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Danielle Desjardin posted a reply on Re: Grocery Store Exhibits
Tuesday, Dec 5, 2023 at 10:22 AM
Said: Jackie, This is awesome!! Thank you for sharing pictures. Your foods are beautiful! I have to agree, even as an adult seeing the real food inside the jar just hits differently than the boxes with pictures.We just st...
Jackie Hobbins posted a reply on Re: Grocery Store Exhibits
Tuesday, Dec 5, 2023 at 10:16 AM
Said: We've tried many things over the years. This time, we opted for a more natural foods store aesthetic. We have play fruits and veg and then PET plastic jars with real food items in them. The jars can be sorted by type of food, amount of ...
Jessica Brubaker posted a reply on Re: Best Practices and Bloopers for new museums
Tuesday, Dec 5, 2023 at 9:22 AM
Said: Happy to chat. We're a STEAM makerspace for kids and their grownups and opened in York, PA in October 2021.
Danielle Desjardin posted a reply on Re: Grocery Store Exhibits
Tuesday, Dec 5, 2023 at 8:32 AM
Said: We purchase boxes in different sizes from Uline, stuff them with a pre-sized heavy duty piece of foam core then shrink wrap them. On the outside of each box before shrink wrapping we put stickers; they are designed made in house for Oat...
David Lopez posted a new Topic
Monday, Dec 4, 2023 at 6:44 PM
Grocery Store Exhibits
If you are a museum with a grocery store I would like to know how everyone is keeping their shelves stocked. We currently bring in our old boxes of cereal, pasta, mac n cheese or whatever other boxes, stuff them with coroplast and then wrap them with box tap. We have seen our most success with this method but I am wondering if anyone has a better method or solution.
Are their durable faux grocery store boxes that you can buy without having to stuff and kid proof? or if the o...
Are their durable faux grocery store boxes that you can buy without having to stuff and kid proof? or if the o...
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