Congratulations to our amazing Year Nine Museum Project students who presented their individual museum research projects across two hours yesterday evening to a range of parents, students, staff and museum professionals!
The projects this year included the importance of insects in museums and how they can tell us about the climate crisis, interactivity in museums, virtual museums, whether theme parks can be thought of as museums, whether digital or physical preservation is most effective, repairing and restoring paintings, the role museums can play in improving public perceptions of spiders, the creation and display of similar artefacts from different cultures, pop-up museums and museum locations, how museums display medicine through time, decolonising museum collections, the role museums can play in promoting languages, how plants can be displayed in museums, virtual reality in museums, comparing ethnographic museums, Samurai representation in museums, and the ethics of displaying human remains.
The students chose their projects several months ago, and have been researching, interviewing museum staff, and writing essays and creating artefacts to express their ideas. The presentation evening marked the culmination of their projects. Artefacts created included an "inro" and "pomander", both objects used for similar things from different cultures, and a painting and song to present spiders in a positive light. Students had also created videos to show interactive displays, brought insect snacks to eat, and tested methods of preservation!
Thank you to all who came to support!
