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Back to the present The University's history museum reopens its doors to the pasts of Oregon and the Northwest BY CANELA WOOD / HALEY GORDON NEWS REPORTER / FREELANCE REPORTER Displays will be dusted off, artifacts brought out of storage and hammers set aside for Saturday’s preview of the new exhibit spaces in the University’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History. Construction that has been in progress since December will be halted to allow visitors to ex perience the museum’s changes and learn about the upcoming events there. During the Saturday preview, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., visitors can see the new permanent ex hibit, “Oregon — Where Past is Present,” which will re-create sights and sounds from Oregon’s past with large hand-painted murals showing the landscapes in four Oregon regions. Artifacts, sound effects, text panels, diagrams and re-creations, like one of a 500-year-old cedar-plank house, will make the exhibit more than glass-cased artifacts. Visitors will be able to watch the exhibit “come to life in three di mensions,” said Cindi Budlong, Museum of Natural and Cultural History exhibit designer. “Because the exhibits we had were getting old, we wanted to restructure to focus on the cultural and natural history of the Northwest,” museum Director C. Melvin Aikens said. The changing exhibit hall will feature “Lewis, Clark & Company: Explorers, Ambassadors and Naturalists,” and will stay at the museum for Danielle Hickey | Photo editor Artist Don Prechtel paints a mural from an oil painting in the Museum of Natural History on Thursday afternoon. The Museum will hold an open house this weekend. six months after the February opening. Other new additions include a theater space and an updated media and education room where children will be able to learn hands-on. “We’ve created it to appeal to school kids and to adults ... It’s quite a challenge to span the whole range,” Aikens said. “It’s a hutnongous improvement; it’s more co hesive and easier for teachers to identify a story instead of bits and pieces,” said Jennifer Willson, a graduate student in education programming. “The preview is intended to show the muse um’s contributors, volunteers, friends and inter ested public how the project is coming along and to thank them for their support,” Aikens said. Cost estimates of the renovation, done by Presentation Design Group, are at about $1 mil lion, said Aikens. The cost of the renovation was covered by private gifts because there was no University appropriation for it, Aikens said. In addition to the preview, the museum will begin its fall lecture series starting at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 22, in the Knight Law Center and continuing for five consecutive Fridays. The se ries will feature “Uncommon Treasures: Stories from the UO Museums and Library Collections." During the preview, visitors can buy member ships at half price, pick up materials on the up coming lecture series and eat and drink free cook ies and punch. The event will “build momentum for our grand re-opening Feb. 11 and 12,” said Judi Pruitt, administrative program assistant. “We want to let people know (the renovation is) happening and coming along. ... I think peo ple will come all day,” Aikens said. canelawood @ dailyemerald. com Haley Gordon is a freelance reporter for the Emerald Decorate your dorm room. Spend time with new friends 2 or re-connect with old friends s a ___ 954 Pearl St. 485-7161 www.brush-fire.com Open 7 days Mon.-Sat. 10-9 Sun. 10-8 FREE PIERCING excluding cost of jewelry Medium Pizza! $7.99 - One Medium 12" 1-Topping Pizza $10.99 - Two Medium 12" Hopping Pizzas Valid on Pan, Thin ’N Crispy® or Hand-Tossed Crust Limited Delivery Area. Delivery Charges Apply. Offer Expires December 28,2004 Large Pizza! $8.99 - One Large 14" 1-Topping Pizza $12.99 - Two Large 14" 1-Topping Pizzas Valid on Pan, Thin 'N Crispy® or Hand-Tossed Crust. Limited Delivery Area. Delivery Charges Apply. Offer Expires December 28,2004 llliplf QnQpiol! $11.99 - One Large 14" 1 -Topping Pizza U U ul\ OpGUIdl. 5 Breadsticks and a 2-Liter of Pepsi Make it Cheesesticks or Cinnamon Sticks tor Only $1 More. Valid on Pan, Thin 'N Crispy® or Hand-Tossed Crust. Limited Delivery Area. Delivery Charges Apply. Offer Expires December 28,2004 Dine-ln Special! $11.99 - One Large 14" 1-Topping Pizza, 10 Breadsticks and Up to 4 Fountain Drinks Make it Cheesesticks or Cinnamon Sticks for Only $2 More. Valid on Pan, Thin 'N Crispy® or Hand-Tossed Crust. Dine-ln Only. Offer Expires December 28,2004 V
