I was (and still am) a BIG "Mixed-up Files..." fan!!!  Yes, no doubt one of
the reasons I ended up with a museum career.

 Iguess as far as munchies go, as an adult and as a museum educator, I would
have to say NO FOOD ALLOWED!!!  I cringe when I see people strolling through
the museum with footlongs from the vendors Like they weren't aware that the
big "NO FOOD ALLOWED" signs also pertained to them. (OK, I'll get off that
soapbox, for now)

but as a kid...well, anything chocolate and as much pretzels and potato chips
(and dip, of course) that i could have carried.  Drinks would have been a
problem, because even as a kid, I wouldn't drink soda, and back then, well,
spring water didn't come in bottles you could get out of a machine...Maybe I
would be reduced to drinking out of the wish fountain (with that slightly
coppery taste...)

And from growing up a scant 30 miles outside of NYC, 
it would have to the Met. No question.

Oh, and by the way, if you see the film version, one of the people standing in
line to see the exhibit was my 4th grade reading teacher!
Hi Mrs. Wilson!!

Patricia McDougall
Tour and Reservation Supervisor
national Air and Space Museum
Washington, DC

Elizabeth Moore <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
I will have to concur and say the Met - primarily because of "The Mixed up
Files....."  I too LOVED that book as a child and I swear it is one of the
reasons that museum work stayed in my head as a potential career as a child.
I can't say that it was my fave though, Harriet the Spy might have beat it
out at age 8.  How many museum careers do you think did that book inspired
anyway?  Any other "Files" readers out there?  Of course, little did I know
then of plans, policies, and budget cuts......

Munchies, hmmm.  As a Collections Manager I would have to say "none."  As a
child, however, when I read that book and made my own fantasy plans about
hiding out at the Met I would have said pop rocks, soda, and pb&j.

Elizabeth Moore

Dr. Elizabeth A. Moore
Curator of Collections and Archaeology
Virginia Museum of Natural History
1001 Douglas Avenue
Martinsville, VA  24112

----- Original Message -----
From: "Feltus, Pamela" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 9:50 AM
Subject: Locked in a museum


> >
> > If you could get locked into a museum overnight, which one
> > would it be?  And
> > which munchies would you, by chance, have on your person?
> >
>
> When I was a kid, my favorite book was "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs
Basil
> E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg. Loved it- and when we went to the Met
we
> would always pick out where we wanted to hide and sleep and such. It was a
> brilliant way to make the museum come alive.
>
> I also recommend the new movie the Royal Tannenbaums (?). In the
beginning,
> there is a flashback to two of the characters living in a New York museum
> for a week and sleeping under an animal.
>
> As much as I would love to spend the night in a Frank Lloyd Wright house
> (I'm not too picky as to which), I wouldn't be eating munchies in the
middle
> of a museum! So I guess I should go back and pick on that has a cafeteria!
>
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