I would say Cooperstown NY is a possible model, not the Baseball Hall of
Fame but the NY State Historical Society with its archive, farm, its
village, its graduate degree program and meeting center.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ceres Bainbridge <[log in to unmask]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.museum-l
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, September 18, 1998 8:12 PM
Subject: Re: Heritage Centers, Museums, & Conferences


>Dear Fellow Listers:
>
>The project I am working on, the Heartland Heritage Center, is in its
proposal
>stage of infancy.
>
>The principals would like to create an archives of living histories, a
>heritage center, remote houses, farms, and sites that are interpreted, a
>museum, and a conference center for groups, think tanks, scholars and/or
>artists.
>
>I'm aware of places like Williamsburg, Virginia and Mystic Seaport,
>Connecticut, but does anyone know of institutional models, especially
small-
>to-midsize organizations, which include any or all of these functions?
>
>Thank you for your suggestions.
>
>Ceres Bainbridge
>
>[log in to unmask] or
>[log in to unmask]