"Lewis & Clark Across Missouri: Mapping the Historic Landscape" Traveling Map Exhibit

Contact: Greg Olson, Missouri State Archives
E-mail: olsong@sosmail.state.mo.us
Phone: 573/522-2705
Web Site: www.sos.mo.gov/archives/projects/lewisandclark_4.asp

Content Description: By combining 19th century land survey records at the Missouri State Archives with modern mapping technology, geographers from the Geographic Resources Center at the University of Missouri's Department of Geography produced something unique and original. They re-created the world of Lewis and Clark in historic maps and gave us a new way to look at the world of Lewis and Clark in the land that became Missouri.

Logistical Information: The exhibit includes 19 graphic panels (each 3 feet high by 4 feet wide) that mount to 10 double-sided fabric-covered and freestanding exhibit panels. The exhibit requires a minimum of 400 square feet. It is transported in three crates; two being 49 inches x 38 inches x 14 inches and the third being 29 inches x 38 inches x 14 inches. Each crate has handles and wheels. The Missouri State Archives will insure the exhibit during the loan period but some security is required. The Missouri State Archives will also be responsible for arranging and paying for exhibit transportation. The exhibit will be available for periods of four weeks beginning in March 2003 and running through 2006.

Contact: Christine Montgomery, State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia
E-mail: MontgomeryC@umsystem.edu
Phone: (573) 882-2476
Web Site: www.system.missouri.edu/shs/Travel_Exhibit.html

Content Description: Objects Worthy of Notice brings together artwork from the Society's collection by naturalists John James and John Woodson Audubon, and artist Charles W. Schwartz with journal excerpts from the Corps of Discovery as they scientifically record 122 species for the first time. Done in conjunction with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, additional captions provide information on the status of these same animals in the world today, including some that are extinct or currently listed as endangered species.

Logistical Information: Exhibit venues are responsible for making shipping arrangements and paying shipping costs. Two versions of this exhibit, identical in content, are available.

Large Format: This exhibit consists of six graphic panels, 3 feet x 4 feet, and six panels, 4 feet x 3 feet, mounted on freestanding double-sided, fabric-covered exhibit furniture. The exhibit furniture can be set up as one continuous display, totaling approximately 24 linear feet, or set up in two parts of approximately 12 linear feet each. The exhibit is packed in two crates, 49 inches x 38 inches x 14 inches. Each crate has handles and wheels.

Smaller Format: This exhibit consists of six graphic panels, 20 inches x 27.5 inches, and six panels, 27.5 inches x 20 inches, mounted on freestanding double-sided, fabric-covered exhibit furniture. The exhibit furniture can be set up as one continuous display, totaling approximately 12 linear feet. The exhibit is packed in one crate, 49 inches x 38 inches x 14 inches. Each crate has handles and wheels.

Contact: Connie Grellner, Missouri Department of Natural Resources’ Missouri State Museum
E-mail: connie.grellner@dnr.mo.gov
Phone: (573) 751-2854

Content Description: When Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set foot on what became Missouri soil in November 1803, they entered a country full of unknown outcomes and of choices yet unmade. It was a land abundant in flora and fauna, but it also contained a complex and diverse gallery of people. The observations they made during their journey and the choices they made afterward had sweeping consequences for the future development of a state, and, indeed, a nation. The human geography through which the Corps of Discovery passed, as well as the post-expedition impact of Lewis and Clark on the state’s development, is the subject of Lewis & Clark’s Missouri, a traveling panel exhibition that will be available for schools, libraries and public buildings throughout Missouri. This 500-square foot exhibit, developed by the Missouri Historical Society, will feature high-quality color photographs of artifacts, documents, artwork and interpretive text. The lightweight, easy-to-assemble panels provide a flexible format to meet diverse needs.

Logistical Information: Lewis & Clark’s Missouri is available for booking through the Department of Natural Resources’ Missouri State Museum’s traveling exhibition services. The exhibit will be in an easy-to-install format. It will be delivered in three rollable cases, each weighing approximately 100 pounds when loaded and measuring 39 inches high x 32 inches wide by 14 inches deep. An example of the system can be seen at the www.composingroom.com Web site by looking under portable displays. The system being used is called “Evolution Pop-up.”

Two copies of the exhibit are avilable to maximize scheduling opportunities. As a general rule, one exhibit will be scheduled north of the Missouri River and the other one south of the Missouri River. Each exhibit must be scheduled for a minimum of one month and the shipping fee is $300. To check the schedule to see when the exhibits are available and where they have been scheduled, click here.