Welcome to the National Bread Museum's

NEEDS - for The Project

Email me, Donna – the Founder – at breadmuseum@aol.com if you have questions, suggestions,
can or would help in some way, etc.  

Regarding the National Bread Museum of Grain-Baking-Bread Culture (NBM)

Tins of Taste Museum (TTM)

Cultural Heritage & Immigration Museum (CHIM)

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Let's begin with "speaking engagements," newsprint articles, social media - - - getting the word out, presenting the need of the intangible - intrinsic - and inherent value of the project, especially for current younger, but also, future generations.  There are multiple ways for various audiences (according to age &/or position in life) to be given the message - especially with "show 'n tell," inter-active cultural heritage associations, ancestral studies and gleaning "grandma's" stories, personal enrichment for our community, tourism growth, and such.  


To move this project forward, the greatest need today is three-fold . . . people, money, a facility:

1) the people who will help obtain the funding to carry out the project of creating the museum complex in an on-land facility by helping to secure connections & relationships with donors; 

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2) immediate volunteer needs:

2a) an Advisory Board, & to file & obtain a 501(c)(3), create bylaws & other necessary documents; 

2b) an Executive Board;

2c) people of subject-matter knowledge of the 3 museums to help create this museum project;

2d) volunteer help to:
---d1) manage Social Media to advertise the NBM project, monetary $upport,
---d2) give or obtain a temp space to work in for a year or until a museum facility is available, 
---d3) documenting, photographing artifacts, measuring, researching for background info, 
cataloguing all artifacts in the core collections,
---d4) seeking a potential exhibit-display designer for ideas,

---d5) seeking an overall museum designer/s to begin to lay out flooring & display ideas,
---d6) additional various volunteers who want to help in a myriad of ways, seeing a way to fill an unmentioned need, giving varying amounts of time, counsel, suggestions, & advice; identifying connections with other people to reach certain goals. 

2e) people who will keep their eye out for 
---e1) baking-related artifacts of yesteryear to contribute to the historical preservation of Grandma's baking history; objects & collectibles of design or with words; ephemera (paper items usually throw-ways):  representing history via old women's magazines, cookbooks & pamphlets-fliers-ads-posters, boxes, containers, bags, etc.; bills of lading & other receipts of grain-flour-bread-mills-etc.,
---e2) unique tins of history related to the USA or world for the Tins of Taste Museum;
---e3) Cultural Heritage artifacts . . . 1st if the artifacts are related to cultural baking; . . . 2nd, if the artifacts are significant representations of the country/a people group.  (There are millions, so it's not a matter of "getting/keeping" it all.  No, it's the value of the historical significance of an item - - how does it tell a story of the people it represents?)

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3) The third item is to identify a restoration building or decide on a newly built structure, either with ample parking.  I had always hoped for something with an "old world" atmosphere . . . inside & out, but I don't know if that is realistic for all options.  If the outside must be of a modern design, I'm hoping for the inside design and atmosphere to give off a warmth and aged feeling.

Extra - People of museum knowledge with a heart interest in the subject matter who can work with me, the Founder, to advise on any individual museum project or advise the connectivity of all regarding the above information.


Who might be volunteers?

As the Founder of this project, besides having collected and researched background information of so many of the actual artifacts, all the dreams for this museum project are a creation of thought and ambition as a gift to this country.  So, too, is this website.  Therefore, to those reading this, you might see yourself fulfilling a role, or know of people "of talents, skills, and/or interests" to whom you'd mention the needs in which they can  help.  Or, also, you might see a need you'd be willing to fill which I haven't thought about, nor am aware of.

This museum project needs the hearts & souls of people:

- who have appreciation and gratitude for their generations of grandmothers and would like to help preserve her legacy through historical preservation of her baking artifacts, primarily 1850-1999;

- who have an interest in antiques, especially kitchenalia and related ephemera;

- who would photo artifacts with a cell phone & document the info (or separate tasks), or do background research;

- who have an interest in art, calligraphy, graphic design, and history, etc. (regarding the exquisite lithographed tins);  there's a need to research the history behind each company represented by a tin for a short story of interest; 

who'd have an interest to 1) photograph tins with a cell phone; 2) measure each tin; 3) annotate on paper &/or type the tin info on a computer with the cell phone photos;

- who'd create fun, curious, interactive learning programs regarding the subject matter of these museums;  if you've been a traveler throughout your life, been to multiple museums throughout states &/or countries, you would have ideas to contribute;

Regarding the COOKBOOK CULTURE area, there are hundreds of books which need to be photographed, measured, documented/typed on a computer for an archive database.  

