question but I'd appreciate any thoughts. Thanks in advance for you help. Laura L. Hortz Curator of Collections Siouxland Heritage Museums Sioux Falls, SD 605-367-4210 ext. 3021 _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pagežatures/junkmail ========================================================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] . 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Citing sources from established media outlets that address current or proposed museum developments and/or policy changes is generally welcome and may help professionals elsewhere (remember to submit links to articles and/or article summaries, NOT entire articles, however). Thank you, -Steve Eichner (sitting in for John Chadwick) [log in to unmask] ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:16:18 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Martha Jackson <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Old Loans MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_003E_01C2DCD0.1526AE40" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_003E_01C2DCD0.1526AE40 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable . If someone > responds to the ad the law only states that the claimant must give proof of > ownership to the museum's satisfaction. We're having trouble deciding > exactly what "to our satisfaction" means. You're going to have to decide that on a case-by-case basis. We had a case of a loan made in 1916, and a great-grandaughter of the lender's second wife tried to claim the collection saying she was the only remaining relative. She wasn't; there was another relative, a great-grandson of the lender's first wife. He wanted the collection to remain in the museum. Since they both could claim equal share and had differing views, the state attorney general's office ruled that the collection would remain at the museum--essentially in limbo--until the family made a decision. Ideally, you'd like to have a copy of a will stating that the collection had been left to the claimant, assuming the lender is deceased. In lieu of that, you'll just have to do research and consult an attorney in difficult cases. Sometimes the executor of the will can help make the decision for you if the collection in question wasn't dealt with specifically. Does the person have to have the > original loan receipt, which is very unlikely for a 60 year old loan? Unlikely, but it can happen. In the 1970s, an elderly woman came into our offices with a copy of her loan agreement from 1914 and wanted her loan returned. We didn't even have a copy in our files! Fortunately, I found the item and returned it to her. And I made a copy of the signed agreement noting said return and place it in our files. Martha Battle Jackson Registrar/Curator North Carolina State Historic Sites Mailing Address: 4625 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-4625 Street Address: 301 North Blount Street, Raleigh, NC 27601 (919) 733-3456; Fax: (919) 733-9034 [log in to unmask] E-mail correspondence to and from this sender may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. The views expressed by the sender may not reflect those of my agency. ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . 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> responds to the ad the law only states that the claimant must give proof of
> ownership to the museum's satisfaction.  We're having trouble deciding
> exactly what "to our satisfaction" means.  You're going to have to decide that on a case-by-case basis.  We had a case of a loan made in 1916, and a great-grandaughter of the lender's second wife tried to claim the collection saying she was the only remaining relative.  She wasn't; there was another relative, a great-grandson of the lender's first wife.  He wanted the collection to remain in the museum.  Since they both could claim equal share and had differing views, the state attorney general's office ruled that the collection would remain at the museum--essentially in limbo--until the family made a decision.

 

Ideally, you'd like to have a copy of a will stating that the collection had been left to the claimant, assuming the lender is deceased.  In lieu of that, you'll just have to do research and consult an attorney in difficult cases.  Sometimes the executor of the will can help make the decision for you if the collection in question wasn't dealt with specifically.

 

Does the person have to have the
> original loan receipt, which is very unlikely for a 60 year old loan?  Unlikely, but it can happen.  In the 1970s, an elderly woman came into our offices with a copy of her loan agreement from 1914 and wanted her loan returned.  We didn't even have a copy in our files!  Fortunately, I found the item and returned it to her.  And I made a copy of the signed agreement noting said return and place it in our files.

 

Martha Battle Jackson
Registrar/Curator
North Carolina State Historic Sites
Mailing Address: 4625 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC  27699-4625
Street Address:  301 North Blount Street, Raleigh, NC  27601
(919) 733-3456; Fax: (919) 733-9034
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If your maintenance engineer is reluctant to change lights, you might want to make use of a lighting pro who would enjoy experimenting with different kinds of "lamps" that can have a major visual impact on your exhibit area. It may be the case that the services of such a person would cost less than a lift rental, and your gallery may have a much more dramatic appearance as a result. Good luck. Marshall Duell Curator, Old Courthouse Museum 211 W. Santa Ana Blvd. Santa Ana, CA 92701 Museum Phone: (714) 973-6605 Marshall's Phone: (714) 973-6607 Please note that we are undergoing a transition to a new telephone system.  Calls to the old number will roll over to the new numbers. [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask]   www.ocparks.com -----Original Message----- From: Lisa Moellering [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 9:08 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Gallery lighting question This may sound like a simple question but I am having problems with this issue. Our main exhibition gallery has numerous lights that need changing on a regular basis. This is done by our maintenance engineer (after numerous requests). We are a relatively small museum and we do not own a lift (the lights are very high) - so we either rent a lift or use this very unsafe-looking ladder (which is probably the reason the lights do not get changed as often as they should). A few questions * do most of you have a set schedule on changing lights? * do you own a lift or rent? * How do you convince your director that having someone climb this ladder is not a good idea and investing in a lift or budgeting the money for rentals would be a safer bet? Thanks for any suggestions! 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The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). ========================================================================Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:32:20 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Jamilyn Cole <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Exploris Job Posting MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Please excuse any cross postings. Jamilyn Cole Camp Experiences Coordinator Exploris www.exploris.org Exploris Exploris, a private, non-profit organization, is dedicated to encouraging people of all ages to respect differences, appreciate similarities, and make connections with people around the world. Exploris engages visitors in dynamic, interactive exhibits and programs that explore our world from many perspectives. After School Program Coordinator Must be self-motivated, forward-looking and creative, have an infectious passion for the world around you, be quick to respond to changing circumstances, and view this position as an opportunity to test new ideas. Conduct programs for children and young adults; develop and facilitate fee-based after school program, work on Girl Scout events primarily Brownie Days, organize Birthday parties, and assist the Camps Coordinator for overnight camp-ins and summer camps. Ideal candidates will have 1 year professional or 4 years volunteer experience in formal or informal education; proven record of successful work with groups of children, specifically in affinity groups such as Scouts, YMCA, summer camps, etc.; intermediate skills in MS Office and the Internet; success in multi-talking and time management. Prefer international backgrounds and experience living or working outside the US. This 25-hour/week position requires working some weekends. Exploris seeks people who are committed to achieving the Exploris mission and goals; refer to http://www.exploris.org. Compensation and benefits are commensurate with experience and results. Resumes are preferred electronically at [log in to unmask] Fax 919-834-3516, or mail your letter of introduction and resume to: Director of Programs, Exploris, 201 E. Hargett Street, Raleigh, NC 27601. Your compelling cover letter must specifically state which position you are applying for and you your education, training, experience, skills/abilities match the position for which you are applying. Acceptance deadline: March 18, 2003 ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 16:20:18 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: ethical violations at Austin museum MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable While Gayle (sorry it's hard NOT to think of you as Indigo) has said it more eloquently, really EVERYBODY has the option of posting anonymously; it's part of what allows us to communicate so freely on the internet. There are, however, some very interesting potential points of discussion that could be taken from this issue. More than one museum director is facing the problem of how to bring the actually workings of the insitution in-line with a new or revised (or even just paid-attention-to) mission. While I would certainly agree that this process should be as open as possible, and that the Board of Trustees for their own legal and finanical health should be involved, more and more museums will need to answer the question of whether their collections support what the museum is doing or are a drain on the museum's resources. That is not to say that these collections are not valuable and should not be in a museum, only that it may not be that particular museum that they should be in. I am in no way defending this situation (since I don't know all that much about how the decision was made and is being carried out and I, for one, am a big fan of Sally Baulch's) but only saying that we need to thinking about and discussing how and why museums may revise what they collect and what they do. Not all of us are able to make good use of "research" collections and need to ask, among other things, is there a better use that these objects can be put to (in another museum) and a better use for the resources spent on those collections. janice Janice Klein Director, Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, Kendall College [log in to unmask] www.mitchellmuseum.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ========================================================= 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] . 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MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0087_01C2DCDB.945F0940" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0087_01C2DCDB.945F0940 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Greetings, The Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communication and Computation is seeking : artifacts, books, papers, personal recollections, funny stories, newspaper clipping, magazines, catalogs, articles torn out of magazines, cartoons, prototype magnetrons, really early microwave ovens etc ANYTHING Is Fair Game! The purpose is two-fold which consists of construction the display in the museum in Glendale Arizona and also as an addition to our web site. thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC Please check our web site at http://www.smecc.org to see other engineering fields, communications and computation stuff we buy, and by all means when in Arizona drop in and see us. address: coury house / smecc 5802 w palmaire ave glendale az 85301 thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC ========================================================= 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] . 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Greetings,  The Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communication and Computation is seeking :

 

 artifacts, books, papers, personal recollections, funny stories, newspaper clipping, magazines, catalogs, articles torn out of magazines,  cartoons, prototype magnetrons,  really early microwave ovens etc  ANYTHING Is Fair Game!

 

The purpose is two-fold which consists of construction the display in the museum in Glendale Arizona  and also as an addition to our web site.

 

thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC

 

Please check our web site at
 http://www.smecc.org
to see other engineering fields, communications and computation stuff we
buy, and by all means  when in Arizona drop in and see us.

 

address:

 

 coury house / smecc
5802 w palmaire ave
glendale az 85301

 

thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC

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Regards, Lisa Moellering Curator of Collections/Registrar Holocaust Museum Houston 5401 Caroline Street Houston, Texas 77004 713.942.8000 x110 713.942.7953 (fax) [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Marshall Duell Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 12:45 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Gallery lighting question It looks I sent out an incomplete response to your concern. We too have a small museum with lighting that is difficult to access because of the very tall ceilings in the exhibit gallery. A very stable sixteen foot ladder has been preferable to a lift, which has the potential to complicate things quite a bit. If your maintenance engineer is reluctant to change lights, you might want to make use of a lighting pro who would enjoy experimenting with different kinds of "lamps" that can have a major visual impact on your exhibit area. It may be the case that the services of such a person would cost less than a lift rental, and your gallery may have a much more dramatic appearance as a result. Good luck. Marshall Duell Curator, Old Courthouse Museum 211 W. Santa Ana Blvd. Santa Ana, CA 92701 Museum Phone: (714) 973-6605 Marshall's Phone: (714) 973-6607 Please note that we are undergoing a transition to a new telephone system. Calls to the old number will roll over to the new numbers. [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] www.ocparks.com -----Original Message----- From: Lisa Moellering [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 9:08 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Gallery lighting question This may sound like a simple question but I am having problems with this issue. Our main exhibition gallery has numerous lights that need changing on a regular basis. This is done by our maintenance engineer (after numerous requests). We are a relatively small museum and we do not own a lift (the lights are very high) - so we either rent a lift or use this very unsafe-looking ladder (which is probably the reason the lights do not get changed as often as they should). A few questions * do most of you have a set schedule on changing lights? * do you own a lift or rent? * How do you convince your director that having someone climb this ladder is not a good idea and investing in a lift or budgeting the money for rentals would be a safer bet? Thanks for any suggestions! Lisa Moellering Curator of Collections/Registrar Holocaust Museum Houston 5401 Caroline Street Houston, Texas 77004 713.942.8000 x110 713.942.7953 (fax) [log in to unmask] ========================================================Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . 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The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). ========================================================================Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:41:59 -0800 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Brent Lyles <[log in to unmask]> Subject: ethics coversation Comments: cc: [log in to unmask] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_B066_01C2DCC2.86D1AE90" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_B066_01C2DCC2.86D1AE90 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Colleagues, My name's Brent Lyles, and I'm the one quoted in the article that was posted here. I appreciate longhorn8 posting the article to this list, and after the last couple of days I've had, I wish that I could go back to being anonymous. But now that I'm being discussed in public forums (fora?), I'd at least like to say a couple of things in my own defense: 1. First of all, on a personal note, I wasn't very comfortable with how I was portrayed in the article. During my interview with the reporter, we had a long conversation about museum missions, public trust, and so on. Instead of any of that thoughtful stuff making it into print, though, I come across as a whiney former employee who's hell-bent on finger pointing and name calling. (I believe longhorn8's words were "not above a little professional retribution".) I would like to think that I'm not quite that petty. When last I saw him, Ed and I still got along pretty well (that was before this story came out), even though we disagree on this. 2. Now then, on to the issue at hand: It was--and remains--my contention that changing a 65-year-old museum's mission and deaccessioning a significant chunk of its holdings are matters of the public trust. ICOM's Code of Ethics says--and correct me if I'm wrong here--that such decisions should have the input of (a) someone with curatorial expertise in that content area, and (b) the public, or at least of a board that supposedly represents the public's interests. I really do believe that Ed is doing what he thinks is right, but I also believe he's very unfortunately misinformed about what effective museum management looks like. That's my side of the story, for what it's worth. I'm not sure if he subscribes to this list, so I'll cc him, just in the interest of not talking about him behind his back. (Maybe that's silly, but I'm trying my best to be professional about this.) 3. Someone mentioned in another message that a Board of Directors should be providing some oversight. There's that "should" word again. TMM is part of UT Austin, so the only board is the university's Board of Regents. As far as I know, they don't even know this is happening. A Dean hired Ed to run the museum, and I'm sure they would just as soon not be involved in his tactics, much less provide any meaningful assistance to him: "Run your little museum and don't bother us. You wanna get rid of some stuff? Sure, whatever, show me where to sign." If this somehow turned into a public-relations problem for UT (and I seriously doubt it will), I suspect UT would happily let him take the fall for it. So is the lack of oversight Ed's fault? Or is it a systemic problem? The latter, I think, since here's a noble little museum that houses 65 years worth of cultural treasures, yet it's been relegated to a deep burial within the bureaucracy of an astoundingly huge public organization. ... Despite the fact that the article missed some of these key points, I do think it's worth reading and thinking about. I invite you to do so, and I invite you to share your thoughts with this list or with me privately, whichever you deem appropriate. I distributed the article to the email list of Austin's museum association, the Austin Museum Partnership. Museums matter, as they say, and consequently, how we run them matters too. Respectfully, Brent Lyles Austin, TX ========================================================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). ------=_NextPart_000_B066_01C2DCC2.86D1AE90 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Colleagues,

My name's Brent Lyles, and I'm the one quoted in the article that was posted here. I appreciate longhorn8 posting the article to this list, and after the last couple of days I've had, I wish that I could go back to being anonymous. But now that I'm being discussed in public forums (fora?), I'd at least like to say a couple of things in my own defense:

1. First of all, on a personal note, I wasn't very comfortable with how I was portrayed in the article. During my interview with the reporter, we had a long conversation about museum missions, public trust, and so on. Instead of any of that thoughtful stuff making it into print, though, I come across as a whiney former employee who's hell-bent on finger pointing and name calling. (I believe longhorn8's words were "not above a little professional retribution".) I would like to think that I'm not quite that petty. When last I saw him, Ed and I still got along pretty well (that was before this story came out), even though we disagree on this.

