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Jennie - Hope this helps.  We are a very small science-type museum with a
very limited budget.  But we still want to provide fresh programs to our
visitors - about 100,000/year.  

1.  Would be better to make exhibits available by the interactive rather than
the square footage.  Then a muaeum can either place them interspersed with
their current exhibits or in a separate area.  And rent them as funds allow.

2. For a small museum - anything from $200 to $1000 per interactive wouldn't
be unreasonable.  

3. Three to four periods a year is better - 3 month rental periods would be
ideal.


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Carol Ryan
Interpretive Services & Outreach Program Leader
Rivers Project Office/National Great Rivers Museum
PO Box 337
Alton, IL  62002
(618) 462-6979
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Anyone else wiling to answer these questions I posted a few weeks ago?

We are considering renting out the exibits on our ezibits.com website in
small themed groups in order to better serve the smaller museums. I have a
few questions about the smaller museum needs.

#1. How small is small? 200 sq ft? 500 sq ft? Or do you measure by # of
interactives - 4 interactives? 5 interactives?

#2. What kind of money are you willing to spend? (Always a tough question
since no one likes to "show their hand" - but I want our ezibits to serve the
needs of the science center community and I need to know the range which you
are willing to spend on small rentals)

#3. Would it be more advantageous to have two rental periods: the school year
and the summer instead of three times a year? (For me this means less
administration of the exhibits so a better price!)

I have had some great input already, but want more!  Thank you for sharing
your thoughts.


Jennie Zehmer
Director of Exhibit Services & Development The Franklin Institute Science
Museum
222 N. 20th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
PH (215) 448-1128
Fax(215) 448-1188
http://www.fi.edu/exhibitservices
http://www.ezibits.com

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