PR: ANA Museum Curator Lends Hand to Nevada State Museum

American Numismatic Association

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 23, 2003
CONTACT: Stephen Bobbitt
Telephone: 719-632-2646 ext. 113
E-mail:

ANA Museum Curator Lends Hand to
Nevada State Museum at Carson City Mint

American Numismatic Association (ANA) Money Museum Curator Lawrence
Lee visited the Nevada State Museum and is assisting in the development
of its numismatic exhibits.
"The staff at the Nevada museum, which is in the old Carson City
Mint building, is creating new exhibits that will emphasize the history
of the minting and mining that helped in developing the state," says Lee,
who was invited to deliver the museum's keynote Bretzlaff Lecture earlier
this month and spend several days in the Nevada capital reviewing plans
and offering advice. "We discussed the goal and look of the exhibits,
evaluated the current collection, and surveyed the overall museum. When
completed, it will be an ideal destination for not only the casual
visitor but serious numismatists as well."
Opened in 1870 to handle the gold and silver extracted from Nevada
mines, the United States branch mint struck coins, on and off, for more
than 20 years. It later served as an assay office before it ceased all
operations in 1933. The Nevada State Museum is a division of the state's
Department of Cultural Affairs, which "serves and enriches the lives of
Nevada's citizens and visitors."
Robert A. Nylen and Sue Ann Monteleone, curator and registrar,
respectively, of the Nevada State Museum, have taken "Numismatics for the
Museum Professional" at the ANA Summer Seminar in Colorado Springs,
Colorado. The museum's exhibits coordinator, Ray Geiser, plans to take
the class next summer. Taught by Lee and Douglas Mudd, collection manager
for the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian
Institution, the week-long course guides museum professionals who are
unfamiliar with numismatic material in the attribution, cataloging,
handling, storage, interpretation and mounting of such specimens.
Officials at the Nevada museum also are considering hosting a special,
on-site ANA seminar for their entire staff.
Funded by the Bretzlaff Foundation Fund, a philanthropic
organization that promotes cultural programs in northern Nevada, Lee's
address marked the first time the foundation's focus was on numismatics.
His Bretzlaff address coincided with the annual Carson City Mint Coin
Show, and was taped for airing on cable access television in Reno, Carson
City and other northern Nevada communities.
"I am honored to be invited to participate in this project and help
spread the good name of the ANA," Lee says.
For more information about the class for museum professionals or
other classes offered at the American Numismatic Association's 36th
Annual Summer Seminar, June 26-July 1 and July 3-8, contact the ANA
Education Department, 818 N. Cascade Ave., Colorado Springs, CO
80903-3279; phone 719-632-2646; fax 719-634-4085; or e-mail
.

From: ana

... Nevada State Museum at Carson City Mint ...

Been there. Great place to visit.

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