2. Now then, on to the issue at hand: It was--and remains--my contention that changing a 65-year-old museum's mission and deaccessioning a significant chunk of its holdings are matters of the public trust. ICOM's Code of Ethics says--and correct me if I'm wrong here--that such decisions should have the input of (a) someone with curatorial expertise in that content area, and (b) the public, or at least of a board that supposedly represents the public's interests. I really do believe that Ed is doing what he thinks is right, but I also believe he's very unfortunately misinformed about what effective museum management looks like. That's my side of the story, for what it's worth. I'm not sure if he subscribes to this list, so I'll cc him, just in the interest of not talking about him behind his back. (Maybe that's silly, but I'm trying my best to be professional about this.)

3. Someone mentioned in another message that a Board of Directors should be providing some oversight. There's that "should" word again. TMM is part of UT Austin, so the only board is the university's Board of Regents. As far as I know, they don't even know this is happening. A Dean hired Ed to run the museum, and I'm sure they would just as soon not be involved in his tactics, much less provide any meaningful assistance to him: "Run your little museum and don't bother us. You wanna get rid of some stuff? Sure, whatever, show me where to sign." If this somehow turned into a public-relations problem for UT (and I seriously doubt it will), I suspect UT would happily let him take the fall for it. So is the lack of oversight Ed's fault? Or is it a systemic problem? The latter, I think, since here's a noble little museum that houses 65 years worth of cultural treasures, yet it's been relegated to a deep burial within the bureaucracy of an astoundingly huge public organization.

... Despite the fact that the article missed some of these key points, I do think it's worth reading and thinking about. I invite you to do so, and I invite you to share your thoughts with this list or with me privately, whichever you deem appropriate. I distributed the article to the email list of Austin's museum association, the Austin Museum Partnership. Museums matter, as they say, and consequently, how we run them matters too.

Respectfully,

Brent Lyles
Austin, TX


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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). ------=_NextPart_000_B066_01C2DCC2.86D1AE90-- ========================================================================Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 15:56:21 -0600 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Jerry Fahey <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Gallery lighting question MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Just how tall are your ceilings? Rolling ladders of various heights are available. Lisa Moellering wrote: > Thanks so much for you reply. I think our maintenance staff would be happy > with a 16 foot ladder - right now they use a 40 ft. extension ladder - too > scary. I think we will have to go with a lift. Scaffolding was another > suggestion that sounds interesting. Now to find the money! > > Thanks again. > > Regards, > > Lisa Moellering > Curator of Collections/Registrar > Holocaust Museum Houston > 5401 Caroline Street > Houston, Texas 77004 > 713.942.8000 x110 > 713.942.7953 (fax) > [log in to unmask] > ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 15:11:04 -0600 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Heather Bailey <[log in to unmask]> Subject: ethical violations Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Aside from the side issue of people posting anonymously, I would truly like to hear what professionals in the field have to say about this situation (as described in the news article) and about ethical administration of an historic site/museum/archive (basically any institution which is held in public trust) in general. I am currently an MA student at Middle Tennessee State University, getting my degree in history with a concentration in public history and a specialization in museum studies. We've discussed ethics and effective museum management in my development of a local museum and museum management classes, and are again digging into the issue in my administration of historic organizations class...but it's one thing to read about it in a book and to discuss it with students and professors, and quite another to hear from people currently working in the field. This is not to short-change my professors or even my fellow students (their expertise and experience is exceptional), but I am looking for more input. I realize that this may be a sensitive topic, but I am honestly interested in hearing the personal perspectives of practicing professionals. Thanks, Heather Bailey http://heatherbailey.tripod.com/portfolio.html _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pagežatures/junkmail ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 17:54:06 -0700 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: kathrine browne <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Gallery lighting question In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit When I was in high school, I worked at a movie theater where lights had to be changed quite often and we had to deal with extremely high ceilings. We used a device that consisted of a long pole that had a suction cup on the end. I'm not sure if it had a brand name but it worked really well for changing the light bulbs and no one had to climb up a ladder. Finding one of these might be cheaper than scaffolding? Kathrine Browne > Just how tall are your ceilings? Rolling ladders of various heights are > available. > > Lisa Moellering wrote: > >> Thanks so much for you reply. I think our maintenance staff would be happy >> with a 16 foot ladder - right now they use a 40 ft. extension ladder - too >> scary. I think we will have to go with a lift. Scaffolding was another >> suggestion that sounds interesting. Now to find the money! >> >> Thanks again. >> >> Regards, >> >> Lisa Moellering >> Curator of Collections/Registrar >> Holocaust Museum Houston >> 5401 Caroline Street >> Houston, Texas 77004 >> 713.942.8000 x110 >> 713.942.7953 (fax) >> [log in to unmask] >> > > ========================================================> 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] . 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The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). ========================================================================Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 23:29:07 -0800 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Lucy Sperlin <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: ethics conversation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Brent and Janice have both articulately stated what may be the two legitimate sides to this story: either the director is legitimately trying to focus the museum's mission, or he is not using appropriate process(es) to approve large scale deaccessioning. Either way, it has created a perceived problem, which, in the best case scenario, has arisen from lack of appropriate process structure. I have to back up Brent's conclusion that it is a systemic problem. It is, in my opinion, one that is particular to University Museums. In the University Museum I worked for, my predecessor had unethically and/or illegally deaccessioned hundreds of items, having received approval from a University Committee to whom she had portrayed the items to be deaccessioned as duplicates and "junk". In fact, part of it (a small part) was about one half of a very large collection of Native American Basketry that was sold for amounts recorded on a sheet I found as from $10 to $30 per basket. This was about 25 years ago, but that was still absurdly low. Also vanished were firearms, archaeological materials, pianos, and hundreds of other items. It took at least a decade to begin to recover credibility and trust in the eyes of the public. Some years later, at the same University, the museum, (another "noble little museum housing cultural treasures") with a 60,000 item collection dating back almost 100 years, was summarily closed (reasons both stated and political are too involved to go into here), and the University is still living with the adverse consequences. They'll likely spend as much or more mopping up the mess than they would have to keep the museum open. It seems to me that few University administrators understand the concept of public trust where their museums are concerned. Boards of Regents are so far removed that they, also, don't realize any trust responsibilities in regards to the museums. Also, the Regents will usually fully back the administration in such a matter, seeing it as internal to the university. There is also the fact that in the eyes of many within the University system, the collection is simply 'state property' to be dealt with like worn out typewriters and file cabinets. I suspect that they also very much underestimate the negative consequences of such actions, perhaps partly because they aren't used to having to worry about public opinion regarding their disposal of "surplus" property. I don't know the answer to the problem, but I believe it exists and the Austin case is not an isolated incident. I have heard of several other similar cases. Perhaps as enough of these incidents reach problem proportions, the issue will be begin to be addressed at gatherings of administrators in higher education and some education about museums and public trust can be undertaken. It is in that hope that I even air my former institution's "dirty laundry". If no one talks about it, each incident will appear as an isolated anomaly and nothing will change. Lucy Sperlin Brent Lyles wrote: > > Colleagues, > > My name's Brent Lyles, and I'm the one quoted in the article that was > posted here. I appreciate longhorn8 posting the article to this list, > and after the last couple of days I've had, I wish that I could go > back to being anonymous. But now that I'm being discussed in public > forums (fora?), I'd at least like to say a couple of things in my own > defense: > > 1. First of all, on a personal note, I wasn't very comfortable with > how I was portrayed in the article. During my interview with the > reporter, we had a long conversation about museum missions, public > trust, and so on. Instead of any of that thoughtful stuff making it > into print, though, I come across as a whiney former employee who's > hell-bent on finger pointing and name calling. (I believe longhorn8's > words were "not above a little professional retribution".) I would > like to think that I'm not quite that petty. When last I saw him, Ed > and I still got along pretty well (that was before this story came > out), even though we disagree on this. > > 2. Now then, on to the issue at hand: It was--and remains--my > contention that changing a 65-year-old museum's mission and > deaccessioning a significant chunk of its holdings are matters of the > public trust. ICOM's Code of Ethics says--and correct me if I'm wrong > here--that such decisions should have the input of (a) someone with > curatorial expertise in that content area, and (b) the public, or at > least of a board that supposedly represents the public's interests. I > really do believe that Ed is doing what he thinks is right, but I also > believe he's very unfortunately misinformed about what effective > museum management looks like. That's my side of the story, for what > it's worth. I'm not sure if he subscribes to this list, so I'll cc > him, just in the interest of not talking about him behind his back. > (Maybe that's silly, but I'm trying my best to be professional about > this.) > > 3. Someone mentioned in another message that a Board of Directors > should be providing some oversight. There's that "should" word again. > TMM is part of UT Austin, so the only board is the university's Board > of Regents. As far as I know, they don't even know this is happening. > A Dean hired Ed to run the museum, and I'm sure they would just as > soon not be involved in his tactics, much less provide any meaningful > assistance to him: "Run your little museum and don't bother us. You > wanna get rid of some stuff? Sure, whatever, show me where to sign." > If this somehow turned into a public-relations problem for UT (and I > seriously doubt it will), I suspect UT would happily let him take the > fall for it. So is the lack of oversight Ed's fault? Or is it a > systemic problem? The latter, I think, since here's a noble little > museum that houses 65 years worth of cultural treasures, yet it's been > relegated to a deep burial within the bureaucracy of an astoundingly > huge public organization. > > ... Despite the fact that the article missed some of these key points, > I do think it's worth reading and thinking about. I invite you to do > so, and I invite you to share your thoughts with this list or with me > privately, whichever you deem appropriate. I distributed the article > to the email list of Austin's museum association, the Austin Museum > Partnership. Museums matter, as they say, and consequently, how we run > them matters too. > > Respectfully, > > Brent Lyles > Austin, TX > > ========================================================= Important > Subscriber Information: > > The Museum-L FAQ file is located at > http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . 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The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). ========================================================================Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 02:14:16 -0800 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Roy Hemmat <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: ethics conversation In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lucy Sperlin wrote .. (regarding a University museum collection): "Also vanished were firearms, archaeological materials, pianos, and hundreds of other items." My lighthearted comment regarding what is a serious issue: "Pianos?! .. 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The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). ========================================================================Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 15:58:24 -0600 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Julie Holcomb <[log in to unmask]> Organization: Navarro College Subject: Re: ethical violations at Austin museum MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------7E72A844002142449D6AB31B" --------------7E72A844002142449D6AB31B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I think Janice has pointed out something we all need to give a great deal of thought to especially in these times of ever-tightening budgets. While I'm not defending the situation, I think Theriot has pointed out a problem many of us will face at some time in our professional lives. Are our collections in the best possible repository given our resources and our individual missions? My institution's collections, like those at TMM, grew haphazardly. Some have received ongoing support from the donor(s) while others were given with no thought to their future care. When I started my position two years ago, the archives/museum did not have a collection policy so you can imagine the eclecticism of our collections. I have everything from a collection of hobbits to arrowheads to physical restraint devices to comic books not to mention our major collections of Civil War manuscripts, works of western art, and college and local history. Like all state funded institutions in Texas and elsewhere we are facing a very bleak immediate future. We reduced our current budget by 10% in the midst of the current fiscal year and will be forced to reduce by another 12% for the upcoming fiscal year (our library book budget is facing a 75% reduction!). I have been concerned about our ability to care for our diverse collections since I arrived here at Navarro and now with a severely reduced budget we will have to make decisions about the future of our collections. Some may be deaccessioned for placement in another, more appropriate repository with the resources and the mission to support those collections. I for one would like to hear from others who are re-thinking their collection policies in the wake of shrinking budgets. Julie Holcomb ------------------------------------------------------ Julie Holcomb, MLIS, CA College and Special Collections Archivist Pearce Civil War Collection Pearce Western Art Collection Navarro College 3200 W. 7th Ave. Corsicana, Texas 75110 903-875-7438 [log in to unmask] http://www.nav.cc.tx.us/archives/index.html “History does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.” James Baldwin "[log in to unmask]" wrote: > There are, however, some very interesting potential points of discussion > that could be taken from this issue. More than one museum director is > facing the problem of how to bring the actually workings of the insitution > in-line with a new or revised (or even just paid-attention-to) mission. > While I would certainly agree that this process should be as open as > possible, and that the Board of Trustees for their own legal and finanical > health should be involved, more and more museums will need to answer the > question of whether their collections support what the museum is doing or > are a drain on the museum's resources. That is not to say that these > collections are not valuable and should not be in a museum, only that it > may not be that particular museum that they should be in. I am in no way > defending this situation (since I don't know all that much about how the > decision was made and is being carried out and I, for one, am a big fan of > Sally Baulch's) but only saying that we need to thinking about and > discussing how and why museums may revise what they collect and what they > do. Not all of us are able to make good use of "research" collections and > need to ask, among other things, is there a better use that these objects > can be put to (in another museum) and a better use for the resources spent > on those collections. > > janice > > Janice Klein > Director, Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, Kendall College > [log in to unmask] > www.mitchellmuseum.org ========================================================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). --------------7E72A844002142449D6AB31B Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I think Janice has pointed out something we all need to give a great deal of thought to especially in these times of ever-tightening budgets.  While I'm not defending the situation, I think Theriot has pointed out a problem many of us will face at some time in our professional lives.  Are our collections in the best possible repository given our resources and our individual missions?  My institution's collections, like those at TMM, grew haphazardly.  Some have received ongoing support from the donor(s) while others were given with no thought to their future care.  When I started my position two years ago, the archives/museum did not have a collection policy so you can imagine the eclecticism of our collections.  I have everything from a collection of hobbits to arrowheads to physical restraint devices to comic books not to mention our major collections of Civil War manuscripts, works of western art, and college and local history.  Like all state funded institutions in Texas and elsewhere we are facing a very bleak immediate future.  We reduced our current budget by 10% in the midst of the current fiscal year and will be forced to reduce by another 12% for the upcoming fiscal year (our library book budget is facing a 75% reduction!).  I have been concerned about our ability to care for our diverse collections since I arrived here at Navarro and now with a severely reduced budget we will have to make decisions about the future of our collections.  Some may be deaccessioned for placement in another, more appropriate repository with the resources and the mission to support those collections.  I for one would like to hear from others who are re-thinking their collection policies in the wake of shrinking budgets.
Julie Holcomb

