Financial History Issue 117 (Spring 2016) | Page 11
CONNEC TING TO COLLEC TIONS
THE TICKER
Sarah Poole is the Museum’s Collections
Manager. In addition to caring for the
Museum’s collection, she is also responsible
for securing object loans for exhibitions.
JUN 27
1934
Alan Barnett
the safety of the loaned objects. Items
will be hand delivered, if possible. Otherwise, they are professionally packaged for
shipping. Condition Reports detailing any
imperfections are performed by museum
staff before and after shipping, and are
repeated at the end of the exhibition.
Lenders will also provide assistance in
installing sensitive objects for exhibitions
in order to ensure that the displays will
not damage historic or delicate materials.
The benefits of object loans extends
beyond single exhibitions. Lending programs often build reciprocal relationships
between institutions, as well. For example,
after securing the loan of three technological objects for the gold exhibit from the
Computer History Museum, we sent two
artifacts from our permanent collection to
be displayed at their location in San Francisco. A handheld trading device and roll
of ticker tape were featured in Tools of the
Trade from October 2015 through January
2016. With this newly-forged relationship,
we were able to spread our mission to
museum-goers on the opposite coast.
The majority of objects in public and private collections around the world are not
regularly displayed for the public. Largely
due to constraints of time and space, many
meaningful objects are preserved in collection storage. Through collaboration,
museums can help bring these items to the
forefront so that they can be exhibited and
appreciated by our audiences.
The Museum’s Worth Its Weight exhibit features more than 260 borrowed objects from 43 lenders.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt enacts into
law the National Housing Act and creates
the Federal Housing Administration (FHA).
JUN 30
1934
President Roosevelt announces that he will name
the notorious stock manipulator Joseph P. Kennedy
the first chairman of the SEC.
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