SUNFLOWERS!

If you have read any of my previous posts you will know the past 2 weeks I have been doing some voluntary work at World Museum Liverpool. I have absolutely loved it and I'm really sad to have left now. Whilst there I got to help with the general running of the exhibition and help out the staff. I was based within the Plantastic! Exhibition. It is a very interactive, hands on exhibition running until September. Anyone visiting Liverpool with children should definitely go.

I got to meet some lovely people and get involved with a lot. Working on the craft table was fun, especially when one little boy sat with us for over an hour and must have named every fruit and veg in the world, to fill our basket.

Above is the fruit basket we made, this filled up very very quickly.

The thing I worked on the most throughout my time there was the Sunflower wall. It was originally supposed to be used for a sunflower contest, allowing visitors to bring in their own photos of sunflowers they have grown and see who grew the biggest. Once we started work on the wall, it became a lot bigger than we intended and the museum have now decided to use another wall for the contest and use our wall as a fact wall. I have been calling a mural, however one of the other staff members told me...

"It is more than a mural, its an educational addition to the exhibit designed to provide additional information to support the sunflower interactive. It also encourages home planting through a flower growing contest and will be an important part of key stage school sessions."
Kenny, J, 2010.

The wall took longer than we originally intended, my last day was supposed to be on the Tuesday, but I was allowed to stay until Saturday to help finish it. It is still being worked on at the moment but I am hoping to receive some updated pictures.

Sunflowers

Not Major Personal Project related, but I am volunteering at the World Museum Liverpool at the moment and I am working on a Sunflower Mural with some other members of staff. I'm hoping if I'm ever on 'Who wants to be a millionaire' my million pound question is sunflower related, as thanks to one of the people I have met there, I am becoming a little bit of an expert!
I will do a better post when I have finished volunteering there.

Liverpool Museum

Today I got offered a voluntary placement at Liverpool Museum. I am so happy, this is the first step I need to get into the Museum industry. It will be nice to go back to Liverpool for Easter too and I can't wait to get involved now. Im waiting to hear back with more information about what I will be doing, however the placement description sounds good;


"We are looking for a team of volunteers to help us in the running of our Wild Wild World and Plantastic exhibitions and events at the World Museum. The events will run throughout the Easter Holidays from the 27^th March onwards and we would like volunteers for various roles such as assisting with learning activities, talking to visitors on gallery and assisting staff members with activities and events. If you are confident, friendly, interested in biodiversity and would like to work with visitors then why not apply?"

So with that, gaining the plans for both of my desired locations and a good tutorial with Paul, I have had a succesful week.

Back to work now.