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Julie Holcomb, MLIS, CA
College and Special Collections Archivist
Pearce Civil War Collection
Pearce Western Art Collection

Navarro College
3200 W. 7th Ave.
Corsicana, Texas 75110
903-875-7438
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"[log in to unmask]" wrote:

There are, however, some very interesting potential points of discussion
that could be taken from this issue.  More than one museum director is
facing the problem of how to bring the actually workings of the insitution
in-line with a new or revised (or even just paid-attention-to) mission.
While I would certainly agree that this process should be as open as
possible, and that the Board of Trustees for their own legal and finanical
health should be involved, more and more museums will need to answer the
question of whether their collections support what the museum is doing or
are a drain on the museum's resources.  That is not to say that these
collections are not valuable and should not be in a museum, only that it
may not be that particular museum that they should be in.  I am in no way
defending this situation (since I don't know all that much about how the
decision was made and is being carried out and I, for one, am a big fan of
Sally Baulch's) but only saying that we need to thinking about and
discussing how and why museums may revise what they collect and what they
do.   Not all of us are able to make good use of "research" collections and
need to ask, among other things, is there a better use that these objects
can be put to (in another museum) and a better use for the resources spent
on those collections.

janice

Janice Klein
Director, Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, Kendall College
[log in to unmask]
www.mitchellmuseum.org

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Four Mile Historic Park, Inc. seeks an energetic, flexible, and hands-on Executive Director to lead this growing and dynamic organization.  The 12-acre historic park is the site of Denver's oldest standing house.  The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a Denver Landmark.  The park has award-winning education programs and a reputation for excellent programming in the community.  The successful candidate must have strong fund raising skills including grant writing and administration; the drive to carry out the park's strategic plans including major building and landscape projects; the skills needed to work with a board of directors, staff, volunteers, local government entities, and funders; and the ability to work in an outdoor, farm-like environment.  Three -5 years non-profit management experience and a bachelor's degree is required.   Emphasis in history, education, business, non-profit administration, or museum studies is preferred.  Experience in historic sites/museum administration is desired.  Salary range: $38-45K.  Position open until filled.  Send cover letter, resume, and three professional references to: Atten: Barbara Baldwin, 3773 Cherry Creek North Drive, #575, Denver, CO, 80209 or email to [log in to unmask]  No phone calls.

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Participants of these workshops will learn hands-on preservation techniques for their paper collections.  Instructor will be Neil Cockerline, Field Services Director with Upper Midwest Conservation Association.

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April 14-15, 2003 - South Dakota Art Museum-Brookings, SD
April 24-25, 2003 - Plains Art Museum-Fargo, ND
April 28-29, 2003 - Cedar Rapids Museum of Art-Cedar Rapids, IA
May 1-2, 2003 - Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum-Wausau, WI
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George Garner National Speedskating Museum and Hall of Fame George Garner, Director and Curator P.O. Box 3120, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 (518) 587-2609 |-----Original Message----- |From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On |Behalf Of Dawn Scher Thomae |Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 3:25 PM |To: [log in to unmask] |Subject: Museums in airports and malls | | |Besides the Milwaukee airport, which other U.S. airports (or |malls) have |museums or museum extensions? |Dawn Scher Thomae |Milwaukee Public 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] . 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We have been approached to use one of our historic house museums for a four day film shoot.  It is a small budget student film, not a commercial venture.  I was wondering if other museums have policies with regards to filming and photographing, if you would be interested in sharing your policy with me.  Thanks!

 

Alicia Schatteman, Executive Director
The Montclair Historical Society
108 Orange Road, Montclair, NJ 07042
973-744-1796
http://www.montclairhistorical.org/
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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). --Boundary_(ID_8XbM02IRgsRAbarknkK/Zg)-- ========================================================================Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:07:01 -0600 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Jill Keehner <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: film question Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline All I can say from past experience is to make sure they understand exactly what they can and cannot do. I was working at a museum one time (which was a historic building) and this film crew came in and basically took over. They were trying to hang lights from inappropriate places... they plugged in too many cords and overloaded the circuits and just generally had no respect for the building. I was just the front desk person at that time and didn't feel like I had much weight to throw around even though I wanted to give them an earful. Jill L. Keehner Jill Keehner Curator Kansas State Historical Society 6425 SW 6th Avenue Topeka, Kansas 66615-1099 (785) 272-8681 ext. 425 ========================================================= 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] . 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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). ========================================================================Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 16:39:04 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: lorettalorance <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Museums in airports and malls MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Pittsburgh airport has dinosaur fossils or replicas, I'm not sure if that's what you want. Loretta Lorance ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dawn Scher Thomae" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 3:25 PM Subject: Museums in airports and malls > Besides the Milwaukee airport, which other U.S. airports (or malls) have > museums or museum extensions? > Dawn Scher Thomae > Milwaukee Public 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] . 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MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0006_01C2DDAF.00D6FD20" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C2DDAF.00D6FD20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable A local museum is exploring options for installing UV film on its windows to protect its collection. They are curious to hear about other museums' experiences deciding what film is most appropriate. Some of the the museum's criteria is that it be non-visible, can be removed without leaving a trace, safe for historic glass, and of course, reasonably priced. If anyone can share their knowledge in the area of protective UV film, we could all use a lesson here. Thank you, Jeffrey Durst Education & Interpretation Specialist The Alliance for Historic Hillsborough 150 E. King St. Hillsborough, NC 27278 www.historichillsborough.org 919-732-7741 fax 919-732-2266 ========================================================= 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). ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C2DDAF.00D6FD20 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

A local museum is exploring options for installing UV film on its windows to protect its collection.  They are curious to hear about other museums' experiences deciding what film is most appropriate.  Some of the the museum's criteria is that it be non-visible, can be removed without leaving a trace, safe for historic glass, and of course, reasonably priced.  If anyone can share their knowledge in the area of protective UV film, we could all use a lesson here. 

 

Thank you,

 

Jeffrey Durst
Education & Interpretation Specialist
The Alliance for Historic Hillsborough
150 E. King St.
Hillsborough, NC  27278
www.historichillsborough.org
919-732-7741
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Danita Fleck Senior Business Analyst Sales Business Systems Altera Corporation 101 Innovation Drive, Mail Stop 1305 San Jose, CA 95134 408-544-8136 voice mail 408-348-8446 mobile 408-544-6412 fax [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Dawn Scher Thomae [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 12:25 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Museums in airports and malls Besides the Milwaukee airport, which other U.S. airports (or malls) have museums or museum extensions? Dawn Scher Thomae Milwaukee Public 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] . 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The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). ========================================================================Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 13:33:13 -0800 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Danita Fleck <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Museums in airports and malls MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain The San Francisco airport has a large San Francisco Museum of Modern Art gift shop. Danita Fleck Senior Business Analyst Sales Business Systems Altera Corporation 101 Innovation Drive, Mail Stop 1305 San Jose, CA 95134 408-544-8136 voice mail 408-348-8446 mobile 408-544-6412 fax [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Dawn Scher Thomae [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 12:25 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Museums in airports and malls Besides the Milwaukee airport, which other U.S. airports (or malls) have museums or museum extensions? Dawn Scher Thomae Milwaukee Public 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] . 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The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). ========================================================================Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:41:59 -0600 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Brian Shay <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Museums in airports and malls In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Dawn, I'm not sure if it is still up or not, but about a year ago the Silent Wings Museum (WWII Gliders) had a small area in the Lubbock International Airport in Lubbock, TX. Brian Shay on 2/26/03 2:25 PM Dawn Scher Thomae typeth: > Besides the Milwaukee airport, which other U.S. airports (or malls) have > museums or museum extensions? > Dawn Scher Thomae > Milwaukee Public 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). ========================================================================Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 13:45:36 -0800 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Andrew Schuricht <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Museums in airports and malls MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii LAX has temporary exhibition space that is managed by the Los Angeles Office of Cultural Affairs (who might be easier to converse with than an airport). They can be reached at: Cultural Affairs Department City of Los Angeles 433 S. Spring St. 10th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90013 (213) 473-7700 http://www.culturela.org/ =====================================Andrew Schuricht Consultant, Las Vegas Springs Preserve Project Las Vegas Valley Water District ========================================================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] . 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Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C2DDDE.E694B9E0 Content-Type: text/plain I attended a session on this topic a number of years ago at a SEMC meeting, I think in Norfolk. As I remember, there was a representative speaking from a Virginia state film office who worked to promote filming in Virginia. And, I believe someone from the Valentine Museum in Richmond and Old Salem in North Carolina who spoke about their experiences in renting out their space. Sorry, I don't remember any of the names of the people on the panel. -----Original Message----- From: Alicia Schatteman [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 3:21 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: film question We have been approached to use one of our historic house museums for a four day film shoot. It is a small budget student film, not a commercial venture. I was wondering if other museums have policies with regards to filming and photographing, if you would be interested in sharing your policy with me. Thanks! Alicia Schatteman, Executive Director The Montclair Historical Society 108 Orange Road, Montclair, NJ 07042 973-744-1796 http://www.montclairhistorical.org/ [log in to unmask] ========================================================= 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] . 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I attended a session on this topic a number of years ago at a SEMC meeting, I think in Norfolk.  As I remember, there was a representative speaking from a Virginia state film office who worked to promote filming in Virginia.  And, I believe someone from the Valentine Museum in Richmond and Old Salem in North Carolina who spoke about their experiences in renting out their space.

 

Sorry, I don't remember any of the names of the people on the panel.

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Subject: film question

We have been approached to use one of our historic house museums for a four day film shoot.  It is a small budget student film, not a commercial venture.  I was wondering if other museums have policies with regards to filming and photographing, if you would be interested in sharing your policy with me.  Thanks!

 

Alicia Schatteman, Executive Director
The Montclair Historical Society
108 Orange Road, Montclair, NJ 07042
973-744-1796
http://www.montclairhistorical.org/
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Bray Director of Education Texarkana Museums System 903-793-4831 [log in to unmask] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dawn Scher Thomae" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 2:25 PM Subject: Museums in airports and malls > Besides the Milwaukee airport, which other U.S. airports (or malls) have > museums or museum extensions? > Dawn Scher Thomae > Milwaukee Public 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] . 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Since I don't have an email address for the individual asking for help, the most direct way to respond would be to the Oregon list at: [log in to unmask] Thanks Lucy Sperlin The Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center, in Old Town - Portland, is interested in learning from other heritage organizations in the state who have implemented the individual donor and membership modules of Past Perfect. Its easy to get data into the program, for both collections and fundraising, but we are running into difficulties retrieving data regarding donor gifts and in the generation of donor acknowledgments from both annual giving and for a capital campaign we are trying to manage with the program. What is the experience of the field? Do you have stories, good or bad, in using this part of Past Perfect? Does someone out there really understand this part of the program? And are they willing to mentor a sister heritage organization? Any and all advise and help is appreciated. Thank you. 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The Honolulu International Airport has a Museum of Flight which is actually more of a gift shop but they do have some interesting exhibits of aviation history in the Pacific.  Two other museums here also have extensions in other places, although not in a mall or airport. 

The Bishop Museum www.bishopmuseum.org has done a beautiful "smaller version" at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Hotel.  The Contemporary Museum www.tcmhi.org has a gallery at the First Hawaiian Bank in downtown Honolulu.

