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Phillip & Patricia Frost Museum of Science - Angeline Alvarez, week 2

 

Monday 7/15/2024

Today was my first day with the Exhibitions team. I started by meeting Cory, who I'll be shadowing today and tomorrow. He is in charge of coming up with ideas for the exhibitions, as well as designing the structure and contacting the vendors. After introducing ourselves to each other, he explained to me in detail what he does in a regular basis. One of those things is meeting up with potential vendors for pieces that might be needed in an exhibit. I accompanied him to a meeting with the workshop and a wall vendor named MPA. The Frost Museum bought a couples of walls some years ago. However, the crew in the workshop struggled with assembling detachable units. The MPA representative, Josh, demonstrated how they are supposed to be set up and how to take them apart. Me and the workshop crew found them very convenient, because of the low labor needed and the small area that is needed to store them. 

Assembling walls with the workshop crew!

Tuesday 7/16/2024

Today's day was full of surprises. After I arrive at the museum, I met with Cory, and he told me we were going to be working in reviewing some videos for the incoming exhibit. We spend approximately 2 hours reviewing the video quality, subtitles, lighting and font type in 8 videos. When we finished reviewing the videos I help Cory with another of his projects, in which I transformed into a video editor! I was very nervous because it was my first editing a video, but Cory patiently taught me how to edit audio, synchronize it precisely, and even add music.  I found it very interesting and might explore it further for fun in the future!


Designing an exhibit with Cory (one of the many projects I helped in)

Wednesday 7/17/2024

My day was divided into two sections. In the morning, I met with the workshop crew, they are the responsible of setting up the exhibits and making sure that everything in the current exhibits is working correctly. I helped them paint the back of a photobooth that was going to be use in an event that museum was going to have in two days. After that I walked with them throughout the museum to check the exhibits.

When I finish my lunch, I met with Helen, who is the director of the exhibits, with her I discussed and helped her come up with ideas for her master plan. This master plan is something that the museum has been thinking of during a long time to improve in a lot of areas, so being part of the thinking process was an amazing experience.
I painted that with Micah!

Thursday 7/18/2024

Evelyn and I attended our Storytime session.

After that we got ice-cream with Chloe and Vanessa.

The ice-cream was delicious!


Friday 7/19/2024

In my last day I helped the collections department. Kristen, who is the collections assistant explained to me what her job is and also some challenges that have stopped her momentarily, like a very small storage room for collections. Around noon, we inspected artifacts throughout the museum, focusing particularly on dinosaur fossils in 'The Dig' exhibit. Kristen emphasized the importance of monitoring conditions like temperature and humidity to prevent issues like Pyrite Disease, which can deteriorate fossils. At the end of the day, she showed me the collections room. 

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