This summer I am interning at The Salem Museum from June to August. My internship got off to a great start! It began on a big Saturday event celebrating the opening of a new exhibit. The exhibit commemorates the history of firefighting in Salem. We had over 250 people attend the event, which is an amazing number for a small museum.
After that I began my normal week schedule. Over my first two weeks I was doing a lot of various projects, just trying to learn the layout of the museum. I had volunteered at the museum in the past, but many things had changed since then and so I had to learn what was new. This was accomplished through a lot of small assignments. From rearranging exhibit artifacts to pulling things from the archives, I spent these first two weeks learning the finer details of the museum. I learned how to accession items and how to use the museum’s archival system, PastPerfect. During these two weeks I also began to research Andrew Lewis Football history for an upcoming permanent exhibit. It was a fast two weeks and they have caused me to be very excited for the remainder of the summer!