- Videos &/or written stories could be obtained from grandmothers regarding her early life of baking, "the way it was," the "make do" situations, the "tradition" of making a special recipe & why, background info of her mom or grandma's baking.  So many other avenues of baking history could be explored & told by those of "The Greatest Generation" and the early half of the Baby Boomer generation before we are all gone.  


Who would the museums benefit?

Who would have an interest in them?

Who would they affect?

Who would these museums & this subject matter relate to?

Regarding the National Bread Museum & the Cultural Heritage & Immigration Museum:

The curious!  Seekers of past, baking history, especially in their grandmothers' eras.  

Home Baking Enthusiasts

Tourism for Omaha & Nebraska; travelers local, state, country, and world wide.

Home Economic teachers; Pastry Chefs; Food Journalists, Food-related Travel writers, Video Makers (YouTube, etc.); Baking Seminar Teachers; Bakers, and all other people in such-related professions.

All school programs (middle through university) with Home Economics and related programs and classes.

Everyone in 4-H, Scouts, & related programs with projects related to food, especially using grains & baking.

Culinary Institute Schools – Admin, Instructors, Students.

People of all walks of life of all ages who want to learn how to bake, how to eat healthier with less processed food, and without the general high cost of a recipe/food program or other adult ed school class.

Also, people who are in need of 1) a readjustment or healing with their mental, psychological, of physical health,
2) a hobby or new interest in life, 3) a way to reduce stress, and 4) developing other positive-focused skills.  Rehabilitation via baking - especially yeast breads, or discovering a hidden art talent in creating baked goods, has become a healing through various worldwide baking programs (such as Bread Houses Network which began in Bulgaria).  

Historical Societies of all cultural heritage groups throughout this country -- local, county, state, regional with home-kitchen areas of displaying artifacts.

Members / Friends of all the cultural heritage groups throughout this country -- you may want to be a contributor to a page representing your culture on this website or a people group within a nation, telling of the historical significance of bread and baking in that community, and with specific historical "photos for the process" or artifacts to carry out those special baked goods, etc., etc.  (I'm thinking of the above-the-ground, outdoor ovens in the country of Georgia where they slap the dough on the inside wall of the hot, wood-fired "bread-baking oven.")

Collectors of "kitchenalia" artifacts who have an interest in historical preservation for their future generations, and would want to tell a story about the item/s.

Foremost, German-based Communities & their Historical Societies regarding the baking-kitchenalia artifact history & the German food/baking influence in this country (vast immigration throughout the 1800s and early 1900s).  Also, all the other Americans who identify with German as part of their ancestry.  

Bread Culture-related companies who've been benefactors the past 175 years with financial support by home bakers (i.e. grocery shoppers) buying the products for baking (100s of related companies). This list seems endless, beginning with grains & flours – grain milling businesses & companies & industries; then the businesses or companies of every other possible "ingredient" that goes into baked goods.

Manufacturing companies which have become benefactors of the purchases made for all uses in the home for baking. Include bakeware and products like wax & parchment paper, measuring cups & spoons, fabric-ware (aprons, towels), and dozens of other items.

Cereal and other grain-based companies, such as everyone who grinds grains into flour.

MEDIA: Magazines and related periodicals (especially those known as "food magazines") filled with recipes who've benefitted financially from having subscribers.

Cookbook authors, and the journalists of any remaining "women's pages" or a "food/recipe section" still in a print newspaper.

All agricultural-related associations, departments, boards, foundations, trusts, companies, businesses, groups, affiliations, advocacy groups, programs, etc.

All internet ---- Baking-related online blogs, websites, podcasts, social media outlets, YouTube videos, Instagram posts, etc. 

All grandparents who want to be remembered!

