[BCMA] Request for display case

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Greetings all.

Please excuse my ramblings here with this email.  After having spent 4 months burning up creative brain cells to recreate our museum from scratch in our new renovated museum, I have run out of inspiration to design an important element in our new exhibit hall.

So I have a request, mostly from museums here on Vancouver Island, for a display case or ideas to build our own custom case.  I know that sometimes when we all rearrange our museums we have spare cases we don't need, but still hang on to them 'just in case'. We are hoping to help recycle or repurpose a case from somewhere if possible, or glean some ideas from other museums on how they have displayed certain garments.

We have been given (permanent loan) a wedding dress, veil and gloves of a Canadian War Bride, which was part of last summer's WAR BRIDES: ONE WAY PASSAGE. With our March/April exhibit on the role of Canadian women during WWII being assembled, we want to set up the wedding dress for permanent display in our new facility. When we had this on display for our war brides exhibit, it was in the centre of the museum, hanging on a wooden hanger with fish line, suspended over small risers with the photos and such around it.  We don't have that kind of room any longer in our new space.

What we are hoping to obtain second hand is a glass "costume" display unit which we can hang the dress and veil plus have a bit of extra room for the wedding photo, the story of how she met her "singing pilot" and a panel of her portrait which has been added to the collection of the artist Bev Tosh which we have obtained permission to exhibit along with the wedding dress.  This wedding dress/war brides display will be placed in a corner location about 4' x 4' x 16'.

Does any museum happen to have a display case that they deem redundant that can be passed on to us?  We can come and pick it up in our exhibition trailer if on the island. 

Another option we have by using this mailing list is perhaps if any museum already has a custom built Costume Case that they could send photos to us, this may help us design and build our case rather than obtain one here on the island. I would love to see how other museums have dealt with or displayed certain garments or uniforms; either on mannequins, shadow boxes, or window cabinets.

Thank you for any ideas or photos or perhaps a display unit you don't need any longer.

at your service,

Lewis Bartholomew
Founder & Executive Director
The Alberni Project
mrbarth at alberniproject.org
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