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| Valdez Museum's new permanent exhibit "A Moving Experience" |
The Valdez Museum's new permanent exhibit, A Moving
Experience, provides a variety of hands-on experiences to capture what it might
have been like during the 1964 earthquake in old town Valdez. A visitor can open countertop
drawers to find quake related artifacts in a 1960’s kitchen setting. Copies of local
newspapers, covering the earthquake story, lay on the colorful patterns that jump out at you from the
kitchen countertop. One booklet on display holds instructions on how to
properly move your belongings from old Valdez to the new Valdez town site.
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Credit card display at the Valdez Museum's,
new permanent exhibit, "A Moving Experience" |
My favorite display was built by Andrew Goldstein and I. It houses a credit card machine that was used to purchase gas in 1964 at Dieringer’s
Standard Gas Station in old town. Mary Jo Migliaccio used her husband’s credit
card but left it behind in the machine. Shortly after she headed back to
retrieve it. When the earthquake began, she abandoned all efforts and fled to
safety. The card and machine were buried, destined to become a part of history.
A couple found both in 2004 buried at the former site.
The credit card display base was cut from ethafoam. We poured Jade 403 Adhesive over a half a
bucket of gravel. After the glue became tacky the gravel was spread on the tops and
sides of the ethafoam square cutout. As the glue dried clear it created a nice,
even gravel bed for the credit card to be displayed on. A large triangle was
cut and covered with gravel to hold the cc machine at an angle the
viewers could see. The original card is still in the machine. A large text
panel accompanies the display explaining the history of the card.
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