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Symposium-Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Vill.



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HENRY FORD MUSEUM & GREEFIELD VILLAGE
ANNOUNCES SYMPOSIUM
A National Symposium for Curators and Archivists
is sponsored by the Benson Ford Research Center
with support from the Americana Foundation

(DEARBORN, MI ? April 4, 2002) - Henry Ford Museum
& Greenfield Village will play host to ?Choices
and Challenges: Collecting By Museums and
Archives?, November 1-3 at the Benson Ford
Research Center on the museum?s campus in
Dearborn, Michigan.

The symposium, with support from the Americana
Foundation, will bring together curators and
archivists from leading history museums,
historical societies and collecting repositories
from across the United States. Topics covered will
include the what, how and why of collecting . The
goals of the symposium are to share best
practices, encourage collaboration and to help
professionals better understand the strategic
implications of collecting.

Speakers and topics include:

Elaine Gurian ? ?Meaning of Artifacts.? Gurian is
a consultant and advisor to a number of museums
and visitor centers. Her current clients include,
in part: the National Museum of Australia, The
Jewish Museum Berlin and the Government of Puerto
Rico?s proposed children?s museum, PRISMA. Her
topic ?Meaning of Artifacts? will cover the
exploration of the many meanings of objects in
museums.

Lonnie G. Bunch ? ?Who Owns the Past?? Bunch is
president of the Chicago Historical Society. He
also has worked in various capacities at the
Smithsonian Institution.  His topic will use case
studies from New Zealand, South Africa, and Great
Britain to explore the challenge of collecting
through the prism of contemporary culture and
politics.

Richard Cox ? ?Archival Appraisal Alchemy.? Cox is
a professor at the University of Pittsburgh?s
School of Information Sciences, Archival Studies.
He will argue that archivists have been trying to
accomplish too much at once with their appraisal
and acquisition strategies.

Barbara Franco ? ?Collecting Stories, Creating
Meaning: Community-Based Collecting in the 21st
Century.? Franco is president and CEO of the
Historical Society in Washington, DC. She is
currently heading up a project of the society to
create a City Museum of Washington, DC that will
open in 2003 at the renovated Central Public
Library building at Mount Vernon Square. She will
address the issue of community involvement in
collecting.

For more information on the three-day symposium,
please go the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield
Village website at

http://www.hfmgv.org/schedule/symposium

www.hfmgv.org/calendar/symposium

or call Marilyn Yee at (313) 982-6100, ext. 2559,
e-mail at MarilynY@hfmgv.org.

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