Erin Sloan ’23
Week 8.5:
Final Week!
July 28, 2021 | Last Few Days of Working My final week was spent like most of the rest. My one day in person, I worked on helping to organize another filing cabinet of our collection items. The rest was spent cataloging a small collection of items from a fraternal organization. My favorite part of cataloging these items that […]
Week 8:
Organizing and Curiosity
July 23, 2021 | Organizing Much of my week in person at the museum was spent reorganizing the museum’s institutional archives. This has been a pretty fun project because it is the type of organizing that I really enjoy. It ended up satisfying to finally finish it and have the archives completely organized in its new filing cabinets. Part […]
Week 7:
Nearing the End
July 14, 2021 | Cataloging This week was slightly shortened from the holiday weekend, so I only was in person for one day. The other intern had finished her internship so working in the museum was quieter than normal. I spent my day cataloging objects that had been gifted to the museum. The process was pretty similar to cataloging […]
Week 6:
Giant Suction Cups and Organizing
July 8, 2021 | Flood Waters Most of the week in person was spent organizing the museum’s institutional archive. It has been a pretty messy system of the museum’s history since 1993. It was not too bad since I enjoy these types of organizational projects. It was definitely made more difficult that everything before 2008 had been damaged from […]
Week 5:
R&R (for archival items, that is)
July 8, 2021 | Investigating Details of Iowa’s Past This week was interesting as I got to see a new side of the curatorial process that I hadn’t learned about yet. My first day in person was organizing some archival filing cabinets for a bit, and then the rest of it was spent internet stalking people. It sounds ridiculous […]
Week 4:
Attack of the Shelving Unit (and some other museum business)
June 23, 2021 | Tying up Loose Ends This was a week of primarily finishing up and continuing work on old projects. I spent this week continuing to edit the History Adventure video and continuing research for the upcoming exhibit. It was nice to finally have a final product for the video that I and the other intern have […]
Week 3:
Research and Paper Chains
June 15, 2021 | New Skills Most of this week was spent working for the education department on a Summer History Adventure video meant for kids. This was definitely something new for me. For one, I do not have a ton of experience working with or teaching younger kids, so I was not so sure how to go about […]
Week 2:
A Difficult Week for the Better
June 8, 2021 | New and Old Projects This week I spent more time working on some new projects, and continued with what I had started last week. A new project I started with another intern was working on creating educational lessons for kids. I am definitely excited for this, as I am more interested in the educational side […]
Week 1:
New Experiences and Spider Friends
June 3, 2021 | In-Person at AAMI My first week started on Wednesday, so I got to slowly wade into this exciting new experience. In adapting to the pandemic, I am only going to the museum in person twice a week and spending the other three days working from home. My first day at the African American Museum of […]