The other thing to remember is that you cannot just take a cd and plug it into a sound system. You need to either find music in the public domain or figure out how to pay for the rights. Many people on this list have delightful stories of their encounters with BMI about music that was or was not played in their galleries or at public events. You will need to look into this before you do anything. I think there is an information sheet on it at the AAM website (it was a big deal a couple of years ago). Best, Claudia Claudia J. Nicholson Executive Director North Star Museum of Boy Scouting and Girl Scouting 2640 Seventh Avenue East North St. Paul, MN 55109-3103 651-748-2880 [log in to unmask] www.nssm.org On Jan 5, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Lisa Chastain wrote: > Concerning the music in exhibits, our director has decided its just too quiet and wants to bring some ‘life’ inside. > > Lisa > Curator > > From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Scher Thomae, Dawn > Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 12:24 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [MUSEUM-L] Music in exhibits > > The Milwaukee Public Museum has had associated music in its African, Latin American, North American Indian, Pacific and Asian galleries since about 1964. If it’s not too loud, our surveys have found that people enjoy it and some actually dance to the music, hum or tap their feet while in the galleries. If tours are given in the area where music will be playing, however, there should be an easy system for it to be turned on, off or placed at low volume. If, however, the music has nothing to do with the exhibit, not sure what the point is since music is usually placed in exhibits to create a mood. Is this the director’s reasoning for adding music or is he concerned that its too quiet in the museum? > Dawn Scher Thomae > Milwaukee Public Museum > > From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lisa Chastain > Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 10:31 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Music in exhibits > > Listers, > > My director has put to me a request for ‘regional music’ in all of our exhibits. Now, as I curator I balked at the idea of breaking themes of my galleries with random music that has nothing to do with the exhibit ie. A military exhibit or a doctors exhibit. I was wondering of your opinions concerning music in galleries/exhibits, do you have music, have you rejected the idea and why? > > Any opinions would be helpful! > > Thank you! > > Lisa > Curator of Collections and Exhibits > > > ========================================================= 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).