Benvenuto back guys. This is part three of five, in a series dedicated to the Salem Museum. If you recall from last week, I was in the middle of peer editing and making signs for the gallery. This week Alex and I have started on a long transformative process of the gallery into a new […]
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2nd Blog Post
The next few visits that I have had at the museum have been more or less the same. I am learning more about the program Pastperfect and have gone through 7 folios of pictures and documents. All of the pictures and documents range from graduating classes of the police academy, pictures of new buildings in […]
Staff Meetings & Learning New Things
Today I had a really cool experience where I had the pleasure of sitting in on one of the Virginia Museum of Transportation’s staff meetings. What was particularly cool about it was that it was not just any staff meeting- it was one where a representative from the exhibit design company “riggs ward” came in […]
To be or not to be…that is history pt. 2
Benvenuto back guys. This is part two of five, in a series dedicated to the Salem Museum. If you recall from last week, I was in the middle of peer editing for the remake of the Civil War gallery. Good news is that the peer editing is finished, all of the signs have been printed, […]
Adventures in the Artifacts
Hi everyone, this week I have been focusing a lot on the artifacts of World War 2. I have spent about a week and a half now working with the past perfect program and the artifact man on site in order to go through and catalog all of the items the memorial has received. These […]
On track for a great Internship!
My first few weeks here at the Virginia Museum of Transportation have largely consisted of training and getting my feet under me. To understand the inner-workings of a museum, one must be at a museum regularly, so my being present has shown me what happens behind the scenes, especially in the areas where collections are […]
To Be or Not To Be…That is History Pt. I
Hello guys, this is the first of a series of five blog post about life in the museum world. This picture seems boring and dull, you are completely correct. The last two weeks have been filled with grammar and writing. The Salem Museum is in the process of re-doing their Civil War room, and I […]
D-Day Scout Badges
I am currently interning at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford and as an intern, I am learning many different skills in various fields. My main focus right now is working on scout badges that will incorporate information from D-Day. My goal is to look at girl scout badges and their requirements and then based […]
Way Pastperfect
A few weeks ago, I started my history internship at the O Winston Link Museum in downtown Roanoke. I am working under the curator Ashely Webb. My first couple times going so far have been enjoyable and very interesting. Actually seeing how a museum works, and how much hard work actually goes into it, has […]
Final Blog Post
These last few weeks of the internship have been pretty awesome thanks to the fact that I have been able to work on creating and designing a little exhibit of my own. It is about the Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918-1919 and some of its worldwide as well as local impacts. The whole process has […]