The Bunce Island exhibit is now available for venues in
the United States and Great Britain during the 2007 bicentennial of
Parliament's prohibition of the Atlantic slave trade and the 2008
bicentennial of the prohibition of the Atlantic slave trade by the U.S.
Government. Plans are also underway for a copy of the exhibit to go
to the Sierra Leone National Museum in Freetown, the nation's capital
city, for permanent display. A community group in Freetown is now raising
funds to build a new wing for the National Museum just to receive the
exhibit.
The Bunce Island exhibit will be offered to universities,
museums, libraries, and other educational institutions in the U.S. and
U.K. on the following basis:
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Participating institutions will pay $500.00
to license the exhibit design.
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The participating institution will also
receive the 8-minute video that accompanies the exhibit
at no extra charge.
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The licensing fee will be used by the Bunce
Island Project of the Friends of Sierra Leone for its non-profit
efforts to study and preserve Bunce Island.
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The participating institution will build
the exhibit using printed display panels provided by the
Bunce Island Project. The institution will build wooden
frames to hold the panels using a design provided by the
Project. The total cost of the panels and the frames comes
to about $2250 in addition to the license fee.
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The institution owns the exhibit and can
use it as long as it likes, but it is asked to sign an agreement
to limit its showing of the exhibit to a specified area,
such as a city, state, or region.
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The participating institution can tour the
exhibit free to the public in the agreed-up area, but if
it charges entrance fees or fees to another institution
for showing the exhibit, it is asked to give 50% of the
proceeds to the Bunce Island Project.
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The participating institution is asked to
place a donation box at every showing of the exhibit and
to give 50% of donations to the Bunce Island Project.
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The participating institution can order
printed catalogs for the exhibit. It is asked to pay the
printing expenses and to give 50% of profits from the sale
of the catalogs to the Bunce Island Project.
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The participating institution will receive
a CD containing the design for a Bunce Island brochure.
It is asked to distribute the brochure free-of-charge.
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Finally, the participating institution's
name and logo will be listed on the "Acknowledgments"
panel as one of the sponsors of the Bunce Island exhibit.
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