Year: 2014

Thanks for the Maps Cases!

The City of Greeley History Museums Exhibits and Collections teams recently had the pleasure of relocated several map cases and a large shelving unit. The inspiration for all this moving was a donation of map cases from the USDA Weld County Farm Service Agency...

Making Manny the Mannequin: Week 4

Over the course of the last three weeks, Manny has gone from being an Ethafoam rectangle to a realistic (and appropriately dirty) beet laborer. After all that hard work, he waited patiently in the museums Exhibits Office before being relocated to his new home. By...

Internship: 3 Months

Recently as part of my internship with Greeley Museums I had the opportunity to assist moving three of the Meeker letters, currently on display at the Greeley History Museum. The letters are part of a collection long ago saved from the dumpster by a little boy who was...

Making Manny the Mannequin: Week 3

Over the last two weeks, I have been making a mannequin to represent the story of the sugar beet laborers that lived in Greeleys Spanish Colony neighborhood. My goal has been to allow the museums visitors to understand and appreciate the story of the laborers with...

Making Manny the Mannequin: Week 2

Last week, I completed the first phase of making a mannequin to be displayed in the Greeley History Museums upcoming exhibit about Greeleys Spanish Colony. My goal was to tell the story of the Spanish Colony sugar beet laborers without words or pictures. Every...