Two weeks in and I am in LOVE.
This Summer at the Museum of Somerset, they have a pop-up exhibition all about Pirates. It's a quick history of pirates, all ages, both fact and fiction, with artifacts, navigational instruments, costumes from films, and a brilliant trail around the permanent museum collection which comes as standard. The beauty of this exhibition is this... We have to climb the tower in the morning and night, to hang skull and crossbones bunting from the flagpole.
Headaches are subsiding and I have insoles in my brogues. I have grown to love having this shorter lunch break, I have found that I am eating less and saving money by not wandering around the shops trying to kill time.
I have had lots of ideas this week, for ways to improve the visitor experience at the museum, and for fundraising. I will continue to compile lists for fundraising ideas, and filter them through. I am currently reading Adrian George's The Curator's Handbook from Thames & Hudson (2015) and it is really interesting. One to dip in and out of for sure. It helps me to sense check my thoughts on exhibitions before I speak out loud. I'm so excited about this change in career, that I fear I get too vocal and bubbly. I need to reign it in slightly.
My #AskACurator question for this week is about ghosts. What ghost sightings have there been, and why on earth did we agree to have Most Haunted come and film here? I watched the episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms3q9d4Fzp8) from 2013 on YouTube and it is simple tv entertainment with very little truth involved. Amusing at best.
I have been researching Harold St George Gray and Castle House this week quite obsessively. It is going quite well, and I'm certainly not about to stop. I have fact checked the majority of the information sheet now and obtained copies of relevant documents to support it. There are a few holes and discrepancies which I will address soon. I fear I may have only just scratched the surface of what could end up being an incredibly large project!
All photographs in this post were taken by myself and are only to be reproduced if credited.
I have had lots of ideas this week, for ways to improve the visitor experience at the museum, and for fundraising. I will continue to compile lists for fundraising ideas, and filter them through. I am currently reading Adrian George's The Curator's Handbook from Thames & Hudson (2015) and it is really interesting. One to dip in and out of for sure. It helps me to sense check my thoughts on exhibitions before I speak out loud. I'm so excited about this change in career, that I fear I get too vocal and bubbly. I need to reign it in slightly. 
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