The first day of my experience involved me doing usual work. Walking around and familiarising myself with the environment was the focal point of the entire placement, with it being punctuated by winding the grandfather clocks, a planetarium session and a budget calculation task. I ended the day with an online training task which outlined handling museum objects, museum pests and methods of packing museum objects.
The second day of my experience involved me preparing items digitally, such as creating a poster for William Edwards’ 300th birthday and preparing the blog post that I’m currently writing. I also measured the light levels within the museum to see if there was light that would damage the artefacts. Overall, it was a good day, and I even helped to prepare a painting for mounting.
The third day of my experience involved me doing more manual work, replacing brackets on paintings, and helping drill holes into walls for mounting. I also had time to set out an entire labelling catalogue and write an editor’s note, as well as learn about how to handle museum objects – it was a busy day, and probably the best one of the week.