A site for the preservation and display of large technology and industrial heritage
Big Stuff 2013 Conference
Creator: Alison Wain Date: 2013 Introduction: The ways in which producers of large technology heritage choose to present their objects from a visual and aesthetic point of view are highly varied, and they are influenced by factors including personal preference, philosophy, available skills and straight cost. Broadly though, they can be grouped into four distinct … Read more
Creator: Bethan Stanley Date: 2013 Introduction: At first glance, JW Evans, Silverware Factory,appears to bean unprepossessing group of houses amongst other accommodation. However, behind these four Victorian terraced houses is a treasure trove of drop stamps, presses, furnaces, tools, archives and records from over 120 years of a manufacturing silverware factory. Located in Birmingham’s jewellery … Read more
Creator: Joe Sembrat, Patty Miller & Mark Rabinowitz Date: 2013 Reference: Joe Sembrat, Patty Miller & Mark Rabinowitz, ‘The Planning, Preparation, and Display of the Atlantis Orbiter’, Big Stuff 2013 DOI Link: Sembrat, Joe, Miller, Patty, & Rabinowitz, Mark. (2013). The Planning, Preparation, and Display of the Atlantis Orbiter. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4087207
Creator: Jeff Noakes Date: 2013 Introduction: The Canadian War Museum (CWM) preserves and displays a sizeable collection of large military technology artifacts, including weapons and vehicles, in its LeBreton Gallery. This collection is publicly displayed so that visitors can better understand the military technology that Canadians have used, faced, and experienced in times of peace … Read more
Creator: Louise Pothier Date: 2013 Introduction: Pointe-‐à-‐Callièreis a “site museum” built in 1992 over Montréal’s birthplace. It preserves and displays archaeological remains and collections dating from the 13thto 19thcenturies and bearing witness to the city’s growth and Montrealers’ lives. Reference: Louise Pothier, ‘From Visible to Invisible Overseeing the archaeological remains at Pointe-à-Callière, the Montréal Archaeology … Read more
Creator: Valerie Monahan Date: 2013 Introduction: Yukon Territory is famous as the location of one of the largest industrial/mass migration events in modern history: the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898. Gold lured thousands of would-be miners into one of the most remote areas on Earth. In what became the Elsa/Keno district of central Yukon, gold … Read more
Creator: Diane Mitchell Date: 2013 Introduction: The Britannia Mine Museum is a National Historic Site that lies about 50 km north of Vancouver in British Columbia. The Museum is governed by the Britannia Beach Historical Society and operates as a tourist attraction which sees around 60,000 visitors and 10,000 students a year exploring the history … Read more
Creator: Marta Leskard Date: 2013 Abstract: The Science Museum has more than 95% of its large objects, from the science, technology, industry, communications, transport, space and medicine collections, in storage. Not all are robust, of single material construction; many are susceptible to environmental changes or are fragile; many are composed of materials which have different … Read more
Creator: Irene Karsten, Simon Lambert, Sue Warren & Stefan Michalski Date: 2013 Introduction: A risk management perspective keeps the focus on the goal of preventive conservation, which is to “[convey] a collection, with as much and as many possible values intact, from one point in time to a point in time in the future” (Waller … Read more