All grandmas who "remember when," and will look at one of their kitchen utensils, baking pans, cookie cutters, recipe books, etc., and write a background story about it to a grandchild (maybe one item per grandchild as a  fabulous family history), and like a time capsule, have the grandchild get it as their 50th birthday gift!

The same can be said and done by grandpas if they have an agricultural/gardening background with a tool they treasured and used for years or decades, and couldn't have done without!  There ARE stories attached to these items.  (When I cleaned out the 2nd of our parents' houses, I set 5, blue, Ball canning jars from the basement, onto the kitchen counter - 1 each for my sisters, brother, & me.  When going through the house of countless drawers, closets, cubby holes, & storage boxes, the wood-working garage/machine shop, backyard storage shed, & attic areas, & coming across an item of the former farm or past life days, I'd gather 5 examples - one per jar.  Things such as S&H green stamps, Dad's 1-2" stub woodworking pencils, the old square nails, pieces of jewelry, diaper pins, a swatch of a dress fabric or lace, & on & on - all "memories" of "growing up!"  These became precious treasured Memory Jars for each of us. - - - remembering - - - to not forget - - - & now teaching the grandkids to learn and to not forget with a visual object or written story.)

When we have an on-land museum, all grandmothers with a close "ethnic-country nationality-heritage" recipe they've made in their home for decades, will be invited to give a presentation & demonstration in the museum's  Baking Mill school for the community!  (As in one community in this country, this may also evolve into a coffee & cake gathering place/bakery where volunteers make "their ethnic recipe/s" the day they are in "the bake shop." You never know what will be available, all depending on the schedule of bakers of the day!  It fulfills a way for many elderly to have a place and purpose in their days, by baking for others.) ❤  

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Regarding The Tins of Taste Museum  -  Exclusive in & for this country, this has already been established in the online website, & when on land, will be the first lithographed food-tin museum of its kind. 

Question:  WHO will it benefit, affect, relate to?

- Art enthusiasts.  Graphic Designers.  Calligraphers.    

- History buffs, teachers, writers, researchers, food historians, & others.

- Travelers to countries who'd be on the lookout for a specialty tin of food representative of that country in some way (who'd eat the food - usually cookies, cake, a sweet bread of some sort, candy, etc.), but donate the tin to this museum!

- People (especially children and the younger students) who dream of traveling to far-away places to see the subjects on the tins.  Eventually the tins will be a photographic world-wide tour!  This relates to everyone having a "basic knowledge" to at least have some idea/concept of the "world" of art history, icons, and geography.  Everyone should be walking around with an implanted image of a flat world map or the globe in people's minds, so when someone mentions a city/state of the USA, or a country of the world, in one's mind they can "see" it.  In the 1950s in 4th grade, everyone memorized the 48 (at that time) states, & in 5th grade we memorized all the capitals.  Geography was a year-long study as a high school sophomore, & we learned the countries of the world.  The final for a son's H. S. test in 2004 was identity of 200 countries.  It doesn't seem to be that way anymore!  

- Students & the adults who don't know of the connections to literature, people, events, & "signs of the times" depicted on the tins, and of the international and U.S. companies which have or still produce those food products, and more.  The subject matter on the tins help teach across many subjects of knowledge.  

- All people who enjoy museums for their enjoyment, enrichment, educational benefit, beauty, recall of memories of times past, benefits of seeing artifacts of history, collections, and more.

- and the list goes on!

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Generation to Generation Friendships

This project is more than a museum. It is a center of sharing and learning, preserving by passing on (& I don't mean by death🙏!).  Included would be on-going programs throughout the year such as training in special interest areas through Study Centers of each aspect of the museums.  This would be extended through schooling sessions, seminars, workshops, research training, skill-building, and much more connected with the content of the museums themselves.
 An additional vision would be taking advantage of the grandparent generation who have knowledge and skills which they could pass on to the younger ones.  This is a two-fold benefit:
1) Many young people, due to moves/jobs by parents, and separated from their own elderly family members, would have social interaction with people of the "grandparent" age.
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Also, there are many "old time" handcrafts skills which could be passed on to younger generations (even young, middle-age adults), which will disappear with the passing of the elderly.  But, an interactive program of offering the elderly to teach and pass on these otherwise, lost crafts, will benefit both teacher and student!  Again, it's a matter of historical preservation in our culture.

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