HomeMy WebLinkAboutCrossroadsCrossroads: Change in Rural America
Museum of Rexburg Smithsonian Follow up
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Numbers
The first 2 ½ weeks – 153 people
COVID Stay-at-Home Order came in place
Reopened for appointments May 1st
May 1st- May 23rd – 94 people, 23 appointments
Total – 247 people
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Revenue
Admission for total exhibit - $628.50
Gift Shop revenue- $370.25
Total- $998.75
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People reaction
Overall- excitement at having a Smithsonian exhibit
Subject matter- Rural America
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Most Favorite Display area
45 responses in total:
Popular response for one wish: arts center, space for gathering, indoor facilities for winter
Popular response for community lost: college students, frontier pies, spirit of Rexburg
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Popular response for 3 things: scenic landscape, quiet, and kind people
Popular response for Mayor: places and opportunities for farmers and professors to talk, make oatmeal cookies cheap, prove Pokémon exist, community rec center
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Takeaways
Positives:
Expose for Rexburg,
Opportunity to collect and organize history about Rexburg
Surrounding communities, and the university
Learned how to design a large exhibit
Built relationships with Idaho Humanities Council and other museums and libraries in Idaho.
Negatives:
Carrying exhibit up and down stairs: no freight access, small doorways
Lack of public response
Clearing out museum
Damaging artifacts, having to close the museum
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