At the Roosevelt Library, we completed a full redo of our permanent exhibit in 2013. And joining me today to discuss how these projects are done is clay bauske, the supervisory curator at the Harry S Truman president ial museum in missouri. Clay and his team are in the final stages of redoing their permanent exhibit. Where do things stand right now and what is your projected opening date for the new permanent exhibit . Clay we are probably within two months of having the new exhibits done and ready to open. The big question with all the libraries is when will the libraries actually open to the public. We are not really sure about that, but the work on our new permanent exhibits we are within two months of being done. Herman so the exhibits are being installed as we speak . Clay yes. Essentially all of the general construction in our museum we went in and had contractors literally rip out everything in the museum and start from scratch. That included installing all new walls in the exhi
Eberhardt from the friendly d roosevelt president ial library and clay bauske of the president truman president ial library talk about the factors that led to the remaking of their museums and the thought that goes into overhauling their exhibits. The two discuss what their job as curators entail. The fdr president ial library hosted the conversation and provided video. The am Herman Eberhardt at franklin was of a president ial library and museum and i want to welcome you to a new series of programs featuring conversations between me and curators at other president ial libraries. In this series we will explore the various jobs and roles of museum curators. Today we will be talking about one of the most important and complicated jobs of a curator, developing new Museum Exhibits. Curators are responsible for providing new changing exhibits on special topics on a regular basis in their museums. They also make periodic alterations to the museums larger permanent exhibits to reflect changin
And some of the global science education. We do a lot of partnerships with texas a m university. We have exhibits that are here longterm and shortterm, we do lots of childrens education, and we have some live animals. I would like to show you a few things about our museum that we are so proud of. If you will look over this a muraln, you will see we are incredibly proud of. It was done by a nationally recognized artist, emma stark. It was painted on site and has been here since about 1993, 1995. Its the only place where you can see the brazos valley as it was 12,000 years ago. Some of the animals portrayed in the mural were the predecessors of our modern species. 12,000 years ago, we had liens, tigers and bears in the brazos valley. That is something a lot of our visitors enjoy looking at, the 50 different species portrayed in the mural. If you look hard enough, you can see the early people who live here in that time. Ourof the things in collection we are very proud of is our ice age ma
George floyd 4 minneapolis por uses to similar but a different kind of restraint blamed for killing floyd. As calls to defund the police grow louder some democratic lawmakers say the message is often misinterpreted a los angeles representative Nanette Barragan says the idea is to invest money taken from police and put it into things like housing and education, supporters argue that some cities are overspending on police and at the expense of other Community Investments. Senator Kamala Harris is arguing that more Community Investment is a way to make neighborhoods safer. We have confuse. Having safe communities with hiring more cops on the street. The White House Press secretary says Defunding Police does take away essential resources from law enforcement. She says theres just no interpretation of this proposal that the president will support. We talked today to San Franciscos police chief to get his take and well have more on that coming up. Time for another check on the forecast lets
This museum has been in our community for almost exceed years, and it is an important part of the community because we highlight the local natural history, local cultural history, and even some of the local science education. We do a lot of partnerships with texas a m university. We have exhibits that are longterm and shortterm. We do lots of childrens education, and we even have some live animals. I would like to show you a few things about our museum that we are so proud of. If you look over this direction, you will see a mural that we are incredibly proud of. It was done by a nationally recognized artist, painted on site. It has been here since about 1993, 1995, and it is the only place where you can see the brazos valley as it was 12,000 years ago and realize that some of the animals that are portrayed in the mural where the predecessors of our modern species. 12,000 years ago, we have lions, tigers, and bears in the brazos valley. That is something a lot of our visitors really enj