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Re: Questions about doing a museum show
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Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:49:15 GMT
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The GMLTC had our layout set up at the Minnesota Transportation Museum's Jackson
Street Roundhouse for several months, it just about destroyed the club. We set
it up late October 2005, and took it down in February.
The museum is open on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and we needed to have people
staffing the layout at all times. We don't use stantions or plexiglass, in fact
we encourage people to get right up next to the layout. All our modules have
scenes underground that are best viewed "with your nose right up next to the
glass".
We love having people around the layout, but because everything is reachable we
need to supervise constantly.
Fortunately, we have a couple members who could flex their work hours enough to
cover the Wednesdays, but it was a major hassle. One of our members put in so
many Wednesday days he just completely burned out and is currently on 'hiatus'
from the GMLTC. Our club hasn't had any sort of meeting or building session
since the show we do in La Crosse in March. Hopefully we can get back into
building in the next few months.
Suggestions: Set a limit to the number of days / weeks you'll be set up. Ours
was an open-ended deal, and since we don't have room to work on the layout (none
of us has that kind of space!) we used the Roundhouse as our building area - and
that helped burn a few of us out by staying there longer than we should have.
Make sure you've got people to staff the layout! I don't know how labor
intensive your display is, maybe you can get by with one or two people. We
usually need two, just to keep our sanity. Some club members brought kids,
which is great - but that kind of takes their parents away from watching the
layout to watching their kids. On the flip side, kids usually have snacks that
they don't mind sharing. <grin>
Be able to cover the layout when you're not there. Bedsheets, tarps, anything
to keep the dust off. The Roundhouse is pretty dusty, our layout would need to
be dusted every other week.
We did burn out a few train motors, but that's just an expense we live with.
You could definitely negotiate with the museum to cover the cost of replacement
motors.
We had a few derailments, but we're used to that - we just pick up the parts and
rebuild.
Try to build anything that is currently on display at the museum. People would
really get a kick out of seeing a Lego train, and we'd point behind them and say
"it's *that* one".
JohnG, GMLTC
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| I'm looking to pick the brains of clubs who have done longer duration shows, especially at a museum. NovaLUG (Nova Scotia, Canada) has been approached by a museum, but the longest show we have done before was one day setup and two day display. In (...) (18 years ago, 13-Jul-06, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains)
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