Have you contacted the official negro  league baseball museum in
Kansas City Mo? If there isn't someone on the list from the museum
this is a good place to start maybe.

http://www.nlbm.com/



Randy S. Little
http://www.rslittle.com





On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 16:53, Keah Fryar <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello. I have a question regarding a museum in which I did an internship and
> am now further invested in due to the concern of their subject matter and
> the need to see this museum flourish. It is a museum that is devoted to the
> subject of the history of minority baseball ( I do not want to give out the
> official name). This museum is the only one in my state that aims to educate
> on this subject. It is a non-profit museum. The collection consists on
> sports memorabilia from the time period such as signed baseballs, bats,
> jerseys, photographs, etc. A majority of the collection is the property of
> the Collections Manager. As the collection belongs to him, it has not been
> kept up to museum conservation standards. Photographs have been assembled
> onto poster board or foam board and the collection travels with the
> Collections Manager in hopes of promoting the museum. The museum is only
> open by appointment and its target audience is school-aged children/ field
> trips. It is located in the basement of a church, as the head of the museum
> is associated with this church.
> I have stayed in contact with the museum's head/ director. During my
> internship I was asked to layout an exhibition design for the museum, as it
> is essentially a room filled with "cool stuff". There is no sense of
> organization in display at all (no labels, no real isolated items, frames,
> cases, etc.). She as the museum's director, is "museum educated", while the
> rest of the museum's officers and board committee is not. She and I had a
> meeting in which she would like to raise funding for an interactive to be
> inserted into the museum or loaned out as part of a traveling exhibition.
> Given the situations, should this museum focus on this now? Work
> simultaneously in raising money for the interactive but at the same time
> pursue other issues? Or is an interactive just not something that should be
> top priority right now?
> Again, the museum:
> 1. Lacks organization/ exhibit design/ hierarchy
> 2. Lacks conservation for its collection
> 3. Has to rely on the property of a single person (without any sort of
> contract/ agreement of his permanence)
> 4. Has a very low profile within the community (no advertisements, no public
> programs, small recognition from public sectors)
> 5. Has no definite home/ location of its own
> 6. Does not have its staff properly educated
> 7. No funding to start a new project
> I should also add that the Director wants this interactive to get a "leg up"
> on impending competition. The Collections Manager has a relative that might
> be starting a museum with the same topic as this one, so time is of the
> essence. Once again there is no binding agreement with the Collections
> Manager so my fear and hers is that he could walk at any time.
> Any feedback would be useful and appreciated
> Sincerely,
> A Graduate Student Trying Her Best to Help a Struggling Museum
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