Post by bandrow on Jun 4, 2020 14:27:46 GMT
Greetings,
I would be happy to provide some images of the Holland Room and the "bulk shipper" boxes we use - as soon as I can get access to the museum for long enough to do so. I'll get some images of the two compactors just for fun as well - one was installed in 1996 and is typical of lot of places, but the other was installed in the 1980's and was - as the story goes - only the second one ever installed in a museum for the purpose of housing an insect collection. Leptraps from over on InsectNet worked for the company that built it and was the company rep that worked along with the museum at that time.
If any of you want to see the Holland Room cabinetry featured in a movie - well, actually as a background - check out the movie 'Silence of the Lambs'. When FBI agent Clarice Starling (played by Jodie Foster) visits the Carnegie (called the "Capitol Museum" or something like that in the film) to get the moth pupa taken from a victim's mouth identified, there is a scene of her walking down one of the aisles in the Holland Room. As is common in movies - she starts out on the bottom floor and ends up in a place physically impossible in real life - at the end of a aisle on the upper deck! The director of the movie bought custom-made Venetian blinds for the entire Holland Room because he didn't like the existing ones - too light in color - cost him thousands, but they still look great! We also have one of the pupa "props" that oozed petroleum jelly (as all good pupae do!) and a napkin with Jodie Foster's lip prints, where she had fixed her lipstick between takes. That was snatched out of a waste basket by Dr. Rawlins - after all, we are a museum and we do need to conserve things. Once we installed a molecular lab in the 2000's, more than once it was suggested that we possess the DNA to clone Jodie Foster.
I haven't watched that movie in a couple of decades, but it's readily available. I believe it also captures our dinosaur hall at the time that our T-rex was still mounted in the "Godzilla" position. It has since been remounted in the "running velociraptor" position. That thing took on a whole new element of ferocity in the now-understood tail-and-head-in-the-same-plane posiition!!
Cheers!
Bob
I would be happy to provide some images of the Holland Room and the "bulk shipper" boxes we use - as soon as I can get access to the museum for long enough to do so. I'll get some images of the two compactors just for fun as well - one was installed in 1996 and is typical of lot of places, but the other was installed in the 1980's and was - as the story goes - only the second one ever installed in a museum for the purpose of housing an insect collection. Leptraps from over on InsectNet worked for the company that built it and was the company rep that worked along with the museum at that time.
If any of you want to see the Holland Room cabinetry featured in a movie - well, actually as a background - check out the movie 'Silence of the Lambs'. When FBI agent Clarice Starling (played by Jodie Foster) visits the Carnegie (called the "Capitol Museum" or something like that in the film) to get the moth pupa taken from a victim's mouth identified, there is a scene of her walking down one of the aisles in the Holland Room. As is common in movies - she starts out on the bottom floor and ends up in a place physically impossible in real life - at the end of a aisle on the upper deck! The director of the movie bought custom-made Venetian blinds for the entire Holland Room because he didn't like the existing ones - too light in color - cost him thousands, but they still look great! We also have one of the pupa "props" that oozed petroleum jelly (as all good pupae do!) and a napkin with Jodie Foster's lip prints, where she had fixed her lipstick between takes. That was snatched out of a waste basket by Dr. Rawlins - after all, we are a museum and we do need to conserve things. Once we installed a molecular lab in the 2000's, more than once it was suggested that we possess the DNA to clone Jodie Foster.
I haven't watched that movie in a couple of decades, but it's readily available. I believe it also captures our dinosaur hall at the time that our T-rex was still mounted in the "Godzilla" position. It has since been remounted in the "running velociraptor" position. That thing took on a whole new element of ferocity in the now-understood tail-and-head-in-the-same-plane posiition!!
Cheers!
Bob
