1. How to Design an Exhibit

2. What is an Exhibit? An Exhibit displays items to tell a historical, An Exhibit displays items to tell a historical, educational, or personal story. educational, or personal story. What story do you want What story do you want to tell? to tell?

3. What are the Parts of an Exhibit? Title Artifacts Photographs Informational Graphics: ChartsMapsPosters Labels “Coming to Montana”

5. When immigrants came to Montana, they brought their (main topic here) with them. The Main Text Label they brought their Holiday Traditions Holiday Traditions

6. The Objects

7. Secondary Labels What is it? Where did it come from? Who uses it? Name of Object Immigrant Group One or two sentence description of the object Menorah Jewish A menorah is a special candle holder. Jews display their menorah during the holiday of Hanukah.

8. Photographs Brief description of the photograph Immigrant group Date and place of photo (if known)

9. Brief description of the photograph Immigrant group Date and place of photo (if known) Croatian immigrants celebrating Mesopust Anaconda, 1936 World Museum of Mining

10. World Map Immigrants came to Montana from many parts of the world. The immigrants represented in this display came from (list countries). Germany and Croatia.

11. Coming to Montana When Immigrants came to Montana, they brought their holiday traditions with them. Menorah Jewish A menorah is a special candle holder. Jews display their menorah during the holiday of Hanukah. Croatian immigrants celebrating Mesopust. Anaconda, 1936. World Museum of Mining Immigrants came to Montana from many parts of the world. The immigrants represented in this display came from Germany and Croatia.