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National Churchill Museum
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http://www.churchillmemorial.org/Pages/default.aspx
The National Churchill Museum is is located on the Westminster College campus in Fulton, Missouri, the site of Churchill's famous "Iron Curtain" speech. The Museum was founded in 1969 to honor the life and legacy of one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century. It is housed within the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury, a 12th century church from the middle of London, redesigned by Sir Christopher Wren in 1677, that was relocated to Fulton. The undercroft of this beautiful and historic Wren church is a museum filled with a priceless treasury of artifacts and information relating to the life and times of Sir Winston Churchill. Churchill himself was intrigued by the imaginative idea of a restored Wren church in America's heartland. He wrote, "It may symbolize in the eyes of the English-speaking peoples the ideals of Anglo-American association on which rest, now as before, so many of our hopes for peace and the future of mankind." The museum tells the story of a hero who led the free world's fight for freedom, from his privileged youth as the son of a British aristocrat to the darkest days of war. This museum provides a chronicle of the life and times of one of the world's most memorable political leaders and serves as a venue for special artistic and historical exhibits, as well as a variety of social and cultural events. The National Churchill Museum is part of the fabric of everyday life on the campus of Westminster College. Students attend church services here, use the extensive resources of the Museum's library for research, and serve as tour guides. Many marriages take place in the Christopher Wren church, a light-filled sanctuary where the poet John Milton was married and where Shakespeare may have worshipped. Most of all, the Museum symbolizes the philosophy upon which the college was founded in 1851. Westminster's reputation for academic excellence begins with the belief that "a freed mind is the chief object of education," an idea vigorously applauded by Sir Winston Churchill. Other world leaders who have followed in Churchill's footsteps and journeyed here to speak at the Museum include: Presidents Reagan, Ford, and Bush; British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; Polish President Lech Walesa; and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev who, fittingly, gave a speech announcing the end of the Cold War and marking the fall of what Churchill had named, "The Iron Curtain."
What we are attracted to on a website: • Dynamic content (i.e. rotating elements, such as found at The Sackler Musesum) o May be used to announce new exhibits and speakers • Able to purchase tickets and museum store merchandise on-line • Able to get information on museum related topics, collections - a “go to the experts” feel • Ease of moving back and forth between topics Some example sites that our folks like: • National Postal Museum http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/museum/1_museum.html but interestingly enough, even as part of the Smithsonian Institute, it does not do sales on line • National Army Museum http://www.nam.ac.uk/ I like the exhibits’ postings and ease of moving between the different topics. • The Sackler Museum http://www.asia.si.edu/ Love the collections sites and the movement on the front page for all the exhibits. • Milwaukee Art Museum http://www.mam.org/ love the movement. Only 10 topics on sidebar and love their wedding page • The Met: I like the spacing, and the light colors - http://www.metmuseum.org/ • Lincoln library: I like how they incorporated lots of images, even pencil drawings for each piece and how everything is compartmentalized, http://www.alplm.org/, http://www.alplm.org/events/calendar_of_events.html • http://www.submarine-museum.co.uk/ • http://www.crmm.org/ http://www.winstonchurchill.org/
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http://www.mam.org/
http://www.asia.si.edu/
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/
We'd like a design that includes a front page and a sample content page Planned elements of our new site: • Main content area o Rotating “spotlight” as described above o Calendar of events • Blog • Online store
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