I've just had a short visit to the exhibition. It's spectacular. I strongly recommend that all fans of LMM visit it. Thanks to everyone involved with the exhibition for making it available to fans like me! I, for one, am very grateful.
Below is the original press release from
the Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island,
Canada. It was sent to me and I'm happy to share it with you:
"The Virtual Museum of Canada of the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN)
will soon include a virtual exhibition led by the Confederation Centre Art Gallery
and Museum in partnership with the L.M. Montgomery Institute at the University
of Prince Edward Island, the National Library of Canada, the University of Guelph,
and the L.M. Montgomery Birthplace. Curated by Dr. Elizabeth Epperly, the
bilingual virtual exhibition, entitled "Picturing a Canadian Life: L.M.
Montgomery's Personal Scrapbooks and Book Covers," will be launched onto
the World Wide Web in August 2002. Jon Tupper, director of the Confederation
Centre Art Gallery and Museum, says that the Gallery is pleased to be the lead
institution in this impressive Virtual Museum of Canada partnership. "We
are all providing funding, expertise, and services to complement the Virtual
Museum of Canada investment." "This virtual museum project is
the first, in fact, of many exciting partnerships with which the Confederation
Centre Art Gallery and Museum is currently engaged," Tupper said. łOn-line
projects are so important to our work to present and promote Canadian and Island
art and artists in Canada and around the world. Through the Internet we can bring
together so many images with text with optional enhancements, such as video
and audio clips, for many different audiences with assurance of accessibility,
and for no cost to the visitor." "This is a thrilling project--with
significant partners and so much rich and largely unexamined material to work
with," said curator Dr. Elizabeth Epperly, founder of the L.M. Montgomery
Institute at U.P.E.I. "We are all pleased Montgomery's carefully preserved
but fragile memorabilia can be protected and shared through the Virtual Museum." Materials
being gathered for the online exhibition have never been brought together before;
it comes from five archival and museum collections. Two of the Island author's
personal scrapbooks are at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery and Museum and,
during the summer months, the L.M. Montgomery Birthplace, and four are housed
in the University of Guelph's extensive holdings, which also include Montgomery's
journals and photographs. Three hundred images of cover art on first editions
of L.M. Montgomery's novels are from the "Ronald I. Cohen Lucy Maud Montgomery
Collection" at the National Library of Canada in Ottawa. In addition, the
L.M. Montgomery Institute's footage from its award-winning CD, "The Bend
in the Road," will also be included in the virtual exhibition.
The exhibition will be housed and maintained under the direction of the Confederation
Centre of the Arts. The target audience includes students from elementary to
graduate school; teachers of Canadian literature, history, culture, women's
studies, and visual arts; Montgomery scholars and readers; cultural tourists;
artists; historians; conservators; and the multitudes of Montgomery enthusiasts
around the world."
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