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There's lot of them around. NPS has a rather comprehensive one.
On May 21, 2008, at 4:06 PM, Maria Kennedy wrote:
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> Does anyone have an "exhibition plan" that they would be willing to
> share. I am looking for some sort of planning document that will
> give me
> ideas on how to write and develop a plan to help me to prepare an RFP
> for Exhibit Design services.
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> Thanks,
> Maria
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> Maria Sanchez-Kennedy
> InfoZone News Museum Manager
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> Subject: Re: important energy inventors
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> Well, not to get too far off topic. I don't think my comments are
> tainted by
> being a future dead white man, but part of the glory of many of those
> named
> achievements is where they came from. How many, especially the
> Americans, were
> either an orphan and/or from a very, very, poor family, or was the
> child of an
> orphan and/or very poor family.
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> On May 20, 2008, at 3:05 PM, David Smith wrote:
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>> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Jonah Cohen <
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>>> The individuals David cites below are all well and good... Yet I was
>>> struck by his disdain for dead white men - and dead white women.
>>>
>>> Yeah, I guess if someone was white, they're of just ho-hum.
>>>
>>> Look, encouraging diversity is an important goal, but trying to do
>>> it in
>>> the wrong way just won't work, imho. And declaring that if someone
>>> lived
>>> a long time ago and was white then they can't possibly be useful to
>>> today's students is definitely the wrong way. Concede defeat to the
>>> creationists, cause Darwin and Wallace were both DWM.
>> It's not that these dead white men weren't important - just that as
>> members
>> of the privileged class, they get more than their fair share of ink
>> already. And it's not the people who are ho-hum, just that
>> particular list
>> of them. Emphasizing minorities in exhibits or other places isn't
>> denying
>> the importance of the persons from the group occupying the privileged
>> position, it's just a small way of trying to make the other classes
>> less
>> invisible. Science centers aren't responsible alone for writing
>> the wrongs
>> of bias in history, but neither should we be exempt from doing our
>> part.
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>> Dave Smith, who will himself, someday, be a DWM, but who hopes the
>> memory of
>> his accomplishments won't be privileged solely because of that fact.
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>> Da Vinci Science Center
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