A Busy Week in Museum Education

This week during the Make and Take was much more successful than last week. With around seven participants, my volunteer, her friend, and I were kept busy. In addition to the Make and Take, we worked on tracing cuckoo clocks on foam for an outreach program taking place on August 1st. I had to go to the local craft store in order to get more foam sheets. I also worked on copying more slideshows to create jpegs images for the conversion of the slideshows to a more useful format. The staff was kind enough to have an intern "thank you lunch" for us. The food was delicacy.

We're converting our long-list of slide programs into more web--friendly formats.

In the Library, I continued to work on the Theodore Crom collection. I was able to get through Box 14 and 15. It was interesting to see all the people that Crom knew including James Gibbs. Sara showed me the oldest book in the library’s collection. The book was so interesting to see and touch. It is not every day someone gets to hold a book that is over 400 years old!

Sarah, Penn State University
Museum Intern