[BCMA] Request for display case

Tue Feb 21 15:59:47 PST 2017

For a great example of adaptive re-use of one of those large old commercial
store counter display cases many museums are stuck with, check with Cathy
English at the Revelstoke Museum for a photo of what she has done there.
She turned one of those classic cases on end to create a wonderful looking
and practical vertical display case.

The case she used is a shallow style with curved glass top, meant originally
to sit on top of a counter, and probably would not fit a wedding dress.
However it is a brilliant use of the handsome case for a modern display.   

The crucial thing is to decide if any case considered for use in this manner
is structurally sound enough to be turned to stand on its end.   Adequate
and safe support for the glass is obviously essential.

Just for getting some inexpensive tempered glass in large sheets to make
your own display case, try talking to a patio door manufacturer.   They
often have “reject doors” or “reject glass” available at cheap prices
compared to buying new glass.   The reject aspect can be due to mistakes in
the manufacture of the frames or the glass.   I know of a large greenhouse
where the owner used dozens of door sized glass sheets from such a company,
the manufacture error being that holes had been drilled in the wrong places
for the door hardware and the tempered glass had to be rejected as waste for
door production purposes.

Cuyler Page

Heritage Interpretation Services

Vernon, BC

(250) 309-9248

cuyler at telus.net

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Behalf Of Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv.
Sent: February 20, 2017 7:29 PM
To: Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv.
Subject: [BCMA] Request for display case

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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