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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>I
wrote a brief post last Friday </span><a
href="http://futureofmuseums.blogspot.com/2012/07/futurist-friday-rosetta-project.html">http://futureofmuseums.blogspot.com/2012/07/futurist-friday-rosetta-project.html</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>About
the Long Now Foundation’s projects—the Clock of the Long Now, and the Rosetta
Project, both of which tackle the question of how to build/preserve something
that will last 10,000 years. I asked, at the end of the post, what it would
take to create a museum that was resilient & adaptable enough to last 10k
years. It was mostly a thought experiment (take a look) but over the weekend I
started wondering, what is the longest term preservation goal a museum has
explicitly set? 100 years? 500 years? If you have any illuminating examples,
I’d love to know. Can you post in the blog comments, if you have any to share?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Beth<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Elizabeth Merritt</span></b><b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> <br>
</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Founding
Director, Center for the Future of Museums<br>
T: 202.218. 7661 | F: 202.289.6578<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>American Association
of Museums</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>
<br>
1575 Eye Street N.W., Suite 400 | Washington, DC 20005 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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