While the building is being readied for our use, we have a
huge decision to make: what will be displayed at the museum? As a museum with
itinerant displays for the last seventeen years, our exhibits varied from one
year to the next. We displayed both local and national African American
History. Do we want to continue along this vein of routinely changing all of the displays or do we want to have a mixture
of both permanent and temporary exhibits?
Christine Miller-Betts, the museum director at the Lucy
Craft Laney Museum of Black History in Augusta, Georgia, said that she thought some changes
at a museum were necessary to keep patrons coming back. If there were no
changes, the patron would possibly visit a museum that one time and never
return. ‘The been there, done that’ philosophy would prevail.
With a limited budget for renovations at our
museum site, our immediate exhibit area has become smaller. Our grand notions about
what will be displayed, has been checked.
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