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Journey Stories -A Request for Proposals-

The Mississippi Humanities Council invites applications for a Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit, Journey Stories. Developed for rural audiences and small museums, libraries, community centers and other non-profit organizations with limited access to traveling exhibits, Journey Stories addresses migration and immigration as they relate to the American experience. In that these topics are directly related to mobility, transportation history and the development of transportation technology play important roles in this presentation.

Journey Stories is the account of immigrants coming in search of promise in a new country; the story of individuals and families relocating in search of fortune, their own homestead, or employment; the harrowing journeys of Africans and Native Americans forced to move; and of course, fun and frolic on the open road. These topics are told by way of engaging images, audio and
and artifacts that illustrate the critical roles travel and movement have played in building our diverse American society.

Additional information on this exhibit is available at the Smithsonian Institution website: www.museumonmainstreet.org. Journey Stories will tour Mississippi from May 2009 through February 2010. The exhibit is composed of portable three dimensional display panels and requires a minimum of 8 feet overhead and 800 square feet of floor space. It will be made available to a limited number of host sites across the state for a period of 4 to 6 weeks each. Sites will be chosen based on geographic location, strength of proposed ideas for complimentary local exhibits and programming, physical display space, and ability to raise matching funds.

David Morgan
601-432-6752
david@mhc.state.ms.us

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