Hello and Happy New Year to All Collectors!  Be sure to catch the
fabulous French Automata exhibit that opened in November 2011 and
is running through May of 2012, located within the International
Terminal building at San Francisco International Airport.

The six month long exhibit is strategically located immediately in
front of the BART transit system, open to all visitors (ticketed and
non-ticketed) and features 11 Automata from the Murtogh D. Guinness
Collection, graciously loaned from the Morris Museum,
http://www.morrismuseum.org/ 

Immediate exposure to about 1 million visitors over the exhibit
period is expected and in the 1st 2 months there have been 1700
visits to the SFO web site to read about and see the YouTube video
performances of several of those pieces on exhibit.  Plus, there's
a 12-foot tall "Pierrot Écrivain" writing automaton mural greeting
everybody inside the great hall.  Pass it along as a "must see"
if passing through or nearby the San Francisco Int'l. Airport.

http://www.flysfo.com/web/page/sfo_museum/exhibitions/international_terminal_exhibitions/north_20.html 

Recent travel blog about same:
http://stuckattheairport.com/2011/11/23/at-the-sfo-museum-self-moving-mechanical-creations/ 

And here is a link to a past NJN segment that overviewed the wide
range of the Guinness Collection:
http://www.njartsnews.org/2011/05/08/guinness-collection-of-mechanical-musical-instruments-2/ 

Be sure to visit the permanent exhibition of the Guinness Collection
here at the Morris Museum, should you ever be in the vicinity of New
York City.  And please feel free to contact me anytime for retail or
wholesale information regarding our newly released Guinness Exhibition
Catalog (hardbound).  Think local/Chapter fund-raiser!

Jeremie Ryder - Conservator of the Guinness Collection
Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey

P.S.: Please make time to see this Sunday's (Jan. 29th) CBS Sunday
Morning News program (9-10:30am EST, wtih Charles Osgood), as there
will be a special feature segment about the automaton depicted in the
recent film "Hugo" by Director Martin Scorsese, the Maillardet
automaton at the Franklin Institute, as well as the fabulous Guinness
Collection here at the Morris Museum!