[BCMA] Exhibit ideas?

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Tammy, get in touch with a model train enthusiast or club, or a military modeller or a dollhouse club and let them "recreate" your historic moments in 3D.  

In Kamloops, a skilled Dollhouse (scale 1"=1') maker created the history of her ancestors in 3D through models of their homes as documented in diaries, letters and family photos.  It made for a great exhibition in mini-dioramic form.   They can even be as simple as cut paper sets like those from 19th Century paper theatres.   The Northwest Flower and Garden Show in Seattle often has a competition class for school classes in which scenes are created in dioramic form to illustrate the show theme of the year.   Perhaps school classes or individual students could make disaster scenes, even possibly as a competition like Seattle's.

Cheers,

Cuyler Page
Heritage Interpretation Services
Vernon, BC
(250) 542-2597
cuyler at telus.net

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  Hi, everyone,

   

  I often get complimented on my ability to come up with brilliant ideas, but in truth I am really only good at recognising the brilliant ideas of others and . ahem . borrowing them. So I'm hoping you can help me!

   

  My board has decided that our feature exhibit this summer will be "Elementals: Earth, Wind, Fire and Flood" in the Creston Valley. In other words, a look at some of the natural disasters that have hit the valley and the impact they have had. We've done our research, determined the specific disasters we want to focus on, and identified the resources we have to illustrate them - and that's where I run into trouble.

   

  Any suggestions as to how I can transform a couple dozen newspaper articles (some only a sentence or two long), several written accounts, a number of photographs (almost all relating to the flood of 1948) and absolutely no artifacts whatsoever into a physical exhibit that fills a room approximately 12 feet by 12?

   

  Preferably for less than $2,000?

   

  Thanks!

   

  Tammy

   

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  Tammy Hardwick, Manager

  Creston & District Museum & Archives

  219 Devon Street, Creston, BC V0B 1G3

  Phone 250-428-9262

  www.creston.museum.bc.ca

   

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