My internship has finally ended. After four months, I’ve finally finished working at the Roanoke Valley Preservation Foundation. It has been a wild ride with mountains of work and the chaos of summer classes. I spent the last few days of my internship working on the Endangered sites list and did nothing for the Greenbooks […]
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the LAST week at the Salem Museum
One of the most important things when you design exhibitions is understanding the new visitors’ perspectives. For 6 weeks, I had looked around all the exhibitions whenever I have free time, and I could understand them deeply and see the mutual relationships among the exhibitions. However, it is hard to expect that new audiences could […]
Finishing Touches and the Scavenger Hunt to End All Scavenger Hunts
At this point in the internship the focus was set on getting all the finishing touches laid out and completed for the fire exhibit. Most of the pictures and signs were already up so what was left was mostly cleaning and last minute touches. All of the display cases were wiped down, the floor was […]
Nearly Done
My internship is finally about to end. I’ve spent the past month buried in paperwork. I haven’t been able to work on the Greenbooks project due to the amount of work needed for the Endangered Sites list. The RVPF basically wants me to turn decades of records into one Excel spreadsheet. They even told me […]
Ending on a High Note
The last two weeks of my internship were quite a whirlwind. As previously mentioned, two of the permanent exhibits were being completely redone over the last few weeks, which meant my final days were filled with lots of heaving lifting. Since my time was winding down, I wrapped up my final research on Andrew Lewis […]
The Forestry Department and the T Square
It was around this point in the internship that we really got a lot of progress achieved on the Feature Exhibit. The Forestry Department showed up in a major way, donating all sorts of things for the exhibit. We got so much Smokey the Bear memorabilia ranging from comic books, to board games, to action […]
Research, Scanning, Past Perfect and the Fire Department
As mentioned in the last post, I have more on Past Perfect, the archives, and research for the feature exhibit I worked on in the Salem Museum. Work began in earnest for me on the feature exhibit in which I learned a great deal about what goes into making an exhibit because you can’t just […]
What should be necessarily presented to the public?
It is impossible to convey every single story and fact that the exhibition designer knows into limited space. I knew this though, it was painful to diminish or delete what I knew and what I wanted to deliver to visitors. It is because, in my opinion, the exhibition should not be a kind of an […]
Scanning, and editing
I was asked to scan and edit some of the pictures from yearbooks that I had worked through before. Simple work, no need to use my brains, at all. Besides that, even though I was not fully charged in other exhibitions, I helped other interns work on preparing a new one. I could feel how […]
Always Something New to Learn
There is a lot happening at The Salem Museum right now. The other interns are face lifting two of the permanent exhibits and I am up to my elbows in research. I have been researching Andrew Lewis Track teams and working on new drafts of my older write-ups for the last couple of weeks, but […]