Hastings Museum Staff Retention Initiative and Second Floor Comprehensive Exhibit Plan

FAIN: AH-274795-20

City of Hastings (Hastings, NE 68901-3062)
Rebecca Matticks (Project Director: May 2020 to October 2021)

Continued employment of five staff members who will develop a comprehensive exhibit plan for the museum’s renovated second floor.

Retain five key staff members during a critical phase of an intense, ongoing project to renovate the second floor of the Museum. During this key window of time, Museum staff will closely collaborate with an external design firm and develop a Comprehensive Exhibit Plan for the entire top floor of the Museum—approximately half of the Museum’s overall exhibition space, 17,000 square feet. This project will simultaneously: 1) Determine what stories we are best equipped to tell by conducting an updated collections inventory; 2) Specify where physically exhibits would go and how stories could flow into each other and complement one another; 3) Consider structural strengths and limitations of the physical space including plumbing, electrical, and sight lines; 4) Plan the best way to relocate and update a popular permanent exhibit to the top floor; and 5) Define the elements of a new permanent exhibit to tell the story of Nebraska’s Naval Ammunition Depot and the people it profoundly affected.