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THE MUSEUM

Create your own museum.

You don’t actually have to lease a property, collect items and display them; this will be a virtual museum. But you need to plan the museum which will preserve and display some set of artifacts that represent some aspect of civilization.

Choose the topic for your museum. Do you love old cars? Musical instruments? Rocks and minerals? Gems? Dolls? Stuffed animals? Tractors? Noodles? Nail polish? It can be anything.

But a word of warning: you MUST limit your topic to somethiong that can be covered completely in 4-8 pages. You can’t possibly cover everything there is to say about old cars in 4-8 pages. It would take at least a full book, and probably more than one book. So you need to narrow your topic. Maybe you choose to have a museum just about the Stutz Bearcat. Or maybe a museum just about the Mustang. Or some other aspect of old cars: maybe you want to create a museum of the bud vases they used to include in vintage cars. Or maybe you want to do a museum about weird features of old cars (did you know that Goodyear once sold illuminated tires?). The point is, your topic must be narrow enough that it can be covered, in detail and fully, in 4-8 pages.

To make this project interesting, you should choose something you have a genuine interest in, an interest you want to share.

Aside from that, you may find that the term “museum” has a lot of latitude. Is a collection of wax replicas of famous human beings a “museum”? Is the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland a museum? Is a library a museum? Is Graceland a museum? These may be questions you need to consider, depending on what you choose to exhibit.

1. Create a Project Proposal

The proposal itself is not hard, but it does require you to have given some serious thought to the subject of your museum, and to have done some research into the possibilities, so you know what is available. It must include:

• A project title (it can certainly change)
• An overview of your project as you envision it.
• The museum’s Mission Statement.
• Preliminary research into the artifacts you will display.

Here’s an example of a Proposal: http://www.somanybooks.org/winter/SampleMuseumProp…