Traveling Exhibitions Session at SCFM
McKissick Museum
On Friday, March 12 from 8:30 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Zinnia Willits
(Collections Manager from the Gibbes Museum of Art and SETEG member)
and myself will be hosting a session at the South Carolina Federation
of Museums Conference on traveling exhibitions and how to create your
own. Here is a summary of the session:
The Moveable Museum: How to plan, organize and tour exhibitions from
your permanent
collection.
Museums often host exhibitions organized by other entities, but how do
you organize your own
collection to travel? Touring exhibitions offer a unique opportunity
to share your collection with other
institutions and provide access to art and artifacts that may not
otherwise be seen, studied or enjoyed.
This session will address the basics of traveling exhibition
development including conceptualization,
budget, marketing and touring. Presenters will discuss creation and
promotion of the traveling
exhibition "package" which may contain not only objects and
interpretive text but also exhibition
cases, audiovisual equipment, curatorial and registration information,
shipping and handling
information, installation instructions, educational and programming
resources, publication material,
insurance coverage and security requirements. This session does not
focus on hosting a traveling
exhibition or working with exhibition companies. Rather, presenters
who organize and manage
traveling exhibitions as part of their museum position will present a
realistic “to do” list for inhouse
traveling exhibition development. The audience will also participate
in a mock exhibition planning
session to encourage consideration and discussion of the many details
to consider when exhibitions
travel.
Any questions or comments, feel free to contact myself or Zinnia. For
more information on the conference itself, please follow this link:
http://www.southcarolinamuseums.org/conference.html
Hope to see you there!
Nathan Stalvey
McKissick Museum