It's always a little exciting to begin carefully choosing the items for each museum display. What makes the cut and what doesn't? My museum collaborator/sister and I try to make each display tell a story; the challenge is picking specific items that will tell each year's story.
A theme is chosen and a guest speaker is invited to share their story with our young Elementary audience. Displays are then designed to help support the theme and guest speaker's address as well as educate those visiting the museum. It all culminates in an exciting experience shared by the entire school community. This year's theme is "Next stop Equality...A Freedom Rider's journey." Our guest speaker on February 9th will be Matthew Walker from Nashville, Tennessee. Mr. Walker participated in the sit-ins as well as the Freedom rides.
Yesterday we opened box after box of museum artifacts, posters and hands-on items. We carefully chose the ones that would work for this year's museum. The remainder were returned to their yearly resting place.
We talked about the things we'd come across in our research about the Freedom riders. We discussed what we were each working on. We repaired some items and stacked those items in boxes floor to ceiling ready to be transported for next week's museum set up. Eight hours later, we sat and stared, ready to once again begin telling the story, and sharing history in a new year.
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