As a child in Chicago one of my favorite treats was to go to "the button
museum" with my dad.  That's what I called the Museum of Science and
Industry....  I think it was the interactives in the telecommunications
exhibit there that got me calling it that (this was back in the 70s).

But by far my most memorable museum experience was a members' night family
event at the Field Museum when I was about seven or eight.  We got to go
back into the storage areas (or at least the hallways outside) where staff
members were doing various demonstrations and such.  I was fascinated by all
the behind the scenes stuff.  I remember at first being really intrigued
that there was lots of stuff in the museum that wasn't out in the exhibits
and then wondering why and asking all sorts of, I'm sure now really
annoying, questions of the various staff running the demonstrations.
Looking back, I'm sure that's when the early seeds of my future career in
collections management were planted.

Megan P. Bryant
Registrar/Collections Manager
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
411 Elm Street Suite 120
Dallas, Texas 75202
(214)747-6660 x6619
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-----Original Message-----
From: Walter Reinhardt [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 12:31 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Most Unforgetable Exhibit


I have to wade in on this.

My most memorable experience was when as a child my parents took me to
Chicago to "see the museums."  In the Museum of Science and Industry there
was, for a twelve year old who was high on the gross factor, a most
memorable exhibit. In one of the stairwells are slices both horizontally and
vertically of a real human preserved in some kind of liquid. To this day,
when ever I visit I go and find this stairwell to see it again. Last time I
visited it was still there. I remember thinking "I want to work at a place
where I can do stuff like this!!"

Well, I am, hopefully, a little more sophisticated now about exhibition
content these days but it is what made me think that museums and the people
working in them were cool.

Walter Reinhardt

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