Our museum is run by the local city council, as an important cultural department to collect, preserve and exhibit works related history and heritage of this regional area. Basically, all collect materials will be used in permanent and temporary exhibitions. The museum also provides lots of activities for the local community and residents, such as interesting education and public programs and some special events. During the last two weeks, we organised and launched education programs for primary and secondary schools. This week my job was learning how to collect objects. Currently, the museum staffs are preparing a new exhibition for visitors. This exhibition explores the different experiences of men, women and children who lived in this regional area between 1930s and 1940s. Therefore, we have to collect different objects and photographs. All of them should present the stories and history of local communities. Although we can find some books and photographs in national library and local library, we also need more artefacts to show people’s everyday life, for example, dress, home ware and so on. Because the exhibition will be focused around four main themes, so objects could relate to any of the themes.

Last week was a very busy week. First of all, we wrote an exhibition report. This report outlined the main purpose and content of the new exhibition. At the same time, it also listed some available items for the exhibition. After that, we designed poster “call for objects and photographs for the new exhibition”. These posters will be shown at different places, including museums & galleries, libraries, community centre, schools and shopping centre etc. Finally, we made donation form and receipt form for the new exhibition. Besides these, we still sorted many previous donation forms. Last Friday, I also worked with volunteers to pack down the Indian culture exhibition.

P.S. A new exhibition will be displayed at the main gallery next week. Hope I can find something interesting.