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How long did it take to put the exhibit together?
It took us five years. We wanted to tell stories that hadn't been told
before. And to do that, we had to match those stories to real objects from the
Gold Rush. So we spent a lot of time searching. We went out to old mining sites
all over California, in four wheel drives, by horse, on foot, and on mules. We
worked with archaeologists who dug beneath the ground in the gold mining
country and in San Francisco. We looked for objects in museum collections,
private collections, libraries, and archives.
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