Good evening everyone. The VCF Steering Committee is pleased to inform you of some exciting updates involving our warehouse and museum! The warehouse is going to be moving to a different section of the building it is currently in, providing us with about 600 additional square feet over the space we have now. More importantly, this section has a better roof on it (no leaks!) a paved ramp to the entrance and access to a loading dock (albeit one that needs some love and attention) We will be moving into this new space in short order and will then begin the process of finishing and climate controlling the space. This is good news for all the VCF artifacts! Now for even more exciting news! As many of you know, our current museum occupies just under 1/4 of a section of the 9010 Building at InfoAge (specifically just under 1/4 of section 9010A.) Each full section is about 6800 square feet. VCF will be moving into section 9010B. All of 9010B. When all is said and done we will have over 6300 square feet of museum space or just over 4 times what we currently have! Additionally, 9010B accesses the main hallway that connect all the ‘H’ buildings together (referred to as “Broadway” by InfoAge) which means several things for us. People will be able to access our new museum once completed by simply crossing the street from the main building. This will eliminate them having to walk down the street and around the corner. People will also be able to enter our museum from both ends, so whether they are by the Model Railroad and Wireless Operators section, (Where our current museum is) or coming from the Military Technology Museum or the Electronic Warfare section they can access our museum. We are very excited about these changes and will be reaching out to all our members looking for volunteers to help clear and prep the spaces and make them ready for our artifacts and/or the general public, as well as raising the funds to make all of these things happen!! Stay tuned for more updates as the time approaches for us to start clearing 9036C (the location of our new warehouse) in preparation for the big move as well as working on 9010B for our new museum. We will need your help and support as we transition to our new locations! Tony Bogan On behalf of the VCF Steering Committee
I would be happy to volunteer! I am fostering a puppy right now so it couldn’t be for too many hours in a row, but so can definitely pitch in! Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Saturday, August 7, 2021, 5:24 PM, Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote: Good evening everyone. The VCF Steering Committee is pleased to inform you of some exciting updates involving our warehouse and museum! The warehouse is going to be moving to a different section of the building it is currently in, providing us with about 600 additional square feet over the space we have now. More importantly, this section has a better roof on it (no leaks!) a paved ramp to the entrance and access to a loading dock (albeit one that needs some love and attention) We will be moving into this new space in short order and will then begin the process of finishing and climate controlling the space. This is good news for all the VCF artifacts! Now for even more exciting news! As many of you know, our current museum occupies just under 1/4 of a section of the 9010 Building at InfoAge (specifically just under 1/4 of section 9010A.) Each full section is about 6800 square feet. VCF will be moving into section 9010B. All of 9010B. When all is said and done we will have over 6300 square feet of museum space or just over 4 times what we currently have! Additionally, 9010B accesses the main hallway that connect all the ‘H’ buildings together (referred to as “Broadway” by InfoAge) which means several things for us. People will be able to access our new museum once completed by simply crossing the street from the main building. This will eliminate them having to walk down the street and around the corner. People will also be able to enter our museum from both ends, so whether they are by the Model Railroad and Wireless Operators section, (Where our current museum is) or coming from the Military Technology Museum or the Electronic Warfare section they can access our museum. We are very excited about these changes and will be reaching out to all our members looking for volunteers to help clear and prep the spaces and make them ready for our artifacts and/or the general public, as well as raising the funds to make all of these things happen!! Stay tuned for more updates as the time approaches for us to start clearing 9036C (the location of our new warehouse) in preparation for the big move as well as working on 9010B for our new museum. We will need your help and support as we transition to our new locations! Tony Bogan On behalf of the VCF Steering Committee
Wow- How exciting! Quite a change from when we talked in the spring down here in south jersey. On 8/7/2021 5:24 PM, Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Good evening everyone. The VCF Steering Committee is pleased to inform you of some exciting updates involving our warehouse and museum!
The warehouse is going to be moving to a different section of the building it is currently in, providing us with about 600 additional square feet over the space we have now.
More importantly, this section has a better roof on it (no leaks!) a paved ramp to the entrance and access to a loading dock (albeit one that needs some love and attention) We will be moving into this new space in short order and will then begin the process of finishing and climate controlling the space. This is good news for all the VCF artifacts!
Now for even more exciting news!
As many of you know, our current museum occupies just under 1/4 of a section of the 9010 Building at InfoAge (specifically just under 1/4 of section 9010A.) Each full section is about 6800 square feet. VCF will be moving into section 9010B. All of 9010B. When all is said and done we will have over 6300 square feet of museum space or just over 4 times what we currently have!
Additionally, 9010B accesses the main hallway that connect all the ‘H’ buildings together (referred to as “Broadway” by InfoAge) which means several things for us.
People will be able to access our new museum once completed by simply crossing the street from the main building. This will eliminate them having to walk down the street and around the corner. People will also be able to enter our museum from both ends, so whether they are by the Model Railroad and Wireless Operators section, (Where our current museum is) or coming from the Military Technology Museum or the Electronic Warfare section they can access our museum.
We are very excited about these changes and will be reaching out to all our members looking for volunteers to help clear and prep the spaces and make them ready for our artifacts and/or the general public, as well as raising the funds to make all of these things happen!!
Stay tuned for more updates as the time approaches for us to start clearing 9036C (the location of our new warehouse) in preparation for the big move as well as working on 9010B for our new museum. We will need your help and support as we transition to our new locations!
Tony Bogan On behalf of the VCF Steering Committee
Wow- How exciting! Quite a change from when we talked in the spring down here in south jersey.
Yep! Been a lot going on behind the scenes. Can’t say enough about everyone at InfoAge and how great they’ve been to work with. Everyone’s pretty excited as whole sections are starting to open up that have been nothing but storage for years. The next couple of years is going to see a lot of work going on, much of it ours!! Will be awesome to have a full section of over 6000 square feet at our disposal for the museum. Will be a lot of work, but more than worth it when all is said and done. We are working with the folks from the CDL and Dan and Rick from MTMNJ and will be starting on finishing the Broadway entrance. This will not only open the main access for our future museum space but also gives InfoAge a shot in the arm by opening it to the new Electronic Warfare room across from our future museum space. Between the three groups mentioned and InfoAge you’ll have Broadway open, once we are all done with our sections, straight through from second street (the road you walk/drive down to get to our existing museum) to the Military Technology Museum (military vehicles) That’s still a little ways off, but it’s step one and it’s starting soon. We are firing the starting gun ourselves. All this takes time, money and lots of volunteers, but with multiple groups working together with InfoAge things are getting done! Our future is now ours to build. Great what can get accomplished when you have a good working relationship with those around you, and we have some great partners here at InfoAge with staff, the Board of Trustees and the other member groups. Tony
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