preparation for your museum exhibit part one: project planning stages & gathering artefacts
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Preparation for your Museum Exhibit Part One: Project planning stages & gathering artefacts. Oral History Project Social Studies 10. Workshop Objectives . Workshop #1(December) To review the project timeline to identify timelines and stages for effective project planning - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Preparation for your Museum ExhibitPart One: Project planning stages & gathering artefacts
Oral History ProjectSocial Studies 10
Workshop Objectives Workshop #1(December)• To review the project timeline to identify timelines and stages for
effective project planning • To understand the importance of advance planning for your museum
exhibition• To gather ideas of what artefacts you could start looking for • To understand what makes for an effective museum display
Workshop #2 (January)• To evaluate the strength of the artefacts you have, and identify what you
still need to collect/make/find • To understand how to effectively display your research/ideas/artefacts • To consider how you will engage visitors to your museum booth,
through key questions, interactive components, artefacts and multimedia
Your timeline….• January 30/31 will arrive much sooner than you think….
Project Planning: timeline & steps to prepare for• Preparation for your museum display starts
during the research stage in December • Ideas for an engaging, interesting, interactive
display take time, so start brainstorming ideas on how to present a concept as you research.
• Borrowing artefacts from family takes time: you need to explore what is available and find the objects
• Collect as much as you can, even if at the time, it doesn’t connect to your project idea
• Start collecting craft material (spare cardboard, string, containers, styrofoam, wood etc.)
• Start looking at how things are displayed: in stores, galleries, museums
• Think about what draws you to a museum booth or presentation
Engage the audience…What do you look for in a good museum display?
Evaluating Projects TaskWith a partner, study the images of past projects. Considering your own experiences of presentations and exhibits, what we have discussed today and the top ten tips just given, decide:
1. What are the strengths of the project?2. What are possible areas of improvement?3. How could it be done differently?
Next steps • What ideas do you currently have for a display?
• What artefacts do you know you have access to?
• What would you like to find?
• How are you going to start this process?