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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
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Preparation for your Museum ExhibitPart 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 • 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 Task With 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: • What are the strengths of the project? • What are possible areas of improvement? • 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?