4/7/2012 Hi, Marilyn This doesn't quite fit your survey of floral arrangements inspired by objects in a museum's collections. But it's in the same spirit, and I thought you'd want to know about it. Part 2 of the exhibition, Botanica Magnifica: Photographs by Jonathan Singer, New Jersey State Museum (4/21/2012-8/26/2012) will include a large photograph of a floral arrangement. Dr. Singer commissioned Remco Van Vliet, Van Vliet & Trap, to design the arrangement. The bouquet pays homage to the 17th century Dutch masters who in part inspired Singer's distinctive style of botanical photography (take a look at his book, Botanica Magnifica http://www.abbeville.com/bookpage.asp?ISBN=9780789210333 ) You'll recognize Van Vliet's name as the Metropolitan Museum of Art's floral/events designer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGJBC6Y1LO4 The New Jersey State Museum greets its visitors with striking flower arrangements, underwritten by a special Friends of the Museum fund, but I haven't noticed connections to the collections. Karen PS I just learned about another show and book that might also be of interest for your research: Rosamund Purcell's photographs at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia http://www.ansp.org/visit/exhibits/everything-under-the-sun/ (March 3-May 20, 2012) Karen Reeds, PhD, FLS [log in to unmask] Visiting Scholar, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania Princeton Research Forum, a community of independent scholars http://www.princetonresearchforum.org/ Guest Curator, Botanica Magnifica: Photographs by Jonathan Singer Exhibition -- Part 1, January 28, 2012-April 15; Part 2, April 21-August 26, 2012 New Jersey State Museum, 205 West State Street, Trenton, NJ 609 292-6464 Tues-Sat 9-4:45 pm, Sunday 12-4. Closed Mondays and public holidays. Free admission! http://www.state.nj.us/state/museum/dos_museum_exhibit-singer.html http://njstatemuseum.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2012-01-24T13:57:00-05:00&max-results=5 http://www.jonathan-singer-photography.com/ ================= >Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 09:45:27 -0400 >From: Marilyn Schachter <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Museum "in-bloom-event" survey > >Hello All, > >Please excuse my cross-posting. > >I am a student in the Harvard Extension School's Museum Studies >program. The subject of my thesis is museum >"in-bloom-events", where floral arrangements inspired by objects in >the collection are displayed for the enjoyment of museum visitors. > I've created a short survey to gather information from people >experienced with this type of event. If you have worked on an >in-bloom-event, please take my survey, link below. If you know >someone else who has worked on this type of event, please forward >this email to them. Thank you in advance for your time. > >I am very interested in any statistics that you are willing to >share, especially regarding success measures and the time spent to >organize the event. Please, if you have any numbers on visitors, >memberships, prospects, staff and volunteer hours, etc, I would >appreciate your emailing them to me off list at ><mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] I would also like >to see any guidelines for the floral arrangers. > >Link to the survey: ><https://harvard.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_7X0h2rwAWwA1Gzq>https://harvard.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_7X0h2rwAWwA1Gzq > >Please contact me off list with any questions and comments. > >Thank you again. > >Marilyn Schachter ><mailto:[log in to unmask]>[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).