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TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
A meeting of the Technical Advisory Committee to
the Pickerin Museum Board was held on Wednesday,
June 25th 1975 at 2.00 p.m. in the Pickering Museum
at Brougham.
PRESENT: Mr. T.W. Beddall
Mr. Wm. Clark
Mr. R. Cooper
Mr. D. McLean
Mr. R. Miller
Mr. C. Purcell
Mr. G. Shewan
Mr. K. Spratley (Chairman)
t1r. G. Waters
Mr. J.P. Myslik (Secretary)
1. ADOPTION OF MINUTES
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MOVED by R. Cooper, seconded by G. Shewan that the
minutes of the meeting of June 11th 1975 be adopted.
CARRIED
TOUR OF THE MUSEUM SITE
The members of the Committee were taken on a tour
through the various buildings of the Museum Site.
They also had the opportunity to view a considerable
number of the artifacts and machines.
NEW BUSINESS
Theme of the Museum
Two general areas of this topic were discussed.
a) Problems and possibilities of a living Museum:
1. Security-
This kind of Museum set-up would be harder
to control and supervise.
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Training Program -
The other difficulty with a living Museum
is the fact that there are very few people
who are skilled in the crafts that were
prevalent in the previous century. An
arrangement would have to be made whereby
interested young people could be trained by
the older craftsmen on an apprenticeship-
type basis. This would be a means whereby
senior citizens could be kept active and
useful in the community. These older
craftsmen could also serve as security on
the Museum Grounds.
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Item 3 contd.
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It was furthermore noted that the knowledge
of the older members of the community should
be recorded, possibly on tape, in order to
preserve the vast fund of Historical data
which they have and which will be lost if
the data is not recorded. In order to interest
young people in this kind of program, it would
be essential that the people in the program
be paid on a par with other people in the
business world.
b) The other area which was discussed was the
possibility of an on-going type of Museum,
especially in view of the very large time span
encompassing the collection in the present Museum.
This could be done on the basis of a time-street,
whereby an individual walking through the Museum
would actually be witnessing the evolution of
history from Pioneer Days.
Another way in which the on-going type of
Museum could be treated would be by means of
successive nuclei. Edmonton is developing a
Museum on this basis: first an Indian Village
then a Hudson's Bay Company Store, subsequently
a farm setting, then a Town setting and ultimately
oil rigs. The incipient Agricultural Museum of
Ontario is also considering this idea by depicting
a Pioneer Farm, a farm in the 1860's, a farm in
the 1890's, in the 1920's and ultimately in the
1940is. It was decided that this theme could
be discussed at a later date when the new Museum
Site is inspected.
DATE OF NEXT MEETING
July 9th 1975 - 2.00 p.m. at the Greenwood Site.
ADJOURNMENT
MOVED by R. Miller, seconded by G. Shewan that the
meeting adjourn at 5.20 p.m.
CARRIED