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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

My 1st Independent Exhibit - WWI Home Front

The WWI Home Front at Wolseley Barracks as installed, without the Plexiglas case
  
Exhibit mock-up to test final appearance

Text panels in the mock-up


Mount for the text panel

Hat mount with fabric cover

Custom made field cap mount

WWI helmet belonging to Capt. Petrie and custom mount


Posted by Robert W. Reader at 9:07 PM 0 comments

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

1st Posting! What is a Curator?

[from Latin: one who cares, from cūrāre to care for, from cūra care]

1. exhibition organizer: somebody who organizes and chooses the items in an exhibition at a museum or gallery

This is the defintion that I'm choosing to go with for now.
I'll be back later when I figure out how to post multi-media here without violating copyright.  We want to be all legal here now, don't we?  For some fun reading, maybe I'll post the museum code of ethics. 
Posted by Robert W. Reader at 3:32 PM 1 comments
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Founding of The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints (1830)

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