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Community show-and-tell: Pop-up museum

Published 8:01 am Sunday, October 18, 2015

Milk Bottles and Crate, used at the Peterson Dairy, JDCM 89.33.00. Selected for Ordinary Things/Extraordinary Tales by Emily Wall.
Milk Bottles and Crate, used at the Peterson Dairy, JDCM 89.33.00. Selected for Ordinary Things/Extraordinary Tales by Emily Wall.

The Juneau-Douglas City Museum will host a pop-up museum event in conjunction with their satellite exhibit Ordinary Things/Extraordinary Tales from 3-4:30 pm at the Douglas Public Library on Saturday, October 24.

In 2013 and 2014, members of the community were invited by the Juneau-Douglas City Museum to pick out an object from collection storage and write a label containing a personal response or story. The results were displayed in exhibits at the City Museum. Now, three of these object/story pairs are displayed in the lobby cases at the Douglas Library, selected because their writers have a personal connection to Douglas Island – Emily Wall, Ross Soboleff and Genevieve Gagne-Hawes.

Working like show-and-tell, this upcoming event invites the public to bring an ordinary object and share a story about it to be put on display for the afternoon. All materials for writing object labels will be provided, as well as spare objects to prompt stories.

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