Mark Erik Nielsen wrote: > > I would like to see responses to this question as well. Our museum is > currently examining the prospect of relocating and expanding our shop. > The shop is currently in an odd location and its too small, but we are a > small museum with no extra space, and we have obligations to expand certain > exhibition areas. One of my proposals had to do with combining some of > our decorative arts pieces within the shop environment. Although they could > have been installed safely, the response was cool, because some felt that > it would rub the academic contingent the wrong way. What do you think???? > For several years we had in our store an antique motorcar of local manufacture, which we used essentially as a decor piece (though it did have a semi-informative label)--stuffed animals for sale were displayed on it. Since the car was on loan and we had permission from the owner to use it this way (and since the thing was arranged by the director and we had no choice), we didn't worry about it too much. There were stanchions around it to keep people from actually climbing on it. The difficulty came when it was time to return the loan. Seems when we constructed our new store the car had been installed first and the store built around it! It was only pure luck we did not have to knock a hole in the wall to get the thing out! -- Janis Beth Wilkens Curator of Collections/Interim Director Museum of York County 4621 Mt. Gallant Road Rock Hill, SC 29732 803-329-2121 Fax: 803-329-5249 mailto: [log in to unmask]