Fort Miles Battery 519 Exhibit Ideas
NORTH END = Plotting Room Display and Cold War Museum
North Gun Room 52' X 31'	North Motor Generator Room 17' X 22'	North Store Room 11.5' X 22'	North Shell Room 42' X 22'	North Powder Room 66' X 22'	North Dehumidifier/Work Room 26' X 22'	Power Room 45' X 22'
BumbleBee and ramjet display. Plotting room with commo setup. fire control computer. radar? U-858, Bode etc display U-boats to Russian sub connection?? Coastal defense to Nike transition Coastal defense history. time line of battleship to bomber to missiles. LARC BARC display. LORAN? radio triangulation "Wired for War" as a display title somewhere?						Need radio and room chatter Keep areas dark and then introduce with theatrical lighting coldwar museum wanted people scared, should we also? Nike layout, Computers in generator room. Move power entrance to Generator room. How did vaccum tubes work? Electricity explaination in generator room? Green theme = vacuum tube compared to incandesent light bulb and how many vacuum tubes did it take to run a computer then? Use wood sub flooor to run extensive computer cabling? TROPO and Doomsday layout, SOSUS layout, Russian sub display SAGE layout, AUTOVON vs non interconnected systems from WWII Teletype to Internet Network / promote other Cold War related museums?
SOUTH END = WWII Casemented 12" Battery
South Gun Room 52' X 31'	South Motor Generator Room 17' X 22'	South Store Room 11.5' X 22'	South Shell Room 42' X 22'	South Powder Room 66' X 22'	Latrines	Entrance 14' X 12'
Make displays mobile in south end so we can remove them during events. Picture of 12" being loaded to put next to 12" History of Grand fleet during WWI because of where 12" came from. USS Wisconson's History. post WWI naval treaty limits. sinusoidal cycle of build up and cutbacks. reduction of equipment from WWI meant there was a lag in building back things such as Miles. Picture from Ft Story and phone box before restoration next to terminal box when reinstalled.	Make displays mobile in south end so we can remove them during events. Idea.........	Make displays mobile in south end so we can remove them during events. Idea.........	Make displays mobile in south end so we can remove them during events. Grapple hook vending machine compared to shell crane. Picture from 520 shell room for display in our shell room.	Make displays mobile in south end so we can remove them during events. Silk expalaination from tour.	Make displays mobile in south end so we can remove them during events. Gas actack exhibit in Latrines. Build model of latrines and plumbing inside.	Make displays mobile in south end so we can remove them during events. Weight/volume of concrete for 519? Mike Roger's plan for entrance? How to personalize/engage in the museum experience? How will the access change with growth? Always guided tours or will it eventually be self guided to some point?
ORIENTATION BUILDING
Orientation Building ??' X ??'
We need a gift shop.... Fortress America Book Fort Miles Images of America Book Cafe Press items DE Parks items What does Nature Center have? KIDS STUFF!!? Civil Defense humor items?? CD duck and cover mascot stuffed toys? Oozlefince stuffed toys Repop artillery toys? Maps of Miles/ relief maps Pamphlets??? My stuff from the NSA museum as a guide.. Everything possible to tie Fort Miles to big picture from present back to Rev war? Forts up the Delaware Never fought a battle so what is the relevence? American Defense End of surface based ship/shore defense era Then and now pics for significant parts of Ft Miles . WWII and present. Big map for index of all photos. I.E. where was U-858 surrender, where was jail cell for crew? railway artillery, why? R&R description.

created: 08-05-2009
Updated: 08-25-2009
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