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Paul,
I LOVE working in a museum right now with a shop (and fabricators).
It brings the fabrication team into the creative process, makes me
feel like a team leader instead of a taskmaster for contractors, and
imprints us uniquely onto the exhibits.
It's also a lot of fun (see these recent pics at http://
www.flickr.com/photos/ninaksimon/).
Interestingly, Bryan Kennedy has applied this same argument to having
in-house programmers and web developers. Why have contractors create
our content products--virtual and real--instead of having that be
part of our core function? I didn't "get" the virtual argument until
I started thinking of it truly as analogous (and interrelated) to
exhibits. The same arguments against keeping in-house programmers--
too expensive, too specialized--are used to eliminate shops and
fabricators.
Bryan wrote about it here: http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/2008/04/
guest-post-from-museums-and-web-bryan.html
Nina
On May 13, 2008, at 11:12 AM, Paul Orselli wrote:
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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.)
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> You can view this post for context: <http://blog.orselli.net/>
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> Feel free to respond on or off list, or via the blog comments section.
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> Thanks!
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