[WWI] Aging Modellers

[Andy Bannister]

My dad used to volunteer for the Western Canada Aviation Museum, back when
it was a little tinpot organisation struggling to survive. He used to tell
me how they'd get donations of models - in their hundreds - from families
whose father, grandfather, uncle, etc., had passed away. Most of them, he
said, weren't worth saving as they were poorly built and/or in bad shape.
Nonetheless each was carefully packed neatly in boxes and stored away, never
to see the light of day again. I imagine they would have been binned later
when it became a 'real' museum and got fancy new digs in Langley B.C. I also
know from my own stint as a volunteer at the Imperial War Museum North in
Manchester that they were inundated with donations of models but it just
wasn't practical to take them so they were always turned down.
 
Not to poo poo the idea too much, but I wouldn't put a lot of faith in any
public facilities taking your models. Personally if they get chucked in the
bin I'm not going to care too much when I'm dead!
 
Andy 
 
CEO, Editor in Chief, Choreographer, Teaboy
www.warpedplastic.co.uk <http://www.warpedplastic.co.uk/>  

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For the better models (and you know which ones those are) there are display
cases at : libraries, local museums, public buildings (all sorts) airports,
(all sizes) This will not guarantee their survival for any great length of
time, but will give them a chance at surviving us at least, check into it.
FWIW

 

 

Merrill
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On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 18:31 +0000, Don Ralston wrote:
> ' What's going to happen to our model collections when we are gone?
Don,

        For those us in the U.S., there is the WW1 museum in St. Louis.  But
we
are all aging at the same rate and I don't think they will need that
many models.  I really don't have an answer.
-- 

Dennis Ugulano
"Each modeler will rise to their own level of masochisim."
http://wwi.priswell.com



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