polynesia americana museum of polynesian pop. exhibit design project - General Tiki

S Sophista-tiki Tiki Socialite Seattle WA Joined: Sep 13, 2005 Posts: 1899	S Sophista-tiki Posted posted on Mon, Feb 5, 2007 9:17 AM Its been a while. There's been tons of stuff going. This quarter , about collections and collections management is far more involved than I had imagined. There really is alot to "collections". most of it involves copious amounts of documentation! in triplicate! Twice! There have been three classes so far, alot about policy and procedure. We are at the Nordic Heritage Museum here in Seattle and most of the homework assignments have applied specifically to that museum. So I have not yet had the chance to craft an assignment for Polynesia Americana. My morning teacher is Joanna Sykes. she is the Director, Special Projects person for Chihuly. Those of you from this area will know that he is a super famous glass artist. Anyway my point is that she talks alot about their traveling exhibitions. They cost millions of dollars , several people get to travel with the exhibit to help get is set up, and they go all over the world ! Cool, all that just reinforces my plan to do an online museum with traveling exhibit/experience/environment. Right now Im working on setting up a blog for the museum, I just successfully created my own myspace page, and it was fun. So Im taking baby steps to figure out all of this web stuff and will eventually be able to get the official Polynesia Americana web site up. I have had offers of help to get me started on the web site from Chongolio, Yeah THANKS!!!!!! (I will be contacting you) The final project for this quarter will be a disater plan, which will be about PA. There has to be a plan about what to do with the stuff for the exhibit if something major happens, especially if things are on loan from private collectors. Im also learning some preservation , so I will know how to repair, clean, and store objects and archival materials. Lastly, I am starting to build this fairly large model of what I want the whole exhibit envirnment to look like. Might not be able to get it out of my house. Luckily I will be taking out the wall between the dining room and the deck, so I could get it out then. Dawn

Its been a while. There's been tons of stuff going. This quarter , about collections and collections management is far more involved than I had imagined. There really is alot to "collections". most of it involves copious amounts of documentation! in triplicate! Twice! There have been three classes so far, alot about policy and procedure. We are at the Nordic Heritage Museum here in Seattle and most of the homework assignments have applied specifically to that museum. So I have not yet had the chance to craft an assignment for Polynesia Americana.

My morning teacher is Joanna Sykes. she is the Director, Special Projects person for Chihuly. Those of you from this area will know that he is a super famous glass artist. Anyway my point is that she talks alot about their traveling exhibitions. They cost millions of dollars , several people get to travel with the exhibit to help get is set up, and they go all over the world ! Cool, all that just reinforces my plan to do an online museum with traveling exhibit/experience/environment.

Right now Im working on setting up a blog for the museum, I just successfully created my own myspace page, and it was fun. So Im taking baby steps to figure out all of this web stuff and will eventually be able to get the official Polynesia Americana web site up. I have had offers of help to get me started on the web site from Chongolio, Yeah THANKS!!!!!! (I will be contacting you)

The final project for this quarter will be a disater plan, which will be about PA.
There has to be a plan about what to do with the stuff for the exhibit if something major happens, especially if things are on loan from private collectors.

Im also learning some preservation , so I will know how to repair, clean, and store objects and archival materials.

Lastly, I am starting to build this fairly large model of what I want the whole exhibit envirnment to look like. Might not be able to get it out of my house. Luckily I will be taking out the wall between the dining room and the deck, so I could get it out then.
Dawn

Post #283242 by Sophista-tiki on Mon, Feb 5, 2007 9:17 AM