Julie's Journal 3/29/2010

Julie Johnson is the new Director of the Detroit Children's Museum under its new association with the Detroit Science Center. Julie will be blogging her thoughts as she works toward the reopening of this Detroit institution! Here is her fifth post:

Another week has flown by and we are in the process of doing inventory on all 100,000 artifacts, furniture, and supplies. My team is awesome and we are 1/3rd of the way complete. Thanks to the extra hands from the DSC presentation staff we are well on our way. We also started our planetarium sky projector today. The moon and moon phases were great. The stars moved and we even have a laser pointer working. Today was a GOOD day! We have received several calls from teachers requesting lending collection items to be used in their classrooms. We are gathering the materials and are looking forward to working with all of them.

As a special note: we are taking a high resolution photo of our Japanese doll "Miss Akita" for a photography show in Ohio. We are very excited that she will be highlighted with many other dolls from around the world.

Talk with all of you soon.

Julie