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Misty, you didn't sign your name, but it showed up in your message anyway.
I'm curious about your curator's collecting strategy. Is the grocery store
exhibit a real possibility or is it just a casual idea? Since you'd need a lot
of "props" to stock such a display, it seems to me that you'd want to postpone
collecting until the exhibit concept got closer to reality. If the salad
dressing is intended for the permanent collection as an example of a ca. 1985
consumer artifact (which might or might not go on exhibit someday), that's one
thing, but, if your museum has the typical storage limitations of most museums,
I'd think that stocking up on miscellaneous unaccessioned "props" to fit
miscellaneous undeveloped exhibit ideas would be, well, premature and a potential
storage burden.
David Haberstich
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