I am building a model of my museum. The museum is broken into traveling exhibit galleries and permanent collection galleries. All of the galleries are either brand new or newly remodeled, and there are not multiple floors, it is just one floor of galleries. My thoughts were to just build them all in the model in several pieces. One of my curator was suggesting not including the permanent collection galleries due their static rotation.

My topic for discussion: Do you all feel that a model is useful enough to provide an over all feel of the museums total exhibition spaces regardless of whither or not it is the complete museum?

Also, My plan to use a combination of 3/16" and 1/2" foamcoar. I can't make it out of anything more stable like wood, due to the fact I don't have a wood shop(for now at least). I just want to know if there are any other materials that I haven't thought of.

Thanks
Todd