Empty

Our traveling exhibits hall is now empty.  Granted, it will only remain this way for about a week, but it's poetic in a way.  We work so hard to find an exhibit, go through all the paper work, and set up a delivery time.  Once it arrives we have to figure out how to set it up (sometimes they send people, but a lot of the time they do not).  We publicize to the point of redundancy but we need to get the word out.  Our educators work hard trying to get school groups here.  When it is our spring exhibit we then have 3 months of school children usually twice a day almost every day.  So much is put into these exhibits and then it comes down in one or two days.  It's always sad.  You get used to seeing it in this space.  You think:  "did the kids like it?" "did I learn anything from this?" "what can we do different next time?".  But this is why we are here, so we keep doing it and try to find something new and exciting for our patrons.