Since my last post I have had three separate things I have spent time working on.
One of these was working with my supervisor in the researching of images and rejigging the designs for signs/placards within the Aviation Gallery. I learned that images need to be of a certain size so that when they are blown up for signs that they do not become fuzzy or otherwise compromised. Images also have to be within Public Domain or Creative Commons so the copyright is not infringed upon or causing delays in the creation of exhibits. She walked me through the procedure of using Word Publisher to create sign designs for the museum exhibits.
Above are pictures of some mock-up placards that my supervisor had done. She likes to take out these mock-ups out to the gallery and see how they look in place. This can bring to mind any aesthetic or functional changes that might need to be made.
In addition to this project, I’ve continued with accessioning various things within our collection that need to go into our PastPerfect program.
Seeing as today is Halloween, we had our Halloween event back on Saturday. The signs that I put up before my last post were for this event. We were encouraged to wear costumes as were our visitors. I came in and ran a children’s area featuring a craft’s table, temporary tattoos, and handling the free posters that were rewards for our scavenger hunt. It was a lot of fun for me. I came to the museum dressed as Velma Dinkley from Scooby-Doo and the kids thought that was pretty fun which is the picture on the right at the bottom. The left picture below is of the tattoo table with some kids playing with a pet snake of one of our volunteers who was dressed as Beetlejuice.