Dawn K. Krause

Development Director

Mission Houses Museum

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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). ========================================================================Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 16:49:51 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Wade Lawrence <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: UV Window Film? In-Reply-To: <000901c2ddd8$ede557a0$5c522840@ess> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable We investigated various UV films and concluded that there are no films that can be safely applied to historic glass and can be easily removed when it is time to replace the film (typically 10-15 years). We opted, instead, for film attached to spring-loaded roller shades. It was a painful decision, as the roller shades are not invisible and do cause a small amount of damage for the mounting hardware. The trade-off, however, is that the rollers are easy to replace without tools and without further damage to the historic fabric. Now, about 9 months after installation, we are happy with our decision -- our visitors hardly notice the film, and we actually use our experience to explain to our visitors what measures are necessary to preserve historic fabric in a historic building. -- Wade Lawrence Assistant Director, Drayton Hall A National Trust historic site http://www.draytonhall.org [log in to unmask] *********************************** Join Friends of Drayton Hall for free admission, museum shop discounts, Preservation magazine, and more — and you’ll help preserve America’s finest Georgian-Palladian building. Join or renew online at http://www.draytonhall.org/membership . > A local museum is exploring options for installing UV film on its > windows to protect its collection.  They are curious to hear about > other museums' experiences deciding what film is most appropriate.  > Some of the the museum's criteria is that it be non-visible, can be > removed without leaving a trace, safe for historic glass, and of > course, reasonably priced.  If anyone can share their knowledge in the > area of protective UV film, we could all use a lesson here.  ========================================================= 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). 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The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). ========================================================================Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:14:25 -0600 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Greg Hansel <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Museums in airports and malls Comments: To: Dawn Scher Thomae <[log in to unmask]> In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Museums in the Fox valley in Mall settings are: The Fox Valley Children's Museum is located in the Aveune Mall, Appleton Wisconsin 100 W College Av Appleton, Wisconsin 54914, (920) 734-3226 (It also includes the Bubolz Doll Museum) The Military Veteran's Museum is in the Oshkosh City Center, which is a mall/office building currently but was a tradional mall until recently. 245 City Center Oshkosh, (920) 426-8615 Hope this helps. Greg Hansel Quoting Dawn Scher Thomae <[log in to unmask]>: > Besides the Milwaukee airport, which other U.S. airports (or malls) have > museums or museum extensions? > Dawn Scher Thomae > Milwaukee Public 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). > ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 20:34:53 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Valerie Pawlewicz <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Museums in airports and malls In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit The Smithsonian Institution is creating an extension of the National Air and Space Museum at Dulles Airport. Valerie Pawlewicz > From: Dawn Scher Thomae <[log in to unmask]> > Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:25:05 -0600 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Museums in airports and malls > > Besides the Milwaukee airport, which other U.S. airports (or malls) have > museums or museum extensions? > Dawn Scher Thomae > Milwaukee Public 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] . 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Unfortunately, I don't have any contact info right off hand. -Chris Godbold Assistant Curator Heritage Farmstead Museum Plano, TX _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pagežatures/junkmail ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 20:19:49 -0600 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Chris Godbold <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Museums in airports and malls Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed I must correct my earlier post. The museum is actually called the American Airpower Heritage Museum. Its website is www.airpowermuseum.org. The Commemorative Air Force or CAF supports the museum and its members restore and fly vintage airplanes, mostly from WWII. 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MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0340_01C2DDF0.F8C53B00" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0340_01C2DDF0.F8C53B00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable please post the information on the list or send to me thank you ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeffrey Durst To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 3:52 PM Subject: UV Window Film? A local museum is exploring options for installing UV film on its windows to protect its collection. They are curious to hear about other museums' experiences deciding what film is most appropriate. Some of the the museum's criteria is that it be non-visible, can be removed without leaving a trace, safe for historic glass, and of course, reasonably priced. If anyone can share their knowledge in the area of protective UV film, we could all use a lesson here. 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please post the information on the list or send to me

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A local museum is exploring options for installing UV film on its windows to protect its collection.  They are curious to hear about other museums' experiences deciding what film is most appropriate.  Some of the the museum's criteria is that it be non-visible, can be removed without leaving a trace, safe for historic glass, and of course, reasonably priced.  If anyone can share their knowledge in the area of protective UV film, we could all use a lesson here. 

 

Thank you,

 

Jeffrey Durst
Education & Interpretation Specialist
The Alliance for Historic Hillsborough
150 E. King St.
Hillsborough, NC  27278
www.historichillsborough.org
919-732-7741
fax 919-732-2266

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Please do not respond directly to me. 

 

I am writing as a favor for a colleague who is looking to borrow a particular print for an exhibition she is organizing for Copia:  The American Center for Wine, Food, and the Arts.  The exhibition, entitled Salad Dressing, will explore the art, fashion, and culture of clothing that looks like food, as well as artists’ use of real foodstuffs to adorn the body.  Salad Dressing will feature approximately 100 objects drawn from public and private collections in America and Europe, and will run from September 19, 2003-January 5, 2004.  A small catalogue will accompany the exhibition.

 

The object she would like to locate is:

 

Title:  Salvador Dali

Artist: George Platt Lynes, American, 1907-1955

Date Label:     1939/1941

Medium: Gelatin silver print

Description:    Frontal view of a nude female torso, strategically covered by a lobster.  Dapperly-dressed gentleman (Dali) at lower right behind nude embraces her legs.

Dimensions: Sheet: 10 x 8 in.(25.4 x 20.3 cm) Image: 9 1/8 x 7 1/8 in.(23.3 x 18.1 cm)

 

Copia will, of course, be responsible for all packing and transport costs connected with the loan, as well as nail-to-nail insurance.  The exhibition will be mounted in the museum’s main gallery, which meets current museum environmental standards.  Copia should be able to accommodate any specific conditions for the exhibition environment.  A facilities report is available upon request.

 

Please respond to Melissa Leventon, 17 Carl St., San Francisco, CA  94117, phone/fax:  415-664-5824, [log in to unmask]

 

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Barbara C.  Abrams
Curatrix Group
1753 NW Aspen Avenue
Portland, OR 97210

 

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Alicia,

 

We have a written Media Guidelines and license agreement that we ask production companies, filmmakers, and news producers to sign. It outlines what they can and cannot do, from restricted areas to bringing their own power packs to where they may eat lunch in our building.  Would you like a copy?

 

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Rhode Island Historical Society
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Providence RI 02906
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We have been approached to use one of our historic house museums for a four day film shoot.  It is a small budget student film, not a commercial venture.  I was wondering if other museums have policies with regards to filming and photographing, if you would be interested in sharing your policy with me.  Thanks!

 

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We have a manlift. We have a 2-story Great Hall with hanging light fixtures. But, our building manager doesn't like the lift, so lights still are not changed on a regular basis. He will wait until a number of them are out. Re: the ladder -- saying the words: "liability", "disability", "negligence", "willful disregard for worker safety", "court", and "lawyers" should convince that it is better to budget for a regular rental of a lift. ---Amy ------------------------------ Look, I have ONE job on this lousy ship. It's STUPID, but I'm gonna do it, OKAY? - Gwen DeMarco in _Galaxy Quest_ ========================================================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). 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The Commons Mall in Columbus is actually pretty unique; one part is a traditional downtown retail mall, the other part is a space run by the Parks Department and houses an indoor playground and several other arts organization offices. The website: www.imacg.org Melissa Washburn Exhibitions Coordinator/Project Assistant Indianapolis Museum of Art 4000 Michigan Road Indianapolis, Indiana 46208 phone (317) 923-1331 x287 fax (317) 931-1978 ========================================================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] . 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And these have a whole new set of issues, post-Sept 11 which have already forced the Santa Monica museum to close and start to find a new space. As for museums IN airports-- I'm guessing you mean displays that travelers can look at while they travel? I love them-- when you have a long lay-over, you can spend like a big hunk of time in these exhibits and learn something. Cause you can only hang out in the airport shops so long. These are rarely museums, but normally a display mounted by a local museum (San Francisco has a "airport museum authority" or something like that- remember they posted a job here about a month ago). Often they are about the history of the airport or aviation in that area, but sometimes they are on other subjects. In addition to the ones listed already, here are the ones I can think of: Minneapolis (MN aviation history) Washington National (the airport and the history of the site) Baltimore-Washington International (mounted by NASM) As for malls, the only one I can think of is the former Air Force Flight Test Center Museum at Edwards AFB. Now it is in a nice new building, although it is probably still closed to the public since it's on base, but in its previous home it was a store front on the base's strip mall, right in between the PX, barber shop, laundromat and such. Always found it strange. ========================================================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). 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Kirby" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Museums in airports and malls MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Chris is right about the Air Power Heritage Museum in Midland, but there are also 3 others in Texas. One, The Frontiers of Flight Museum, www.flightmuseum.org in the terminal at Love Field, Dallas, the home of Southwest Air Lines, has recently had a ground breaking to move to new facilities by Dec., '03 to a building on the Love Field grounds, but with more room than is available in the terminal. This museum has its origins in a collection given to the University of Texas at Dallas which is located north of Dallas in Richardson, near Plano, about 15-20 northeast of Love Field. In Galveston, on the grounds of the local airport, in a hanger is the Lone Star Flight Museum www.lsfm.org . I do not know if it is in the terminal, but this museum does include the Texas Aviation Hall of Fame and numerous old airplanes. The smallest one I know of is the Flight of the Phoenix Museum in Gilmer TX. www.flightofthephoenix . While this museum is at a small municipal airport, there is no standard hours of operation. Rather two local owners will great the visitors by appointment. Have a good day. Mary L. Kirby On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:25:05 -0600 Dawn Scher Thomae <[log in to unmask]> writes: > Besides the Milwaukee airport, which other U.S. airports (or malls) > have > museums or museum extensions? > Dawn Scher Thomae > Milwaukee Public 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] . 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And these have a whole new set of issues, post-Sept 11 which have already forced the Santa Monica museum to close and start to find a new space. As for museums IN airports-- I'm guessing you mean displays that travelers can look at while they travel? I love them-- when you have a long lay-over, you can spend like a big hunk of time in these exhibits and learn something. Cause you can only hang out in the airport shops so long. These are rarely museums, but normally a display mounted by a local museum (San Francisco has a "airport museum authority" or something like that- remember they posted a job here about a month ago). Often they are about the history of the airport or aviation in that area, but sometimes they are on other subjects. In addition to the ones listed already, here are the ones I can think of: Minneapolis (MN aviation history) Washington National (the airport and the history of the site) Baltimore-Washington International (mounted by NASM) As for malls, the only one I can think of is the former Air Force Flight Test Center Museum at Edwards AFB. Now it is in a nice new building, although it is probably still closed to the public since it's on base, but in its previous home it was a store front on the base's strip mall, right in between the PX, barber shop, laundromat and such. Always found it strange- but well worth the visit. Pamela Feltus ========================================================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). 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We were recently contacted by a gentleman in Natchez, MS who has a complete coffee roasting set of equipment that he wants to find a home for.  The still functioning equipment consists of a 600lb. (yes, that is 600) Burns-Jabez Roaster (patented 1915); Gump No. 66 grinder, conveyer, and air lift system, SirFlex Cooler, Jabez-Burns mixer, automated bagger, Spee Dee dumper, Champion air compressor and scales.  The items are very large which is the main reason we are unable to accept the equipment, but are in good condition.  It is very interesting if you have the correct setting for it.  If you are interested, please contact me and I will give you his information.  

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Cindy Gardner, Registrar
Old Capitol Museum of Mississippi History
P.O. Box 571
Jackson, MS 39205-0571
Telephone: 601/359-6930
Facsimile: 601/359-6981
Email: [log in to unmask]

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Cindy Gardner, Registrar
Old Capitol Museum of Mississippi History
P.O. Box 571
Jackson, MS 39205-0571
Telephone: 601/359-6930
Facsimile: 601/359-6981
Email: [log in to unmask]

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Old Capitol Museum
PO Box 571
Jackson, MS 39205-0571
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All we do is run it through a laser printer and cut out the individual labels and stick them directly to the wall. When you finish with them, we simply pull them right off. If they leave any adhesive on the wall we just lightly sand or use 'Goo Gone'. We usually have them up for about 3 months. The film is clear (usually with a matt finish) so to show off the lettering and not the label, etc. For other literature or lettering that tends to be larger than would fit on the 81/2 by 11 paper we go with vinyl wall text. If you have other questions and if this is what you are looking for-let me know. Brook -- Brook Greene Program Assistant Turchin Center for the Visual Arts ASU Box 32139 733 Rivers Street Boone, NC 28608 (828) 262-3017 Gallery (828) 262-6370 Fax On 2/27/03 10:31 AM, "Gretchen Kriner" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > A recent construction project provided the art center where I work with new > gallery space. The walls in our old galleries were covered in > fabric. When we needed to attach information about a work of art to the > walls we used velcro as the "adhesive." However, the walls of our new > galleries are just painted drywall. We thought we might attach the > literature to the walls using temporary mounting putty, but that leaves an > oily stain behind after it is removed. I think this would be difficult to > paint over as the oil stain might seep through. I am concerned that scotch > tape would either remove paint or leave adhesive residue behind. And while > we don't have a choice as far as attaching the art to the wall, we'd like > to avoid puncturing the wall for attaching literature. The more patching > and painting there is, the shorter the aesthetic life span of the drywall > (not to mention that excess repair work requires more time and > manpower). What might we use to temporarily adhere literature to the walls > that would not damage the paint and/or drywall? Would a Filmoplast product > be serviceable? Is there a better option/product that I am unaware of? Or > is damage to the wall something we just have to live with? By the way, the > paint used on the drywall is of the latex variety. It has a very flat > finish and is taupe colored. > > Gretchen Kriner > Exhibitions Volunteer > Fitton Center for Creative Arts > Hamilton, OH > > ========================================================> 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] . 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The pole changers are available from industrial suppliers such as C & H distributors. Their catalog is worth having as these folks are a great source of much equipment including carts with pneumatic tires and a variety of shelving.

 

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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). --=_7F20124B.77163B6C-- ========================================================================Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:40:46 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Audra Oliver <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: film question Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=_BFE0D288.E485A8F9" This is a MIME message. If you are reading this text, you may want to consider changing to a mail reader or gateway that understands how to properly handle MIME multipart messages. --=_BFE0D288.E485A8F9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Around 10 - 15 years ago the woman who was then the director of the Western Museums Conference had developed guidelines for filming in museums. This went into great detail about what to watch for and what to be sure was covered in the contract. ========================================================= 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). --=_BFE0D288.E485A8F9 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: HTML

Around 10 - 15 years ago the woman who was then the director of the Western Museums Conference had developed guidelines for filming in museums. This went into great detail about what to watch for and what to be sure was covered in the contract.

