Historically Significant Artifacts

Re/Collections

Re/Collections is co-curated by three talented colleagues: the director of The Main Street Museum, David Fairbanks Ford, Fleming Museum curator Janie Cohen, and Firehouse Center for the Arts curator Pascal Spengemann.

The Fleming’s collections are awash in the remarkable, the ignored, and the formerly significant. The Main Street Museum is renown for its own remarkable trove of astonishing items of both natural-historical and aesthetic interest. These two collections, combined with carefully chosen artifacts from Vermont’s thrift stores, set out to plumb the depths of the very idea of the museum and curating. The exhibition strategies utilized here harken back to the inclusiveness of the Fleming’s formative years. Juxtapositions of objects previously unconnected can produce an electrifying tableau—the resultant combination exceeding the sum of its parts. So, too, the cohesion of the collections and perspectives of the Fleming Museum, the Main Street Museum and significant second-hand store presentations.

• Household Items
  • Food for the Apocalyspe
  • Historic Glassware and "Stand-ins" for Historic Glassware
• Objects Associated with Vermont or New Hampshire Artists
• Objets d'Art
• Pictures
• Recreated Artifacts Denied by Dartmouth Realia
• Silt from the 1927 Flood
• Things, or Fragments of Things Once Owned by, or Associated with, Notable People—Particularly Notable Vermonters