a more permanent home for our displays…That would be a killer opportunity to get in with the children’s museum or some other outlet…Anyone want to seek out those opportunities?
Dan and Josh, thank you for your perspectives.
This was my take away lesson from the Greenberg display: individuals like Laura, Ben and Dan were each creating their own areas that filled multiple baseplates and they were all juxtaposed nicely. I more naively designed individual buildings thinking that they would integrate seamlessly into the landscape without any overall plan. I am seeing now that one or two people working on manageable subsections is very effective.
My current conclusion is that if someone wants to venture into a display theme like pirates, castle, western, Harry Potter, LOTR etc. they will solicit interest from the rest of the group and proceed with whomever is interested, with the understanding that suggested parameters are to plan areas in multiples of 40″ x 40″ using the MILS standards.
As far as taking up residency is concerned, I want to throw one more name into the idea pool – the Heinz History Center. We might be able to setup a display there that runs several months, as long as we someonewhat comply with their self-defined mission, which seems to be “anything that happened in Pittsburgh.” Just now it occurred to me that if we were to make a display that shows the progression of LEGO building over time, I think they would go for that and they might even have the resources to help out.
After building my Alpine Village, I emailed the Children’s Museum several times with photos of my display attached but I never heard back from them. Of course this was ten years ago and they might be open to a more collaborative display now.
P.S. There is a toy museum in Rochester NY called the Strong Museum where I took the photo below in 2005. (I think this is Sean Kenney’s work.)