John Troutman fell in love with museums at an early age.
He remembers visiting the Smithsonian Institution and its museums as a child when his family would drive from Dothan to visit his uncle, who worked for the federal government in Washington, D.C. When he was 4, a giant green steam locomotive housed in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History caught his imagination.
People are also reading… The exhibit, which opened Friday and will be on display for the next 20 years, features iconic items from music, television, movies, theater, and sports. The exhibit has been in the works for 10 years. “That was my first taste of museum work,” he said. “I wanted to get in any way I could into museums, but I had no idea how to do it. We had no contacts in the museum world.”
He and his wife eventually got jobs with the history department at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette, and he began teaching classes on public history, exhibit development, and the history of museums. The history department acquired a 1954 Airstream camper, stripped it, and created a mobile gallery space. It was fun, Troutman said, as he and the students learned together. He taught at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette for 10 years.
The American History museum maintains about 1.8 million objects with only about 3% of the collection on display at any given time.
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