Finally, I finished the research report of “touch-table” programs by last Friday. That was really a big job. I spent nearly two weeks to do that, because I believed that a good research could help me organize the program more easily. I also had done lots of tasks this week. First of all, I submitted the hard copy of my research report to museum curator on Wednesday morning. At the same time, I still needed to give an oral presentation to her. The main aim of the presentation was introducing contents of research report and my research methods. Basically, we spent more than one hour to talk about this report. She agreed with my ideas about the “touch-table” programs and also gave me many useful suggestions about how to improve the report. For example, wrote more details to describe why set up this program for public, what was the benefit for both museum and visitors and use more quotes to support the report and so on. Through this meeting, we also talked about the next step about “touch-table”. I was really appreciated for her advices.

I went to powerhouse museum, maritime museum, and Sydney children’s museum on Thursday. The purpose of the trip was viewing their permanent exhibitions and collecting public program catalogues and educational resources. Before started to write my program planning, collected more information from other museums were essential. The “touch-table” programs belonged to a very special public and education program. It was for the permanent exhibition of this regional museum which I worked at. The permanent exhibition mainly exhibited local history and people’s life in the 19th century. The curator introduced me a lot of articles and documents which talked about local history. I have to read and understand them as soon as possible. The kids club of this Saturday was celebrating Easter Day. I prepared PowerPoint to talk WWI stories, colour in worksheets and drawing materials for children with museum volunteers. Hope children will love it. Happy Easter~~~