 

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Bellvue Art Museum (Washington state) used to be located in a Mall. Pacific Northwest Arts and Crafts had a sales gallery affiliated with a mall I believe.

 

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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). --=_613E0C29.6F0E2373-- ========================================================================Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:20:04 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: film question MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Alicia, Below is Cape Fear Museum's filming policy. I would suggest that even though it is a student film, "train 'em up right" by enforcing your standards. I would hope they will remember their training when they are making "big budget" films. Good luck! Tim REGULATIONS FOR FILMING AT CAPE FEAR MUSEUM September 1995 1. Cape Fear Museum (CFM) collects, preserves and interprets objects relating to the history, science and cultures of the Lower Cape Fear, and makes those objects and their interpretation available to the public through educational exhibitions and programs. Filming is a privilege and courtesy extended to the Wilmington filming community in order to provide support for the industry. 2. Permission for filming at CFM may be granted if the production will not hinder operations or prohibit the general public from visiting and enjoying the collections and exhibitions. Generally, filming will be permitted only on Mondays or other periods when the facilities are closed to general public use. 3. Actual costs incurred by CFM will be billed following filming, and will include security and employee service charges, administrative overhead and charges for any special cleaning or repair work required for the building, grounds, or collection items as a result of filming activity. Any staff members assigned to the film company will be dedicated to the company during the company's stay at the museum. Each unlocked door will be monitored by a security officer. 4. On occasion, filming of exteriors at CFM may be permitted on weekdays when the museum is open, provided the film company understands that the public must not be hindered from visiting the museum. 5. While every effort will be made to accommodate film companies on short notice, it is suggested that reservations for filming dates be made as much in advance as possible. Because the periods available for filming are limited, CFM cannot always oblige last-minute requests. 6. A script must be submitted, with all final shooting scenes and production schedules for CFM noted, prior to granting permission to film. The purpose of the review is to determine the impact the scenes to be filmed at CFM would have on its operations. 7. A walk-through with all necessary parties (CFM representative, location manager, first assistant director, director, producer, etc.) must be scheduled as far in advance as possible; a 2-week advance walk-through is advised. Immediately after the walk-through, the film company is expected to supply CFM with a written outline of the specific areas they wish to use, as well as building access and parking needs. 8. At CFM, there is no power available; the film company must provide its own electrical sources for equipment. 9. CFM will under no circumstances turn off its HVAC system for filming. 10. In all exhibition areas of CFM, there are lighting restrictions. The curator's presence may be required, and his/her judgment must be heeded. Generally, light must be no more than 80 footcandles in intensity, and all lights must have UV filter gels placed on them. While filming lights may be safe for humans, they do not meet the requirements for fragile collection items (UV filter gels eliminate 70% more UV rays). 11. Any changes to CFM lighting will be handled by museum personnel. An exhibit worker will be on duty during the film company's use of the building. 12. Limited set dressing may be permitted; however, the film company may not move or remove existing cases and exhibits from their places in galleries. The moving of anything in the galleries must be agreed upon in advance and will be done by CFM staff. All set dressing must be approved in advance by the CFM representative. Nothing is to be attached to existing museum walls or structures. TAPE MAY NOT BE APPLIED TO WALLS. Anything brought in for set dressing must be removed by the film crew following filming. Fogging and smoke machines are not permitted. 13. If the film company wants to enter CFM exhibition vignettes for any reason, there shall be a curatorial person assigned. 14. If the film company wants the telephones to be turned off (to prevent the interference of ringing) during filming, it must make such arrangements in advance. 15. Filming will be limited to public areas of CFM. 16. The film company must state the size of crew and number of talent; number of equipment and support vehicles; and names of key personnel to be present on filming day. The film company personnel are expected to exercise extreme care when in the exhibition areas. Lounging, sitting or standing on any exhibit structure, furniture, case, etc. is strictly forbidden. The film company shall use only the areas specified in writing and will not be permitted to use other areas for gathering or feeding personnel. 17. Smoking, food and drink are not allowed within CFM. 18. CFM cannot provide extensive parking. At CFM, generator and some equipment trucks may be parked in the west, south and/or east parking lots; parking for other vehicles may be found as space allows. No more than 80 spaces are available. All planned use of parking lots must be specified in advance. 19. CFM reserves the right to document, by still photographs, any film shoot occurring on its property. The photographs will be placed in the museum's files for archival purposes, and any publication use of them will be cleared in advance with the representative for the film company. 20. If possible, the film company will provide the museum with a videotape copy of the production (television series, commercial, etc.) filmed at CFM. It will be used strictly for archival purposes; any public screening of such videotapes will be cleared in advance with the representative for the film company. 21. For further information, please contact: Ruth Haas, Director, Cape Fear Museum, 814 Market Street, Wilmington, NC 28401; phone: 910-341-4350; FAX: 910-341-4037. Timothy S. Bottoms · Registrar · Cape Fear Museum · 814 Market Street · Wilmington, North Carolina 28401-4731 · 910.341.4350 x 3011 · 910.341.4037 (fax) · [log in to unmask] Alicia Schatteman [log in to unmask] ORICAL.ORG> cc: (bcc: archive) Sent by: Museum discussion Subject: film question list <[log in to unmask] COM> 02/26/2003 03:20 PM Please respond to Museum discussion list We have been approached to use one of our historic house museums for a four day film shoot. It is a small budget student film, not a commercial venture. I was wondering if other museums have policies with regards to filming and photographing, if you would be interested in sharing your policy with me. Thanks! 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The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). ========================================================================Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:44:01 -0700 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: [log in to unmask] Subject: Museums in airports & malls MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Dear Listers: The Mesa Southwest Museum and the Arizona Museum for Youth, both located in Mesa, AZ have storefront exhibits in the Fiesta Mall, also located in Mesa, AZ. Although technically these storefront exhibits are not "museums" they do provide an excellent marketing tool for us. Gerri Green Development Officer Mesa Southwest Museum 53 North Macdonald Street Mesa, AZ 85201 Phone: 480.644.5833 Fax: 480.644.3424 [log in to unmask] ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:13:06 -0800 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Melissa Wraalstad <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: film question Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Dear Alicia, We just got done working with a film crew from a public television station. Although I didn't work with the crew directly, I do know what we did. Fortunately, the crew was very dedicated and willing to work with us. I agree with others on this list that stated you need set boundaries upfront on what they can and cannot do, what can and cannot be filmed, etc. Also, find out as much about the project as possible before you agree to anything. Make sure you agree with the intent behind the filming before letting them do it. Ask them, what kind of student film is this going to be? Is it to showcase the museum? Is it to use the museum as a background setting? Is it a short movie? Documentary? We received an outline of what the crew wanted to do and where they wanted to do it. I know working with a student is different than working with a professional crew, but they should still be able to provide you with a basic outline of what they want to do. We also had one member of the staff with them at (nearly) all times. That removed that person from their regular duties, yes, but it was to our benefit to make sure that the film crew had a museum liaison. We tried, as much as possible, to make sure it was the same person with them for each visit. That person was then able to answer questions about the museum, in addition to providing supervision to the film crew. Sincerely, Melissa Wraalstad, Special Events Coordinator Old World Wisconsin S103 W37890 Hwy. 67, Eagle, WI 53149 262-594-6309 [log in to unmask] ---Original Message------------------ We have been approached to use one of our historic house museums for a four day film shoot. It is a small budget student film, not a commercial venture. I was wondering if other museums have policies with regards to filming and photographing, if you would be interested in sharing your policy with me. Thanks! Alicia Schatteman, Executive Director The Montclair Historical Society 108 Orange Road, Montclair, NJ 07042 973-744-1796 http://www.montclairhistorical.org/ [log in to unmask] On Wisconsin! Get your free University of Wisconsin alumni e-mail at http://uwalumni.com ========================================================Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . 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Any film crew should be required to obtain their OWN release for showing items that are covered by copywrite and not owned by the Museum. We ran afoul of that when a film crew hired by the Museum to create a promo video to sell in the Museum store included a 6 second shot (out of 25 minutes) of an exhibit with a copywrited photo. Luckily the photographer was someone we have a long standing relationship with so he was gentle but it could have been a very expensive mistake. Very good training for a student film crew to have to obtain those authorizations (and find out how long it takes!) or figure out how to shoot around the particular item! Randy Heise Information Systems Manager The High Desert Museum 59800 South Highway 97 Bend, OR 97702-7963 (541) 382-4754 Ext. 244 (541) 382-5256 Facsimile [log in to unmask] www.highdesertmuseum.org -----Original Message----- From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 5:20 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: film question Alicia, Below is Cape Fear Museum's filming policy. I would suggest that even though it is a student film, "train 'em up right" by enforcing your standards. I would hope they will remember their training when they are making "big budget" films. Good luck! Tim REGULATIONS FOR FILMING AT CAPE FEAR MUSEUM September 1995 1. Cape Fear Museum (CFM) collects, preserves and interprets objects relating to the history, science and cultures of the Lower Cape Fear, and makes those objects and their interpretation available to the public through educational exhibitions and programs. Filming is a privilege and courtesy extended to the Wilmington filming community in order to provide support for the industry. 2. Permission for filming at CFM may be granted if the production will not hinder operations or prohibit the general public from visiting and enjoying the collections and exhibitions. Generally, filming will be permitted only on Mondays or other periods when the facilities are closed to general public use. 3. Actual costs incurred by CFM will be billed following filming, and will include security and employee service charges, administrative overhead and charges for any special cleaning or repair work required for the building, grounds, or collection items as a result of filming activity. Any staff members assigned to the film company will be dedicated to the company during the company's stay at the museum. Each unlocked door will be monitored by a security officer. 4. On occasion, filming of exteriors at CFM may be permitted on weekdays when the museum is open, provided the film company understands that the public must not be hindered from visiting the museum. 5. While every effort will be made to accommodate film companies on short notice, it is suggested that reservations for filming dates be made as much in advance as possible. Because the periods available for filming are limited, CFM cannot always oblige last-minute requests. 6. A script must be submitted, with all final shooting scenes and production schedules for CFM noted, prior to granting permission to film. The purpose of the review is to determine the impact the scenes to be filmed at CFM would have on its operations. 7. A walk-through with all necessary parties (CFM representative, location manager, first assistant director, director, producer, etc.) must be scheduled as far in advance as possible; a 2-week advance walk-through is advised. Immediately after the walk-through, the film company is expected to supply CFM with a written outline of the specific areas they wish to use, as well as building access and parking needs. 8. At CFM, there is no power available; the film company must provide its own electrical sources for equipment. 9. CFM will under no circumstances turn off its HVAC system for filming. 10. In all exhibition areas of CFM, there are lighting restrictions. The curator's presence may be required, and his/her judgment must be heeded. Generally, light must be no more than 80 footcandles in intensity, and all lights must have UV filter gels placed on them. While filming lights may be safe for humans, they do not meet the requirements for fragile collection items (UV filter gels eliminate 70% more UV rays). 11. Any changes to CFM lighting will be handled by museum personnel. An exhibit worker will be on duty during the film company's use of the building. 12. Limited set dressing may be permitted; however, the film company may not move or remove existing cases and exhibits from their places in galleries. The moving of anything in the galleries must be agreed upon in advance and will be done by CFM staff. All set dressing must be approved in advance by the CFM representative. Nothing is to be attached to existing museum walls or structures. TAPE MAY NOT BE APPLIED TO WALLS. Anything brought in for set dressing must be removed by the film crew following filming. Fogging and smoke machines are not permitted. 13. If the film company wants to enter CFM exhibition vignettes for any reason, there shall be a curatorial person assigned. 14. If the film company wants the telephones to be turned off (to prevent the interference of ringing) during filming, it must make such arrangements in advance. 