The other day I realized it had been quite a while since my last post so I thought it was time to sit down and talk a bit more. Lately this blog has drifted away from what I had originally been hoping to base it around which was an inside look into the work undertaken in collections management. The reason for this is that the museum has been pursuing several different community events that have taken up most, if not all, the museum staff's time over the last month or so. During this time we have put on several farmers markets along with our annual summer kids day called Panther Valley Day, which had to compete with many other community events this year. The farmers market and Panther Valley Day took a lot of planning and work to organize like ensuring we had all the right equipment for the children's activities. This work which ranged from getting tents donated to calling local bands to preform at our event took a great deal of time and really brought into perspective how much work goes into organizing and pulling off an event such as this. In the end all the work paid off and we had all the volunteers, goods, entertainment and activities we needed to create a successful event.
Thankfully now with  Panther Valley Day out of the way and the Farmers market becoming a weekly routine we can get back to business as usual at the museum. This means I'll be attempting to complete a grant application that gets the museum the funding to recreate their entire exhibit. In addition to this I will be able to continue working to update our collection's database while maintaining the museum's collection. In other words I will be able to get back to my regular posts about the interesting items I find while working in the back and share them with you. Also if the grant is a success I will hopefully be able to continue working at the museum over the fall and possibly winter helping to update our exhibits with the knowledge of what our collection could support.