Historic and other site-specific spaces open to the public offer a genuine and comprehensive look into a particular collection and time period. The site is part of that experience. However, for better or worse these sites are not set up as conventional exhibition spaces. One of the main questions we will address is where to draw the line between retaining the authenticity of the experience vs. protecting the objects, the site, and the visitors? In this session we will discuss topics such as housing collections in non-climate controlled spaces, object displays, balancing visitor access with the preservation of the collection and the site, how to incorporate signage, working with a limited or volunteer staff, and on-going conservation and restoration needs. A variety of unique spaces will be presented to address these issues and more as each site has a host of specific circumstances particular to each place that standard exhibition spaces do not have to worry about.

1. Extraordinary Spaces
Site-Specific Collections and Their Challenges

2. Ginger Ridgway
Cabot’s Pueblo Museum
Desert Hot Springs, CA

3.
Cabot’s
Pueblo
Museum

6.
Homesteading

7.
Cabot
Yerxa’s
Pueblo

10. Exhibits
&
Tours

19. Collec0ons

29. Flash
Floods

31.
Ginger
Ridgway,
Director
&
Peggy
Pourtemour,
Registrar
WMA
2013

32. Hikmet Sidney Loe
The Spiral Jetty
Rozel Point, UT

33. The Spiral Jetty
Access and Environment
Hikmet Sidney Loe
Western Museums Association
October, 2013

34. Photo: Gianfranco Gorgoni, 1970

35. Photo: Gianfranco Gorgoni, 1970

36. Chart: J. Wallace Gwynn, DNR, 2010

37. Photo: Mark Ruwedel, 1993

38.
Photo: Clay Perschon, 2003

39.
Photo: Erik Brunvand, 2013

40.
Photo: Dia Art Foundation, 2012

42. 1970 land usage map, Robert Smithson

43. 2013 land ownership map, Rozel Point (Box Elder County)

44. Photo: Paul Stout, 2009

45. Photo: Hikmet Loe, 1996
Photo: Paul Stout, 2004

46. Photos: Dustin Doucet, 2006 (Division of Oil, Gas and Mining)

47. Photos: Hikmet Loe

48. Photo: Russell Costa and Hikmet Loe, 2012

49. Photo: Hikmet Loe, 2004

50. The Spiral Jetty Encyclo: Exploring Robert Smithson’s Earthwork
Through Time and Place
(University of Utah Press, 2015)

51. Department of Natural Resources (Utah)
Dia Art Foundation
The Estate of Robert Smithson, James Cohan Gallery
FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake
Great Salt Lake Institute, Westminster College
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah

52. Emily Utt
Church History Department
Salt Lake City, UT

53. Managing
Historic
Proper=es
Within
the
LDS
Church

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Chandelier
Call
Number:
LDS
79-­‐56-­‐36
Loca0on:
Historic
Sites
Lion
House
Building
Details:
1
Eastlake
chandelier
with
nine
pieces.
A)
Filagreed
brass
hanging
frame
with
four
arms.
B)
four
globes
C)
four
oil
lamps.
Metal
painted
gold.
Glass
cut
and
etched
around
shades.
Electrified.
Subjects:
Lion
House
(Salt
Lake
City)
-­‐-­‐
BF
Ligh=ng
device
Chandelier
Format:
?:
H
95cm
x
W
92cm
H
37.4in
x
W
36.2in.;
metal.
General
Note:
unavailable
Call
Number:
LDS
79-­‐56-­‐36
Access
Number:
224299-­‐MUSM
Provenance:
Lion
House
-­‐
Parlor
Room
Object
Record
Status:
Received

68. • Understand
the
purpose
of
your
site
• Understand
your
collec=on
• Focus
on
collabora=on

69.
Photo:
Nancy
Holt,
1972