15. Filming will be limited to public areas of CFM. 16. The film company must state the size of crew and number of talent; number of equipment and support vehicles; and names of key personnel to be present on filming day. The film company personnel are expected to exercise extreme care when in the exhibition areas. Lounging, sitting or standing on any exhibit structure, furniture, case, etc. is strictly forbidden. The film company shall use only the areas specified in writing and will not be permitted to use other areas for gathering or feeding personnel. 17. Smoking, food and drink are not allowed within CFM. 18. CFM cannot provide extensive parking. At CFM, generator and some equipment trucks may be parked in the west, south and/or east parking lots; parking for other vehicles may be found as space allows. No more than 80 spaces are available. All planned use of parking lots must be specified in advance. 19. CFM reserves the right to document, by still photographs, any film shoot occurring on its property. The photographs will be placed in the museum's files for archival purposes, and any publication use of them will be cleared in advance with the representative for the film company. 20. If possible, the film company will provide the museum with a videotape copy of the production (television series, commercial, etc.) filmed at CFM. It will be used strictly for archival purposes; any public screening of such videotapes will be cleared in advance with the representative for the film company. 21. For further information, please contact: Ruth Haas, Director, Cape Fear Museum, 814 Market Street, Wilmington, NC 28401; phone: 910-341-4350; FAX: 910-341-4037. Timothy S. Bottoms · Registrar · Cape Fear Museum · 814 Market Street · Wilmington, North Carolina 28401-4731 · 910.341.4350 x 3011 · 910.341.4037 (fax) · [log in to unmask] Alicia Schatteman [log in to unmask] ORICAL.ORG> cc: (bcc: archive) Sent by: Museum discussion Subject: film question list <[log in to unmask] COM> 02/26/2003 03:20 PM Please respond to Museum discussion list We have been approached to use one of our historic house museums for a four day film shoot. It is a small budget student film, not a commercial venture. I was wondering if other museums have policies with regards to filming and photographing, if you would be interested in sharing your policy with me. Thanks! 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The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). ========================================================================Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:46:14 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Julie Carpenter <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Museums in airports and malls In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit College Park Maryland has a small airport (world's oldest continuously operated airport) with an aviation museum on-site http://www.avialantic.com/collpark.html Julie Carpenter DC Heritage Tourism Coalition www.dcheritage.org > -----Original Message----- > From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On > Behalf Of Dawn Scher Thomae > Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 3:25 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Museums in airports and malls > > > Besides the Milwaukee airport, which other U.S. airports (or malls) have > museums or museum extensions? > Dawn Scher Thomae > Milwaukee Public Museum > > ========================================================> Important Subscriber Information: > > The Museum-L FAQ file is located at > http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . 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The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). ========================================================================Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 12:45:14 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Nikkie Cooper <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Museums in airports and malls the Howard W. Cannon Aviation Museum is part of the Clark County Museums- it is housed at the McCarran International Airport and their number is (702) 455-7968. The director is Mark Hall-Patton. Nikkie Cooper Curator Fort Morgan Museum Fort Morgan, CO ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:31:20 -0800 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Ron Fellows <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Egyptian Exhibits MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Greetings all: The Eternal Egypt exhibit leaves Minneapolis March 16 and opens at the Field Museum in Chicago April 26, and then on to the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore on September 21. Are there any other Egyptian exhibits traveling the US? What museums and when? Please! 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The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). ========================================================================Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:51:06 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: "Meyersburg, David (PEB)" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Exhibit installation question MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable For short-term use, you should consider a double-sided tape product, made by 3M, with a standard "810" tape adhesive on one side (goes on your document), and "812" adhesive on the other. The "812" adhesive is what is used on post-it notes. I believe the tape is sold only on 3" center cores- for large dispensers, and in several widths. I don't have a current 3M catalog, but a local distributor should be able to accommodate your request. It isn't particularly expensive stuff, either. Dave Meyersburg New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Chief of Historic Sites Exhibits Peebles Island Resource Center Waterford, New York 12188-0209 518/237-8643 extension 3228 -----Original Message----- From: Gretchen Kriner [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 10:32 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Exhibit installation question A recent construction project provided the art center where I work with new gallery space. The walls in our old galleries were covered in fabric. When we needed to attach information about a work of art to the walls we used velcro as the "adhesive." However, the walls of our new galleries are just painted drywall. We thought we might attach the literature to the walls using temporary mounting putty, but that leaves an oily stain behind after it is removed. I think this would be difficult to paint over as the oil stain might seep through. I am concerned that scotch tape would either remove paint or leave adhesive residue behind. And while we don't have a choice as far as attaching the art to the wall, we'd like to avoid puncturing the wall for attaching literature. The more patching and painting there is, the shorter the aesthetic life span of the drywall (not to mention that excess repair work requires more time and manpower). What might we use to temporarily adhere literature to the walls that would not damage the paint and/or drywall? Would a Filmoplast product be serviceable? Is there a better option/product that I am unaware of? Or is damage to the wall something we just have to live with? By the way, the paint used on the drywall is of the latex variety. It has a very flat finish and is taupe colored. Gretchen Kriner Exhibitions Volunteer Fitton Center for Creative Arts Hamilton, OH ========================================================= 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). ========================================================= 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). ========================================================================Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 13:38:21 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Brigid Nuta <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Museums in airports and malls MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Actually, our website is www.collegeparkaviationmuseum.com. We are on the grounds of the College Park Airport, and our mission is to interpret its history. Celebrate the Centennial of Flight! Brigid Nuta Public Programs College Park Aviation Museum In a message dated 2/27/2003 11:46:14 AM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: > > > College Park Maryland has a small airport (world's oldest > continuously > operated airport) with an aviation museum on-site > http://www.avialantic.com/collpark.html > > Julie Carpenter > DC Heritage Tourism Coalition > www.dcheritage.org ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 12:57:45 -0600 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Dawn Scher Thomae <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Egyptian Exhibits MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Ron: The Milwaukee Public Museum will be hosting "The Quest for Immortality" Egyptian exhibit March through August 2004. Dawn Scher Thomae Milwaukee Public Museum -----Original Message----- From: Ron Fellows [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 12:31 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Egyptian Exhibits Greetings all: The Eternal Egypt exhibit leaves Minneapolis March 16 and opens at the Field Museum in Chicago April 26, and then on to the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore on September 21. Are there any other Egyptian exhibits traveling the US? What museums and when? Please! Ron Fellows, CM, Associate Director The Heritage of the Americas 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). ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 13:43:42 -0600 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: "Brian D. Bisbee" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Wanted: Web site neophytes Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Greetings list members: Is your museum just beginning to branch out into the online world? Are you experiencing the heady joys of Web development project management for the first time? Would you like to share your experiences with your colleagues? If so, I'd like to hear from you. I'm looking for a presenter or two to round out a panel session for the Association of Midwest Museums Annual Meeting in Milwaukee in November. This panel session is tentatively titled "The Web Site Life Cycle: Building and Rebuilding." We will be exploring the changing nature of museum Web sites as they age. Various presenters will share their experiences with launching a museum's first site (that's you), maintaining a site "in the prime of life," and rehabilitating an old and overgrown site while preserving investments in existing content. Of particular interest to this session would be the experiences of those museum professionals from smaller institutions, and for whom Web development is only a fraction of regular job duties. If you are interested in joining the panel, please contact me on- or off-list. Thank you, Brian Brian D. Bisbee, Assistant Curator of Information Technologies Illinois State Museum -- Research & Collections Center 1011 E. Ash St., Springfield, IL 62703 Phone: (217) 557-6093 -- Fax: (217) 785-2857 ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 12:37:26 -0700 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: ed sharpe <[log in to unmask]> Organization: coury house / smecc Subject: Re: Egyptian Exhibits MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit perhaps it will come to Phoenix someday would love to see it! ed sharpe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dawn Scher Thomae" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 11:57 AM Subject: Re: Egyptian Exhibits > Ron: The Milwaukee Public Museum will be hosting "The Quest for > Immortality" Egyptian exhibit March through August 2004. > Dawn Scher Thomae > Milwaukee Public Museum > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ron Fellows [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 12:31 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Egyptian Exhibits > > > Greetings all: > > The Eternal Egypt exhibit leaves Minneapolis March 16 and opens at the > Field Museum in Chicago April 26, and then on to the Walters Art Museum > in Baltimore on September 21. > > Are there any other Egyptian exhibits traveling the US? What museums and > when? Please! > > Ron Fellows, CM, Associate Director > The Heritage of the Americas 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). > > ========================================================> 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). > > ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 13:48:56 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Julie Carpenter <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Egyptian Exhibits In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt started its US tour at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. It's schedule is: Museum of Science, Boston, November 20, 2002 - March 30, 2003 Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, May 4 - September 14, 2003 New Orleans Museum of Art, October 19, 2003 - February 25, 2004 Milwaukee Public Museum, March 28 - August 8, 2004 Denver Museum of Nature and Science, September 12, 2004 - January 23, 2005 Frist Center, Nashville, June 11 - October 9, 2006 Portland Museum of Art, November 5, 2006 - March 4, 2007 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, September 2 - December 31, 2007 More info on NGA website http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/ontour.htm Julie Carpenter DC Heritage Tourism Coalition www.dcheritage.org > -----Original Message----- > From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On > Behalf Of Ron Fellows > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 1:31 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Egyptian Exhibits > > > Greetings all: > > The Eternal Egypt exhibit leaves Minneapolis March 16 and opens at the > Field Museum in Chicago April 26, and then on to the Walters Art Museum > in Baltimore on September 21. > > Are there any other Egyptian exhibits traveling the US? What museums and > when? Please! > > Ron Fellows, CM, Associate Director > The Heritage of the Americas 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). ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 14:30:13 -0600 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: KU Entomology Museum <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Reference managers compatability MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hello all, I know this is possibly slightly off-topic, but I imagine that many of you maintain libraries with your collections. This question is for those of you who are versed (hopefully moreso than I) in reference manager programs. We are hoping at some point to be able to transfer data that has been entered over the years into Papyrus 7.0 into ProCite. Do any of you know, or have contacts that would know, how to merge these databases? Or possibly merge them to EndNote? Any help is very appreciated. Please reply off-list. Thanks, Brian Brian L. Beatty Interim Collection Manager Snow Entomology Collection, KU Natural History Museum 1460 Jayhawk Blvd. - Snow Hall University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045-7523 USA [log in to unmask] * 785.864.3034 ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:42:45 +0000 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Meagan Smith <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Masters in Museum Studies vs. MBA Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html

