Cincinnati Ordovician Exhibit

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Dear All:

As you may know, Cincinnati Museum Center is a major regional museum with a
strong program of research, collections, and exhibits/education in the
vertebrate and invertebrate paleontology (please visit our web-site at
http://www.cincymuseum.org). Our unique local heritage of extraordinarily
fossiliferous Upper Ordovician rocks has made Cincinnati a center of
paleontology for the last 150 years, and I'm delighted to announce that
Museum Center is now committed to building an exhibit hall focusing
specifically on our local Cincinnatian fossils. The hall will occupy a
space of about 4000ft2 at a prime spot in the Center's Museum of Natural
History and Science.

The idea of creating a new permanent exhibit hall is tremendously exciting,
and we want it to be the best it possibly can be. My hope it that our hall
will be catalyst for a further burst of community involvement and interest
in local paleontology. In order to achieve that, I want to offer the chance
for anybody to have input into the design of exhibit, so as to make this
project the community's exhibit. This is where we need your help - we need
your ideas. If you are fossil collector - please tell us what you would
like to see in an ideal exhibit. If you are a specialist in paleontology or
paleoenvironments, tell the major themes you'd like to see us communicate.
If you are an exhibits specialist and have any insights or ideas, whiz me
an e-mail. If you have visited any Museums recently and saw something you
thought wonderful (or something you really hated), please let me know.

If you'll permit me a little hyperbole, we want the Museum Center to be the
temple where our citizen's come to marvel at our ancient past, and the hub
from which our community discovers the adventure of exploring the past
anew. I can't promise we can take up all your suggestions, but we certainly
want to hear them.

With grateful thanks,

Nigel

Nigel Hughes
Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology
Cincinnati Museum Center
1720 Gilbert Avenue
Cincinnati
OH 45202

ph. 513 345 8509
fax. 513 345 8501
e-mail: nigel.hughes@uc.edu
URL http://www.uc.edu/~hughesNL/
Museum Center URL http://www.cincymuseum.org