[BCMA] Request for display case

Tue Feb 21 10:27:40 PST 2017

Lewis , I can relate to your dilemma, and I have felt your pain. After our
fire in 2011 which left us the unenviable task of rebuilding from the bare
bones of our building. It will be 6 years since this catastrophe and I have
dealt with the same issue since taking up my post as Curator here.
When I assumed my position in May of 2013 my "job" was to curate a museum
with damaged artifacts in storage, a gallery which was empty and a budget
of.....well pretty well nothing. Our community has a population of 2500 and
insurance did not cover the entire cost of the necessary repairs and
reconstruction. We had no collection insurance.
I have begged borrowed and not quite stolen what I can......but mostly
begging.
But this is what I have come up with to display one of our prized pieces ,
a silk gown circa  1900's that had been through a fire sustained smoke and
fire damage and had been subjected to ozone treatments. It will not
tolerate another move so it had to be well protected.

Another dress which is on permanent loan and display is an 1896 wedding
gown . This one is in much more stable condition and is displayed in an
alcove. My first choice was to have it displayed on an an antique dress
form , which we had use of but only temporary. It is now suspended on the
same dress hanger style as the black one and hung on a stand built by one
of our volunteers. The handsome gentleman in this picture is the groom in
the photo when the dress was worn a second time in 1951.

Perhaps this helps a bit.
Warm regards,
Diana

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 7:29 PM, Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv. <
bcma at lists.vifa.ca> wrote:

> 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
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