Elizabeth:

1) What types or artifacts do you want to exhibit?  Do you have them
identified?
2) When you say a very small budget, do you mean a few hundred $? A few
thousand?
3) Do you presently have any kind of casework or other exhibit furniture
that can be recycled?
4)Do you have volunteers who can build things?

I think your answers will help people give you some quick and dirty
solutions!

Candace Perry
also with a tiny exhibit budget
Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center


----- Original Message -----
From: elizabeth Nora <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 1:49 PM
Subject: regarding exhibits question


> Hi. I have been asked to clarify my question regarding exhibition
materials.
>   I will instead start over.  I have recently accepted a position as
> Assistant Director in a mid-sized historical society in Ohio.  We maintain
a
> historic home, with the first floor interpreted for its Arts and Crafts
> architecture.  The second floor and lower level are exhibitions on local
> history (of counties within Northeast Ohio--in what is called the Mahoning
> Valley.) Some galleries are for temporary exhibits.  In two of these
> galleries I must develop and install and exhibition called "Keeping House:
> Contraptions and Contrivances of a Difficult Job."  The exhibit will look
at
> the history of housewifery in the area, placing it into a national
context.
> We will go from around 1800-present.  I am new to the position and I have
> only two months to bring this all together before it opens on December 1.
> Unfortunately, not much has been done at all.  Though past exhibitions
here
> have been well done, I am hoping to present exhibits in a new and
different
> way.  Unfortunately, we have a very small exhibits budget.  I am searching
> for exhibit fabrication ideas that are new but can be done on a limited
> budget.  I am searching for any and all ideas. I am interested in new ways
> to develop labels, display artifacts, etc.  I am interested mostly in
> fabrication ideas.  Thanks.
>
> Elizabeth J. Nohra
> Mahoning Valley Historical Society
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