The past week or so has been a very excited one for myself at the Salem Museum. I am happy to say that my supervisor Alex has given me the opportunity to create an exhibit for the museum. Because of the recent 100 year anniversary of the United States’s entrance into WWI, the staff at the museum wanted to create an exhibit to honor those that served our country during that time. The day that I walked into the museum Alex told me of my opportunity, I immediately went to PastPerfect and the archives to start my work.
For this exhibit I tried to keep a theme of “the things they carried”. Some of the pieces that are included in my exhibit are a gas mask, toiletries kit, a helmet, and an overcoat from an infantry division. However possible my favorite piece from the exhibit is a smaller American flag about the size of sheet of paper. This flag’s story is that it was retrieved from a German soldier’s body after battle, although it is tattered it still upholds so much character. This exhibit has been possibly my favorite part yet of interning at the museum because I essentially get to piece together all of the skills I have learned into an exhibit. I cannot reiterate how thankful that I am for the opportunity.
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