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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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. 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.
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:
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.
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.
Historical Societies local, county, state, regional with home-kitchen areas of displaying artifacts.
Collectors of "kitchenalia" artifacts who have an interest in historical preservation for their future generations, and maybe want to tell stories about the items.
German-based Communities - their Historical Societies regarding the artifact history & influence with this country (late 18, early 1900s), and the Lebkuchen tin collection.
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 business or company 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, & dozens of other items.
Cereal and other grain-based companies.
MEDIA: Magazines and related periodicals (especially known "food magazines") filled with recipes who've benefitted financially from having subscribers.
Cookbook authors, and the few journalists of "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 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!
- 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 this country, the first lithographed food-tin museum. 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 (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 it will be a photographic world-wide tour!
- Students & the adults who don't know of the connections to literature, people, events, & "signs of the times" represented on the tins, and U.S. companies which have or still produce those food products, and more.
- All people who enjoy museums for their enjoyment, 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.
2) 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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