Sunday, August 14, 2016
End of Summer Cleaning
~Marcie Rodriguez
Today was spent cleaning and organizing our archives lab. To some this may seem like a doldrums task, but I found it very refreshing. It gave me a chance to reassess what supplies we have, particularly ones that are for education and administration. I found a bunch of old metal tray files, and I used them to built the other employees shelves (one each!) so they can each have a personal inbox for paperwork. It came together very nicely, each one got a historic photo, a newspaper article about the museum, and an oversized image to decorate it. It was a nice solution to what to do with these items. Instead of storing all of them, I was able to give them a purpose, and help get us more organized.
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These images are from two different temporary exhibits we did in 2013. They never were thrown away because as images they were transformative in our thinking about how we would present "the people," an idea that come up over and over in our community meetings. At the Turks and Caicos National Museum I implemented a program that everything got two uses before it could be thrown away. This included prints of temporary exhibit panels. We put them in the restroom, in the hallway, and sent them to classrooms in the local school.
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