Houston 24 Expo – Virtual Museum Imaging

Virtual Museum Imaging, Friday–Sunday, Hotel ZaZa,

Piano Man Lounge and Houston Museum of Natural Science

The FOHBC Virtual Museum’s Alan DeMaison was ever-present at Houston 24. Alan was set up at Hotel ZaZa to image items for the Museum. You could not miss his traveling studio prominently set up in the Piano Man Lounge. Alan had pre-scheduled a list of collector bottles and a few small collections to image. Every time we looked his way he and Terry Crislip, his VM assistant, were busy at work. It was especially exciting to see him imaging bottles from some young collectors. Alan and his wife, Elaine, remained in Houston at the Houston Museum of Natural Science and imaged the American Antique Glass Masterpieces exhibition on Tuesday and Wednesday, 06 and 07 August and the Wilber-Gugliotti Barber Bottle exhibition on Thursday through Saturday. Alan will spend a couple of weeks processing images before sending them to Miguel Ruiz for website gallery insertion and Ferdinand Meyer for curating and gathering the historical information to accompany the pieces. The Virtual Museum team wants FOHBC members to know that we are low on development funds. As we totally rely on donations, we need to raise funds for the many exciting plans we have to grow the museum. Please refer to page 11 in this issue and help us out!