deliverables for Monday Feb 15

Big Idea: Collecting is part of human nature.

Mission Statement: Visitors will explore the habits and history of collecting while engaging with objects and each other.

Exhibition Goals:

· Visitors will leave with an understanding of how collecting is part of human nature.

· Visitors will look at their own collecting habits in a new way

· Visitors will make connections with others

· Visitors will expand their understanding of what a collection is.

Visitor Objectives:

· Visitors will be able to articulate many different ways that people collect

· Visitors will engage with the exhibit to identify what kind of collector they are.

· Visitors will engage with the exhibition in a social way.

Team Goals:

· To inspire intergenerational sharing of experiences.

· To push ideas and think outside the box

· To remain positive.

Team Objectives:

· Using the Ryerss collection to illustrate collecting habits

· Will accurately represent the viewpoints of a number of disciplines, including science, history, and anthropology

Target Audience:

· Primary Audience: Families with kids with kids in elementary through middle school, up to about 13 or14 years old

· Secondary audience: Adults (parents, grandparents, adults without kids)

Possible location: natural history or anthropology museum, such as the National Geographic Museum in DC

Walk-aways

Wow, that’s me

Oh, I do that

That’s so me

Huh.

I used to have a thing like …

When I was a kid …

I never really thought about it that way

Look at this!

That’s so Great Aunt Betty

This looks like grandma’s apartment

We should come back with Uncle Joe

I didn’t realize how long people have been collecting …

I didn’t realize collecting has been going on for so long …

This is so much more fun than the mall!