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Article: Banner day for the South Charleston Museum
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
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- August 30, 2009
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Big things come in small packages. In 230 square feet, the early
history of a city will be told through art, artifacts, videos, audio
and other tricks of the museum trade.
The South Charleston Museum's "Belgian Glassworkers and the
Founding of South Charleston: 1907-1928" will open Sept. 12 next to
the Mound Interpretive Center in the LaBelle Theater building.
"Like the new State Museum, there's a feeling of being there in a
moment in time," explained Stan Bumgardner, who designed the South
Charleston museum and who worked as the creative director for the
State Museum renovation at the Culture Center. "The display will
come complete with mannequins, a couple of furnaces and a cutting
table ...