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-----Original Message-----
From: Rebecca Prosino [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: Does Your Museum Have A Workshop? + related program
question
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Sci-Port Discovery Center has a fully outfitted shop + an electronics
shop in a side office. The shop also has an office where exhibit
documentation, laminate samples, small exhibit extras, and the Exhibits
Manager's office are kept. During the space center expansion, we also
had a satellite shop in the offices of the decrepit old city
planetarium. Finished exhibits were stored under the old planetarium
dome until the expansion was ready to be filled.
I have a related question: Has anyone ever used their shop for
programming? I am thinking of an afterschool program or camp called
"GirlsShop" or "BoysShop" where kids could actually use the tools (under
hypervigilant supervision of course). I wonder if any of you have
delved into a project like that?
Rebecca Prosino
Sci-Port Discovery Center
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From: Informal Science Education Network
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Glenn A. Walsh
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 2:30 PM
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Subject: Re: Does Your Museum Have A Workshop?
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Pittsburgh's original Buhl Planetarium and Institute
of Popular Science, used as Pittsburgh's primary
science and technology museum from 1939 to 1991, did
have a Workshop on the Lower Level, off of the
Mezzanine, where exhibit components were repaired,
maintained, and sometimes constructed.
gaw
--- Paul Orselli <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 14:12:40 -0400
> From: Paul Orselli <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Does Your Museum Have A Workshop?
> To: [log in to unmask]
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> ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of
> Science-Technology Centers
> Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums
> and related institutions.
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> For an article I'm writing about museum buildings
> and exhibit
> development, I'm trying to get responses from people
> about whether the
> museum they work for (or museums they've helped
> create) have exhibit
> workshops (that is, staff-only spaces dedicated to
> building and
> repairing exhibit components.)
>
> You can view this post for context:
> <http://blog.orselli.net/>
>
> Feel free to respond on or off list, or via the blog
> comments section.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
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>
> Paul Orselli, President and Chief Instigator
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> Paul Orselli Workshop (POW!)
> 1684 Victoria Street
> Baldwin, NY 11510
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> <http://www.orselli.net>
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> (516) 223-1043 voice
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> Do you know about ExhibiTricks?
> <http://blog.orselli.net>
gaw
Glenn A. Walsh
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SPACE & SCIENCE NEWS, ASTRONOMICAL CALENDAR:
< http://buhlplanetarium.tripod.com/#news >
Author of History Web Sites on the Internet --
* Buhl Planetarium, Pittsburgh:
< http://buhlplanetarium.tripod.com >
* Adler Planetarium, Chicago:
< http://adlerplanetarium.tripod.com >
* Astronomer, Educator, Optician John A. Brashear:
< http://johnbrashear.tripod.com >
* Andrew Carnegie & Carnegie Libraries:
< http://andrewcarnegie.tripod.com >
* Duquesne Incline cable-car railway, Pittsburgh:
< http://incline.pghfree.net >
* Public Transit:
< http://andrewcarnegie2.tripod.com/transit >
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