<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">I have begged borrowed and not quite stolen what I can......but mostly begging.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><br><img src="cid:ii_izfutiff1_15a61e52f5fd81ef" width="562" height="375"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><img src="cid:ii_izfv2gpb2_15a61eb8ed7e6f8c" width="375" height="562"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">Perhaps this helps a bit.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">Warm regards,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">Diana<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 7:29 PM, Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bcma@lists.vifa.ca" target="_blank">bcma@lists.vifa.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Greetings all.<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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'.</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for any ideas or photos or perhaps a display unit you don't need any longer.<br><div>
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style="font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:19.05px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:18px"><div><span class="m_7201505136822414635Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(47,125,166);font-family:'DK Au Revoir'"><span style="font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:19.05px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:18px"><br></span></span></div></span></span></div></span><span class="m_7201505136822414635Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(47,125,166);font-family:'DK Au Revoir';font-size:18px"><span 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Le courriel n'est pas un mode de transmission securise et les clients doivent s'abstenir d'y inclure tout renseignement sensible sur leur compte dans toute communication electronique destinee a projet de Alberni.</i></span></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></span>
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