Hello all,

I have applied to graduate school for both Museum Studies and an MBA for this coming fall. As the deadline for making a decision comes closer, I am wondering how to make the best decision. I have a science background, and have worked for a non-profit for the past two years. I am interested in science education and felt Museum Studies would be a great option given that I am not interested in teaching in a traditional classroom setting. I also applied to some top-ten business schools, thinking that if Museum Studies programs did not work out I would try and pursue a more general degree and hopefully transition back into the non-profit and/or science field post-MBA.

My questions to this list are:
1.  How useful is an MBA in trying to pursue a career in the museum field? What advantages
would it give me over other potential job candidates?
2.  What advantages does a Museum Studies degree give a candidate that an MBA would not?

Thank you in advance.

I can be contacted off-list at [log in to unmask]

Meagan Smith

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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). ========================================================================Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 14:07:27 -0800 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Deb Fuller <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Soggy books MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi all, Due to the recent blizzard and then typhoon that we had here on the East Coast of the US, my basement flooded. I've got a lot of soggy books. Is there a way to dry them out so minimize the damage? These aren't valuable antiques but good reference books and some other books I've had for years that I'd like to keep. Thanks in advance! Deb P.S. And it's snowing...again *sigh* If I wanted this much snow, I would have moved to Rochester, NY. :) __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:11:33 -0600 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: "bill.mulligan" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Masters in Museum Studies vs. MBA Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit If you want to work as a museum educator, you will need training appropriate to that career goal -- i.e. a museum studies degree, with an emphasis in museum education if possible. I don't know of any museums that hire museum educators with an MBA rather than a museum/education related degree. William H. Mulligan, Jr. Professor of History Director, Forrest C. Pogue Public History Institute Murray State University Murray KY 42071-3341 270/762-6571 Fax 270/762-6587 ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:33:32 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Lisa Riopell <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Soggy books MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Good afternoon, Deb. I had a fire in my apartment several years ago and my books were soaked due to the amount of water used in an attempt to put the fire out. We got my books out of the rubble and placed them in "open" positions and ran several fans on them for 24/7 for three weeks. Periodically, I would change the pages the books were open to to help other pages dry. It is important to gently try to get the pages separated as it dries. It is also important to get them as dry as possible to help prevent mold. Most of my books made it-although the pages are many are now "wavy". I've heard that putting books in the freezer helps-but I've not tried that option! Best of luck! Lisa Riopell -----Original Message----- From: Deb Fuller [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 5:07 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Soggy books Hi all, Due to the recent blizzard and then typhoon that we had here on the East Coast of the US, my basement flooded. I've got a lot of soggy books. Is there a way to dry them out so minimize the damage? These aren't valuable antiques but good reference books and some other books I've had for years that I'd like to keep. Thanks in advance! Deb P.S. And it's snowing...again *sigh* If I wanted this much snow, I would have moved to Rochester, NY. :) __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ========================================================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). ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 14:21:56 -0800 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Andrew Schuricht <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Soggy books MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Perhaps this article can help: http://www.museum-security.org/drying-wet-books.html =====================================Andrew Schuricht Consultant, Las Vegas Springs Preserve Project Las Vegas Valley Water District ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:23:58 -0600 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: "bill.mulligan" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Soggy books Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Freeze drying is the best way to prevent damage to wet books - air drying, unless the books are just damp, will not prevent damage. Freeze the books ASAP -- blast freezing is best. The quicker they are frozen the less damage will be done. Contact a local taxidermist -- most of them have freeze dryers. You have about 48 hours, give or take, depending on the temperature, before mold and mildew will begin to appear. Good luck. William H. Mulligan, Jr. Professor of History Director, Forrest C. Pogue Public History Institute Murray State University Murray KY 42071-3341 270/762-6571 Fax 270/762-6587 ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 14:48:07 -0700 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Catherine Flanders <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Masters in Museum Studies vs. MBA vs. Education In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I would be interested in replies on list with comments as well on the value of a MS/MA in education. I have a similar science background (MS engineering) and have been working in an education setting. In moving into a museum career, what degree would be more valuable, the Museum Studies degree or a masters in informal science/math education? Thanks, Catherine Quoting Meagan Smith <[log in to unmask]>: Hello all, I have applied to graduate school for both Museum Studies and an MBA for this coming fall. As the deadline for making a decision comes closer, I am wondering how to make the best decision. I have a science background, and have worked for a non-profit for the past two years. I am interested in science education and felt Museum Studies would be a great option given that I am not interested in teaching in a traditional classroom setting. I also applied to some top-ten business schools, thinking that if Museum Studies programs did not work out I would try and pursue a more general degree and hopefully transition back into the non-profit and/or science field post-MBA. My questions to this list are: 1. How useful is an MBA in trying to pursue a career in the museum field? What advantages would it give me over other potential job candidates? 2. What advantages does a Museum Studies degree give a candidate that an MBA would not? Thank you in advance. I can be contacted off-list at [log in to unmask] Meagan Smith MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* ======================================================== 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). ========================================================Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . 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The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). ========================================================================Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:55:55 EST Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Beth Ilyssa Tischler <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Airport and mall museums MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_122.1f7a9866.2b8ff17b_boundary" --part1_122.1f7a9866.2b8ff17b_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Along the airport exhibit/ killing time lines, in a tube station in London has an exhibit of metallic bird sculptures by (i think) an African artist. Small installation on the opposite wall of the platform (on the other side of the tracks). Interesting, because the two weeks I was there, this station was the one in which we spent by far the most time sitting and waiting for trains, so we got to know those birds well! Along those lines, thank you to everyone who gave me suggestions for London. It was incredible. Conservation studios at the British Museum, tours with conservators at the V&A . . . lots of architectural tours (Fournier street -- inside the silkweavers houses, Deptford, Greenwich with John Bold...) it was absolutely incredible. and my free time was completely full of fun and fascination thanks to your suggestions! For those of you asking what they were building near St. Paul's, I think what you were seeing is what the locals call "the great glass gherkin," a huge glass pickle of an office building. very phallic. beth ========================================================Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . 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Along those lines, thank you to everyone who gave me suggestions for London. It was incredible. Conservation studios at the British Museum, tours with conservators at the V&A . . . lots of architectural tours (Fournier street -- inside the silkweavers houses, Deptford, Greenwich with John Bold...) it was absolutely incredible. and my free time was completely full of fun and fascination thanks to your suggestions!
For those of you asking what they were building near St. Paul's, I think what you were seeing is what the locals call "the great glass gherkin," a huge glass pickle of an office building. very phallic.
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It's schedule is: >Museum of Science, Boston, November 20, 2002 - March 30, 2003 >Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, May 4 - September 14, 2003 >New Orleans Museum of Art, October 19, 2003 - February 25, 2004 >Milwaukee Public Museum, March 28 - August 8, 2004 >Denver Museum of Nature and Science, September 12, 2004 - January 23, 2005 >Frist Center, Nashville, June 11 - October 9, 2006 >Portland Museum of Art, November 5, 2006 - March 4, 2007 >The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, September 2 - December 31, 2007 > >More info on NGA website http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/ontour.htm > >Julie Carpenter >DC Heritage Tourism Coalition >www.dcheritage.org > > > >Greetings all: > >The Eternal Egypt exhibit leaves Minneapolis March 16 and opens at the >Field Museum in Chicago April 26, and then on to the Walters Art Museum >in Baltimore on September 21. > >Are there any other Egyptian exhibits traveling the US? What museums and >when? Please! > >Ron Fellows, CM, Associate Director >The Heritage of the Americas 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). ========================================================================Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:04:23 -0700 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Stefan Sommer <[log in to unmask]> Organization: Natural Heritage Center Subject: Re: Masters in Museum Studies vs. MBA Comments: To: "Smith, Meagan" <[log in to unmask]> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary_(ID_6SNh8Sz/U+33c/nTLkUi5g)" --Boundary_(ID_6SNh8Sz/U+33c/nTLkUi5g) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Dear Meagan, With your interests in science education it seems to me that a Museum Studies degree with an emphasis in education would be the right way to go. An MBA would be more likely to prepare you for museum administration. There are several good education oriented Museum Studies Programs to choose from. Your question hits on the topic of the ACUMG's upcoming pre-conference at the AAM conference in May. I hope you will be able to join us for this timely discussion of this perennial question. This conference is titled: "To a Degree or Can You Still Learn on the Job! Museum Studies Programs in Academia." There are lots of great speakers including folks who will address the preparation of museum professionals for the educational museum. You can see the whole conference program by looking at the Conference Brochure and Registration Form: http://www.NaturalHeritageCenter.org/acumg/ACUMG03.pdf Stefan Sommer, Vice President Association of College and University Museums and Galleries (ACUMG) Dr. Stefan Sommer, Director Natural Heritage Center Idaho State University Campus Box 8007 Pocatello, Idaho 83209 [VOICE] (208) 282-5841 [FAX] (208) 282-4570 [E-MAIL] [log in to unmask] Meagan Smith wrote: > > > Hello all, > > I have applied to graduate school for both Museum Studies and an MBA > for this coming fall. As the deadline for making a decision comes > closer, I am wondering how to make the best decision. I have a science > background, and have worked for a non-profit for the past two years. I > am interested in science education and felt Museum Studies would be a > great option given that I am not interested in teaching in a > traditional classroom setting. I also applied to some top-ten business > schools, thinking that if Museum Studies programs did not work out I > would try and pursue a more general degree and hopefully transition > back into the non-profit and/or science field post-MBA.My questions to > this list are: > 1. How useful is an MBA in trying to pursue a career in the museum > field? What advantages > would it give me over other potential job candidates? > 2. What advantages does a Museum Studies degree give a candidate that > an MBA would not? > > Thank you in advance. > > I can be contacted off-list at [log in to unmask] > > Meagan Smith > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* > ========================================================= Important > Subscriber Information: > > The Museum-L FAQ file is located at > http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . 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     With your interests in science education it seems to me that a Museum Studies degree with an emphasis in education would be the right way to go. An MBA would be more likely to prepare you for museum administration. There are several good education oriented Museum Studies Programs to choose from.
     Your question hits on the topic of the ACUMG's upcoming pre-conference at the AAM conference in May. I hope you will be able to join us for this timely discussion of this perennial question. This conference is titled:
            "To a Degree or Can You Still Learn on the Job!
                   Museum Studies Programs in Academia."
There are lots of great speakers including folks who will address the preparation of museum professionals for the educational museum. You can see the whole conference program by looking at the Conference Brochure and Registration Form: http://www.NaturalHeritageCenter.org/acumg/ACUMG03.pdf

     Stefan Sommer, Vice President
     Association of College and University Museums and Galleries (ACUMG)
 
 

Dr. Stefan Sommer, Director
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Meagan Smith wrote:

 

Hello all,

I have applied to graduate school for both Museum Studies and an MBA for this coming fall. As the deadline for making a decision comes closer, I am wondering how to make the best decision. I have a science background, and have worked for a non-profit for the past two years. I am interested in science education and felt Museum Studies would be a great option given that I am not interested in teaching in a traditional classroom setting. I also applied to some top-ten business schools, thinking that if Museum Studies programs did not work out I would try and pursue a more general degree and hopefully transition back into the non-profit and/or science field post-MBA.My questions to this list are:
1.  How useful is an MBA in trying to pursue a career in the museum field? What advantages
would it give me over other potential job candidates?
2.  What advantages does a Museum Studies degree give a candidate that an MBA would not?

Thank you in advance.

I can be contacted off-list at [log in to unmask]

Meagan Smith
 
 
 

