Weekend Exhibit Work

I'm having a busy weekend! Gibb finished the vitrine bases in the shop. Larry and Murph are painting them. Ryan and I went up to Sandy, near Salt Lake City, to meet Gary and Jill Thompson. We completed condition reports on his collection and moved them down to the Iron Mission Museum.



I offered to help the museum staff with some public programming activities. We hosted a big group of Boy Scouts. I taught them about Paiute pump drills. It was a nice break from exhibit preparation and field school planning.

The Iron Mission Museum keeps making progress on several other projects. Below is a photo of the replica the museum is building of the blast furnace that residents operated in Cedar City in the 1850s.  The wood frame will be covered with a facade of stone, which will give it the look of the old furnace at  much lest cost.  The interior of the furnace will be filled with interpretive exhibits.  It should be done by early June.




My next post will be about the field school schedule.

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Ready for Paint!

This morning, I helped the staff of the Iron Mission State Park Museum prepare the rotating gallery space. We shifted things around and emptied the space out. We left most of the current photography exhibit up on the walls, but we needed to get the area ready for the floor to be repainted on Monday morning. So we left the previous exhibit and the kids' activity area so people could use them this weekend. The crew will block off the space on Monday morning with a rope and curtain while they paint the floor. The removal of the photography exhibit will follow when the floors are dry and then we'll start construction and installation of the pottery exhibit!

Ryan and I really need to settle on an official title!

If you want to see some pictures, you can check them out:
On this public link from Facebook