Back to the Future: Implementing Best Practice in Collection Documentation at the RD Milns Antiquities Museum
Project title: | Back to the Future: Implementing Best Practice in Collection Documentation at the RD Milns Antiquities Museum |
Project duration, hours of engagement & delivery mode | 6 weeks – 21 hours/week |
Description: | This project involves students in the implementation of best practice collection research and documentation standards at the RD Milns Antiquities Museum. Students will assist the Museum Curator to review, update and extend information available about the Museum’s original acquisitions from the 1960s, in order to ensure that available information on the Museum’s collection is high quality, complete and accessible to students, researchers, and museum staff in appropriate formats. The project may involve the use of the Museum’s database system, research about individual artefacts (online and digitally), work with the Museum’s historical archive, artefact photography, oral history interview and provenance research. The successful Winter Scholar will have the opportunity to work with the Museum’s Director, Manager/Curator and Assistant Curator as part of the placement. This project is generously supported by a donor to the Antiquities Museum. |
Expected outcomes and deliverables: | At the completion of the project, participating students should have familiarity with:
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Suitable for: | Advanced Undergraduate or Honours student in the disciplines of Classics and Ancient History, Archaeology, Anthropology, or Art History. |
Primary Supervisor: | Brianna Sands Assistant Curator |
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