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(Speaking as an educator. :) A good background in education can be applied to any type of education situation - museums, classroom or distance learning. I'd also suggest taking some straight teacher training classes as well since you will most likely be working with teachers and designing programs for their classrooms as follow-up activities. One of my pet peeves about museum educators is that a lot of them can develop really great ed programs that are completely impractical in a most school classrooms. The activities either take too long or require materials and space that teachers don't have access to. Having to do some practicums in a school is a great way to get an idea of what teachers have to deal with these days and what their limitations are. Deb __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! 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The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). ========================================================================Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 19:17:03 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Ken Brown <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Photocopiers MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Anyone who may be leasing and/or purchasing photocopier machines have any recommendations, pro or con, on specific photocopier models for the administrative offices? Would appreciate your advice. /thanks / ken Kenneth B. Brown [log in to unmask] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dawn Scher Thomae" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 1:57 PM Subject: Re: Egyptian Exhibits > Ron: The Milwaukee Public Museum will be hosting "The Quest for > Immortality" Egyptian exhibit March through August 2004. > Dawn Scher Thomae > Milwaukee Public Museum > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ron Fellows [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 12:31 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Egyptian Exhibits > > > Greetings all: > > The Eternal Egypt exhibit leaves Minneapolis March 16 and opens at the > Field Museum in Chicago April 26, and then on to the Walters Art Museum > in Baltimore on September 21. > > Are there any other Egyptian exhibits traveling the US? What museums and > when? 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The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). ========================================================================Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:26:55 -0600 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: "English, Susan" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: MEMBERSHIP LEVELS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Our museum has had request for memberships from organizations such as Historical Societies, Libraries, and Service Clubs. As we are a relatively new organization, we do not have an organizational level of membership. For those of you who have organizational memberships, what do you charge, and do your organizational benefits differ from your regular individual and family levels. Specifically, how do you handle free admission if it is offered as a membership benefit. Also, we have had a request from a group residential home from Easter Seals. They have 8 residents living in the home. How have you classified this situation in terms of membership. Thank you for your help!!!! Susan English Exec. Director Joliet Area Historical 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). ========================================================================Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:33:34 -0600 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: "English, Susan" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Elderly Board Member MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Our museum has an elderly board member (92 years old). He was appointed to the Board several years ago as a representative of the Historical Society which has just recently merged with our museum. With the merger, there is no further reason to have him serving as a representative of the Society. We would like to change his slot on the board to a regular director position. In the past year, this Board member's mental and physical condition has deteriorated sharply. We would like to free up his slot on the board with another candidate, but do not want to hurt his feelings. We were thinking of approaching him and explaining that the representative position was no longer needed and asking him to become either a Trustee Emeritus or Honorary Trustee who could attend board meetings but not have a vote. Do any of you have honorary or emeritus positions for your retired Board members? Thanks. Susan English Executive Director Joliet Area Historical 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). ========================================================================Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:31:14 -0800 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Adrienne DeAngelis <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Elderly Board Member In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sheesh. He's 92 years old, in failing health, and one of the last experiences of this life you want to give him is rejection. He's probably going to be totally incapacitated or dead within 6 months. You really are a sweetie. AD On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, English, Susan wrote: > Our museum has an elderly board member (92 years old). He was appointed to > the Board several years ago as a representative of the Historical Society > which has just recently merged with our museum. With the merger, there is > no further reason to have him serving as a representative of the Society. > We would like to change his slot on the board to a regular director > position. In the past year, this Board member's mental and physical > condition has deteriorated sharply. We would like to free up his slot on > the board with another candidate, but do not want to hurt his feelings. We > were thinking of approaching him and explaining that the representative > position was no longer needed and asking him to become either a Trustee > Emeritus or Honorary Trustee who could attend board meetings but not have a > vote. > > Do any of you have honorary or emeritus positions for your retired Board > members? > > Thanks. > > Susan English > Executive Director > Joliet Area Historical 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). > ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 12:46:59 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Candace Perry <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Elderly Board Member In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Susan, we have had this occur several times in the last few years, and we do create honorary postitions for these individuals. They receive all of the mailings with no expectations of participation. Candace Perry Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:31:18 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Lisa Breslof <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Elderly Board Member In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask] s> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Yes, that is what we did and still do today in the John Burroughs Association. Lisa Breslof At 09:33 AM 2/28/03 -0600, you wrote: >Our museum has an elderly board member (92 years old). He was appointed to >the Board several years ago as a representative of the Historical Society >which has just recently merged with our museum. With the merger, there is >no further reason to have him serving as a representative of the Society. >We would like to change his slot on the board to a regular director >position. In the past year, this Board member's mental and physical >condition has deteriorated sharply. We would like to free up his slot on >the board with another candidate, but do not want to hurt his feelings. We >were thinking of approaching him and explaining that the representative >position was no longer needed and asking him to become either a Trustee >Emeritus or Honorary Trustee who could attend board meetings but not have a >vote. > >Do any of you have honorary or emeritus positions for your retired Board >members? > >Thanks. > >Susan English >Executive Director >Joliet Area Historical 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). ____________________________________________________ Lisa Breslof, M.S.Ed Supervising Museum Instructor Department of Education American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street New York, NY 10024 Phone: 212-769-5169 Fax: 212-313-7182 e-mail:[log in to unmask] John Burroughs Association http://research.amnh.org/burroughs/ ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:51:04 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Julie Moore <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Exhibit installation question MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" We use a particular type of tape called Permacel that we get from Ridout Plastics. It's double-faced paper tape that doesn't trash walls, yet is very sticky. The drawback is the cost...about $8 per roll...and it goes fast. Worth it though. Julia Muney Moore Director of Exhibitions and Artist Services Indianapolis Art Center 820 E. 67th St. Indianapolis, IN 46220 (317) 255-2464 x233 FAX (317) 254-0486 email <[log in to unmask]> website ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:48:18 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Julie Moore <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Elderly Board Member MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" We have a President's Council that gets invited perhaps to one key board meeting or VIP function annually as a group, and get contacted for advice individually as needed. This is made up of former board presidents, or board members who were active and influential at a particular point in our history, and who still need to be connected to us for a variety of reasons (ours or theirs). Julia Muney Moore Director of Exhibitions and Artist Services Indianapolis Art Center 820 E. 67th St. Indianapolis, IN 46220 (317) 255-2464 x233 FAX (317) 254-0486 email <[log in to unmask]> website ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:45:02 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Julie Moore <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Airport and mall museums MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" The Tucson airport has a nice gallery in their airport that they use for contemporary art--but I don't think it's associated with a museum. The Children's Museum has (had?) a space in the Indianapolis airport that they used. (I don't know for sure because it's in a concourse I've never needed to be in) The Philadelphia airport has plenty of exhibit space that is used very well, but I think they have their own curator to organize the exhibitions. Japan has lots of museums that are located in shopping malls or even in department stores. It's an interesting phenomenon. Julia Muney Moore Director of Exhibitions and Artist Services Indianapolis Art Center 820 E. 67th St. Indianapolis, IN 46220 (317) 255-2464 x233 FAX (317) 254-0486 email <[log in to unmask]> website ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:59:19 -0700 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: ed sharpe <[log in to unmask]> Organization: coury house / smecc Subject: Re: Elderly Board Member MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yes this can be a really touchy thing to pull off.... tell them that they get a large retirement celebration for all of the good years of service either when they step down or when they are deceased..... remind them that they can only enjoy the honors and the great food when they are still alive.... ed sharpe archivist for smecc ----- Original Message ----- From: "English, Susan" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 8:33 AM Subject: Elderly Board Member > Our museum has an elderly board member (92 years old). He was appointed to > the Board several years ago as a representative of the Historical Society > which has just recently merged with our museum. With the merger, there is > no further reason to have him serving as a representative of the Society. > We would like to change his slot on the board to a regular director > position. In the past year, this Board member's mental and physical > condition has deteriorated sharply. We would like to free up his slot on > the board with another candidate, but do not want to hurt his feelings. We > were thinking of approaching him and explaining that the representative > position was no longer needed and asking him to become either a Trustee > Emeritus or Honorary Trustee who could attend board meetings but not have a > vote. > > Do any of you have honorary or emeritus positions for your retired Board > members? > > Thanks. > > Susan English > Executive Director > Joliet Area Historical 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] . 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The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). ========================================================================Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 12:56:31 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: "Searl, Marjorie (MAG)" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Egyptian exhibitions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester is in the final planning stages of the three-year exhibition Protected for Eternity: The Coffins of Pa-debehu-Aset. Scheduled to open on October 8, 2003, the exhibition focuses on the Gallery's newly-acquired inner anthropoid and outer shrine coffins of Pa-debehu-Aset, an Egyptian official of the Ptolemaic Period. Objects from our permanent collection and on loan from the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts will supplement the installation in order to explain ancient Egyptian religious and funerary beliefs. The interpretive nature of the exhibition is specifically oriented toward the education of our visitors. A 12-page gallery guide as well as an in-gallery CD-ROM will complement and augment the physical installation. The CD-ROM will be distributed to teachers and eventually adapted for our website. Public and educational programming includes a lecture series and on-going teacher training. For additional information, please contact Nancy Norwood, Curator of European Art, at [log in to unmask] Marjorie B. Searl, Chief Curator Memorial Art Gallery 500 University Avenue Rochester, New York 14607 1.585.473.7720 ext. 3009 1.585.473-6266 fax [log in to unmask] ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:56:57 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Wendy Watson <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Attaching labels In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII A method recommended to us by Clifford LaFontaine (NY exhibition designer) is very easy and very kind to walls: You use a staple gun to adhere either a piece of paper or matboard to the wall, then use double-stick tape (like white rug-tape) to stick the label itself to the paper. Removing them leaves only the tiny holes of the staples. If you use strips of matboard, the label applied atop it stands slightly away from the wall, which looks very nice, but if you prefer no shadow lines, simply use a thinner piece of paper. We had tried just about *everything* else before Clifford gave us this siimply method. ****************************************************************************** Wendy M. Watson Curator Mount Holyoke College Art Museum Lower Lake Road South Hadley, MA 01075-1499 413/538-2245 fax 413/538-2144 ****************************************************************************** ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 15:29:17 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Myriam Lechuga <[log in to unmask]> Subject: GW Workshop - Editing, Writing, and Designing Newsletters MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable GW Center for Professional Development in Washington DC Announces the following Workshop March 15: Newsletter Editing Workshop (CWPS 532) Find out the secrets of print and online newsletters that work. In this practical course, you'll gain and improve skills in editing, writing and designing newsletters that serve both the audience and the publisher. Hands-on exercises will reinforce your improvement. As time permits, you'll get a one-on-one diplomatic critique of a newsletter you're already producing. (The course also is recommended for those who don't already produce a newsletter but want to get into this field.) When: March 15, Saturday, 9:00am-5:00pm; Where: Washington DC - 2020 K Street NW; Cost: $395 REGISTER NOW ! To register call Customer Service at 202-973-1150, or go to www.cpd.gwu.edu to register on-line. For more information go to www.cpd.gwu.edu, or call 202-973-1178. Myriam Lechuga Senior Program Specialist GWSolutions, A George Washington University Enterprise 2029 K Street NW, Suite 600 Washington, DC 20006 (202) 973-1178 Fax: (202) 973-1165 E-mail: [log in to unmask] http://www.gw-solutions.com Center for Professional Development: http://www.cpd.gwu.edu GW Solutions -- Innovative Learning & Consulting Solutions ========================================================= 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). ========================================================================Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 15:53:13 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Jessica Trickett <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Heat sealing barrier films MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi everyone- I'm getting ready to purchase some supplies for creating anoxic environments to deal with possible infestation of collections objects. What I'm wondering is, has anyone found an inexpensive alternative to a heat sealer purchased from an archival supply company (for example, Gaylord's $200+ barrier sealer). The basic process involves creating a pouch by heat sealing all sides of two layers of film such as marvelseal or filmpak and inserting oxygen scavengers to create an oxygen free environment, so the seal has to be air tight. I hope I've given enough information to go on. Any suggestions? Thanks is advance for your input. Jessica D. Trickett Curator of Collections Mahoning Valley Historical Society 648 Wick Avenue Youngstown, Ohio 44502 330/743-2589 [log in to unmask] www.mahoninghistory.org ******* [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by DTI Online - www.dtionline.net] ******* ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:05:00 -0800 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Kathy Henri <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Heat sealing barrier films In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jessica, I use a small tacking iron to make Marvelseal packets. It takes longer, and requires good pressure, but it works for me! Kathy Henri Collections Manager Ventura County Museum of History & Art 100 E. Main Street Ventura, CA 93001 (805) 653-0323 x. 20 [log in to unmask] www.vcmha.org -----Original Message----- From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Jessica Trickett Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 12:53 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Heat sealing barrier films Hi everyone- I'm getting ready to purchase some supplies for creating anoxic environments to deal with possible infestation of collections objects. What I'm wondering is, has anyone found an inexpensive alternative to a heat sealer purchased from an archival supply company (for example, Gaylord's $200+ barrier sealer). The basic process involves creating a pouch by heat sealing all sides of two layers of film such as marvelseal or filmpak and inserting oxygen scavengers to create an oxygen free environment, so the seal has to be air tight. I hope I've given enough information to go on. Any suggestions? Thanks is advance for your input. Jessica D. Trickett Curator of Collections Mahoning Valley Historical Society 648 Wick Avenue Youngstown, Ohio 44502 330/743-2589 [log in to unmask] www.mahoninghistory.org ******* [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by DTI Online - www.dtionline.net] ******* ========================================================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). ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:11:51 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Lisa Breslof <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Heat sealing barrier films In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Marcia-thank you for turning this in today. Its and impressive list and next week I can get started on the press release. I now will give this list to the WakeRobin editors. Lisa At 03:53 PM 2/28/03 -0500, you wrote: >Hi everyone- > >I'm getting ready to purchase some supplies for creating anoxic environments >to deal with possible infestation of collections objects. What I'm >wondering is, has anyone found an inexpensive alternative to a heat sealer >purchased from an archival supply company (for example, Gaylord's $200+ >barrier sealer). The basic process involves creating a pouch by heat >sealing all sides of two layers of film such as marvelseal or filmpak and >inserting oxygen scavengers to create an oxygen free environment, so the >seal has to be air tight. I hope I've given enough information to go on. Any >suggestions? Thanks is advance for your input. > >Jessica D. Trickett >Curator of Collections >Mahoning Valley Historical Society >648 Wick Avenue >Youngstown, Ohio 44502 >330/743-2589 >[log in to unmask] >www.mahoninghistory.org > > >******* [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by DTI Online - >www.dtionline.net] ******* > >========================================================>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). ____________________________________________________ Lisa Breslof, M.S.Ed Supervising Museum Instructor Department of Education American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street New York, NY 10024 Phone: 212-769-5169 Fax: 212-313-7182 e-mail:[log in to unmask] John Burroughs Association http://research.amnh.org/burroughs/ ========================================================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). ========================================================================Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:10:01 -0800 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Indigo Nights <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Elderly Board Member In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Susan, you may wish to look at your bylaws to ensure you're on solid ground in creating such a position and what your organization's documents state as it relates to Board members. Remember that Board members have a legal responsibility to the organization, and, in some instances, you can't just boot them. In the fund-raising certificate program at UCLA, we were encouraged to limit board member terms and not make them in perpetuity. So as not to be perceived by people who are his fans (and potential museum supporters) as discriminating against this gentleman on the basis of age or health, you may wish to revise your bylaws as it relates to your board and make positions something like two years in duration, renewable for another two, but must rotate out at the end of the second term for at least two years. They can be brought back in after the two year hiatus, but again for a two year term with a two-year renewal and rotate out aft er that. That's how a number of organizations have set up theirs to increase resources for the entity on which they serve. There's some logic in the rotational boards. Board members have a responsibility to the organization to also help cultivate funds by their connections. A number of board members don't remember that, but the basic philosphy in development is that fundraising is a shared responsibility between development staff and board members. I realize I'm not addressing your original question exactly, but I would encourage you to bring this question up (or at least check the archives there) on the Charity Channel's Board forum: http://www.charitychannel.com/forums There's a wealth of talent and knowledge there that can probably well advise you with respect to this dilemma. Good luck! --- "English, Susan" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Our museum has an elderly board member (92 years > old). He was appointed to > the Board several years ago as a representative of > the Historical Society > which has just recently merged with our museum. > With the merger, there is > no further reason to have him serving as a > representative of the Society. > We would like to change his slot on the board to a > regular director > position. In the past year, this Board member's > mental and physical > condition has deteriorated sharply. We would like > to free up his slot on > the board with another candidate, but do not want to > hurt his feelings. We > were thinking of approaching him and explaining that > the representative > position was no longer needed and asking him to > become either a Trustee > Emeritus or Honorary Trustee who could attend board > meetings but not have a > vote. > > Do any of you have honorary or emeritus positions > for your retired Board > members? > > Thanks. > > Susan English > Executive Director > Joliet Area Historical 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] . 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Palm Canyon Drive Palm Springs, CA 92262 email: [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Wendy Watson Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 11:57 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Attaching labels A method recommended to us by Clifford LaFontaine (NY exhibition designer) is very easy and very kind to walls: You use a staple gun to adhere either a piece of paper or matboard to the wall, then use double-stick tape (like white rug-tape) to stick the label itself to the paper. Removing them leaves only the tiny holes of the staples. If you use strips of matboard, the label applied atop it stands slightly away from the wall, which looks very nice, but if you prefer no shadow lines, simply use a thinner piece of paper. We had tried just about *everything* else before Clifford gave us this siimply method. **************************************************************************** ** Wendy M. 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The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). ========================================================================Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 15:29:22 -0700 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: ed sharpe <[log in to unmask]> Organization: coury house / smecc Subject: Re: Attaching labels MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Velcro makes a lot of sense actually, as the adhesives in the tape will eventually turn to crap and the sign may fall..... although some to think of it you have to hold the Velcro on with adhesives also.... ed sharpe archivist for smecc ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathy Clewell" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 3:18 PM Subject: Re: Attaching labels > Wendy and all -- > A similar method is to use Velcro instead of the double-stick tape. Staple > one half of the Velcro to the wall -- adhere the other half to the back of > the label. The Velcro also allows for re-positioning the label if you don't > get it level the first time -- which double-stick tape doesn't let you do. > --Kathy Clewell > Registrar > Agua Caliente Cultural Museum > 219 S. Palm Canyon Drive > Palm Springs, CA 92262 > email: [log in to unmask] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On > Behalf Of Wendy Watson > Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 11:57 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Attaching labels > > > A method recommended to us by Clifford LaFontaine (NY exhibition designer) > is very easy and very kind to walls: You use a staple gun to adhere > either a piece of paper or matboard to the wall, then use double-stick > tape (like white rug-tape) to stick the label itself to the paper. > Removing them leaves only the tiny holes of the staples. If you use > strips of matboard, the label applied atop it stands slightly away from > the wall, which looks very nice, but if you prefer no shadow lines, simply > use a thinner piece of paper. > > We had tried just about *everything* else before Clifford gave us this > siimply method. > > > **************************************************************************** > ** > Wendy M. Watson > Curator > > Mount Holyoke College Art Museum > Lower Lake Road > South Hadley, MA 01075-1499 > 413/538-2245 fax 413/538-2144 > **************************************************************************** > ** > > ========================================================> 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] . 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We are currently working to redesign our storage facilities.  We are looking for suggestions for furniture storage (couches, tables, secretaries, desks, wardrobes, etc.) and for our newly created architectual elements collection ( windows, exterior moldings, doors and masonry).   Right now are using a series of wooden boxes, each about 4 feet high, that several furniture items items sit in. The boxes are not easily accessible, especially for large and bulky items. Large items stand upright in designated storage areas.  Our windows are mostly stained glass,  and are currently arranged so that if one window is needed several need to be moved.  All this extra handling just increases the chance that an accident might happen.

 

Would any of you be willing to share your plans or ideas for storing these items?  

 

Thank you,

Carrie Snow

Registrar

Museum of Church History and Art

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The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). ========================================================================Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 20:08:38 -0500 Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> From: Nicholas Burlakoff <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Elderly Board Member In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We have done this (Trustee Emeritus) on a number of occasions. Some institutions also have Advisory Boards for this purpose. Nicholas Burlakoff -----Original Message----- From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of English, Susan Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 10:34 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Elderly Board Member Our museum has an elderly board member (92 years old). He was appointed to the Board several years ago as a representative of the Historical Society which has just recently merged with our museum. With the merger, there is no further reason to have him serving as a representative of the Society. We would like to change his slot on the board to a regular director position. In the past year, this Board member's mental and physical condition has deteriorated sharply. We would like to free up his slot on the board with another candidate, but do not want to hurt his feelings. We were thinking of approaching him and explaining that the representative position was no longer needed and asking him to become either a Trustee Emeritus or Honorary Trustee who could attend board meetings but not have a vote. Do any of you have honorary or emeritus positions for your retired Board members? Thanks. 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