Week Three.

I have now met the majority of the team and the volunteer staff at the museum. There are some brilliant people here. It has brought back memories of my time spent working in visitor services for Wolverhampton Art gallery whilst I was at University and makes me so very glad to be back in this environment. I have only met two of the curators though, which is fairly disappointing. They occasionally come into the museum and work from the office there, but mainly they are based at the Somerset Heritage Centre.  I have been booked onto a tour of the Heritage Centre for the 13th September. This is the base for the Somerset Archves and Local Studies centre, and also houses the majority of the museum collection.  Not wanting to wish the days away... but I really wish it were sooner. 

I have got to grips with the routine now, and have come to understand the opening and closing of the museum. Still in awe of having keys to the castle and opening the museum on my own in the mornings at least once a week. 

Growing up in Somerset, I don't recall ever coming to the Taunton Museum as it used to be known.  Once upon a time it was all dark and musty and had lots of taxidermy and tiny cases packed full of collections. My idea of the perfect museum. Or these days probably the anti-museum.

These photographs are not my own work, but are by other members of the SWHT team. The early ones are reproductions of picture postcards from the early 1900's.