Master Plan for Exhibits & Interpretation at Lake Union Park

The presentation in addition to the to video format is avalible as a PDF.

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Listen to the Center for Wooden Boats, Executive Director, Betsy Davis give a presentation on the 13 questions that the master plan seeks to answer.

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Listen to the Center for Wooden Boats, Executive Director, Betsy Davis give the second part of a presentation on the 13 questions that the master plan seeks to answer.  

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During the initial brainstorming the following questions were developed to be addressed during the master planning process.  Please review these questions:

1. What is the history of maritime transportation at South Lake Union?

2. How do we design interpretation that is exciting and compelling for kids?

3. How do we support visiting exhibits, particularly boats and vessels?

4. How do Maritime Heritage Organization's best preserve and exhibit their collections at South Lake Union Park?

5. How can Landmark vessels best be preserved and exhibited?

6. How can maritime exhibits and interpretation design support and encourage community involvement?

7. How can exhibits be connected to and integrated into the rest of the city?

8. How can exhibits be connected to and integrated into the rest of the region?

9. How will Native American people, culture and history be featured at South Lake Union Park?

10. What archival collections & materials exist regionally to support maritime exhibits and interpretation?

11. What natural history themes do we want to communicate in exhibits and interpretations?

12. How do we best exhibit and interpret active and recreation maritime working skills?

13. How do we best integrate boat rides into the interactive experience of historic vessels?

Should you have any ideas how best to answer these questions or any questions that we are not currently asking please let us know your thoughts by taking the following 3 minute survey; that will capture your contact details; your initial ideas; and how you would like to participate. 

Thanks in advance for your interest and opinions.   

Click Above for Survey 

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Draft Ideas – Audience

Already, 60,000 people visit The Center for Wooden Boats annually.  An engaging South Lake Union Maritime Park could attract hundreds of thousands of yearly visitors.  This park will mean different things to different people, and the Master Plan seeks to outline who those various park users might be and how to accomadate them.

A extended entry brainstorming about who our audience is below.  Once again should you have any thoughts about the audiences that the park should serve or how it could best serve you, please do not hesitate to comment using the "comments" link below.   

Continue reading "Who are our Audience (who will use the park)? DRAFT" »

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The Center for Wooden Boats is pleased to announce the consultants selected in response to the RFP announcement which ran 07/25/2006 through 8/01/2006 and closed 08/22/2006.

The link below is for a PDF of the announcement: 

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The following document provides the full text of all seven of the requests for Proposal for Consultants for Maritime Heritage Exhibits and Interpretation Master Plan.

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The Notice below was posted in the  Daily Journal of Commerce from 7/25/2006 to 8/22/2006, soliciting consultants to respond to the Request for Proposals.

To download full content of notice please select link below: 

Download Notice to Consultants

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