[Nhcoll-l] FW: Enquiry from film shooting in NYC

[John E Simmons]

In the book, the 1927 cabinet of curiosities is part of an exhibit about
the history of museums.

"Wonderstruck" is very interesting. It was written for young people and
tells two alternating stories, one in text and one in graphics, that
converge at the end of the book. It is well worth reading, both for what it
says about museums in our society, and what it says about deaf culture.
Although it is 460 pages long, you can read it in about an hour. It is a
very good book to use to get kids talking about museums, dioramas, and so
forth.

--John


John E. Simmons
Museologica
128 E. Burnside Street
Bellefonte, Pennsylvania 16823-2010
simmons.johne at gmail.com
303-681-5708
www.museologica.com
and
Adjunct Curator of Collections
Earth and Mineral Science Museum & Art Gallery
Penn State University
University Park, Pennsylvania
and
Instructor, Museum Studies
School of Library and Information Science
Kent State University
and
Lecturer in Art
Juniata College
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Paul R Sweet <sweet at amnh.org> wrote:

> 1927 is too late for a “Cabinet of Curiosities”
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> *Subject:* [Nhcoll-l] FW: Enquiry from film shooting in NYC
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> Please contact Lisa directly if you can help…
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> Hi
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> My name is Lisa Scoppa, I work with the art department on the new Todd
> Haynes movie "Wonderstruck", shooting this spring in NYC. One of the main
> sets of our film is going to be a massive Cabinet of Curiosities exhibit
> (the exhibit is fictionally set in the Museum of Natural History in 1927)
> and we are searching for elements to dress into our set. We are looking for
> all sorts of things: bones, fossils, artifacts, taxidermy, and all sorts of
> oddities. We are trying to source (and rent or buy) these materials from
> either a small museum or a private collector, so I thought I would reach
> out to you and see if you might have any ideas or suggestions...
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> The setting is a fictional exhibit about Cabinets of Curiosities in 1927.
> We have a very large room that we want to fill with specimens, artifacts,
> etc. Because of the nature of the exhibit, we don't have to be too
> scientifically accurate, and we are looking for a wide variety of things.
> Some examples:
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> Collections of minerals
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> Fossiles and bones
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> Taxidermy
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> Artifacts from other cultures
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> Entomology collections
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> Medical collections
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> Collections of antiques and oddities
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> We would be happy to make donations and to otherwise compensate for the
> loans. Let me know what you think!
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> Thank you
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> Lisa Crivelli Scoppa
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> mushupig at yahoo.com
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> *WONDERSTRUCK*
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