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An exhibit at Philadelphia's children's museum featuring things belonging to Daisy Williams, daughter of Sweet Briar College founder Indiana Fletcher Williams, is being modified to focus more on Daisy.

Sweet Briar Museum director Christian Carr heard the news recently from Stacey Swigart, curator of the Please Touch Museum. The museum is located at Memorial Hall, one of the venues for the Centennial Exposition, a world's fair that 8- or 9-year-old Daisy attended with her parents in 1876.

The original exhibit, which was unveiled in October 2008, featured items belonging to several of the millions of people who visited the Expo - inventor Thomas Edison, suffragist Susan B. Anthony, abolitionist Frederick Douglass and Daisy.

According to Carr, the new exhibit, which will open sometime in June, focuses exclusively on Daisy. The display was described by Swigart as a "diorama of sorts" showing Daisy as she packs her belongings to leave the Expo.

"It is going to be set to look as if Daisy is packing in her hotel room, getting ready to leave the fair," Swigart wrote in an e-mail to Carr. "Our visitors will be able to look through her window to see what she is doing. I am going to be using the objects as sort of an 'I Spy'-type engaging exhibit."

In planning the exhibit, Swigart and the Please Touch Museum staff envisioned a Victorian hotel room with souvenirs from the Centennial Expo. Some of the items are Daisy's, on loan from the Sweet Briar Museum, and others are from the permanent collection of Please Touch.

It will be "as if she's taking a lot of souvenirs home with her," Swigart said. "Featured in the window, I plan on having a visitor's guide to the Centennial from our collection with her calling card laid out on the table, and the Daisy Centennial bracelet which was a souvenir that she brought home with her."