Before starting my internship, I had experience working with museums\/galleries since I do work-study with the Hand Art Center as a gallery assistant, so working with museums is nothing completely new for me. However, the Museum of Arts and Sciences offers more, and for this first week I began preparing to take on the duties of an intern for the Education department. Next week, I will begin giving tours to guests, so I had to start learning about the exhibits, particularly the Root exhibit and the Ground Sloth exhibit. Besides reading and memorizing information, I shadowed several tours that my supervisor gave. Most of the guests consist of children, thus it’s important to deliver information in a way that is engaging and easy for them understand. This often involves asking fun little questions like, which U.S. president are teddy bears named after?<\/p>\n
The Root gallery mainly consists of Coca-Cola related items that the Root family had collected, then later donated to the museum. The Root family had owned a glass company and entered a Coca-Cola contest to design the bottle. Obviously their design won, having a resemblance to “the hobble-skirt”, which was part of women’s fashion at the time, and the design had also looked like a cocoa bean. The design of the bottle has been slimmed down, but otherwise it’s still a fair trademark for Coca-Cola. The hobble-skirt bottle is one of many coke bottles on display. The family also donated two race cars and train cars, even Mrs. Root’s collection of over 800 teddy bears.<\/p>\n
The Ground Sloth is an interesting exhibit since the bones on display were found three miles away from the museum, and the animal had an impressive size of being at least ten feet tall. This particular species was the largest of its kind. Despite its size, it was a slow-moving herbivore.<\/p>\n
As of now I’m still studying the exhibits, but as I mentioned earlier, next week I will begin giving tours on my own as well as assisting teachers during the summer camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Before starting my internship, I had experience working with museums\/galleries since I do work-study with the Hand Art Center as a gallery assistant, so working with museums is nothing completely new for me. However, the Museum of Arts and Sciences offers more, and for this first week I began preparing to take on the duties … Continue reading Week 1 MOAS Internship<\/span>