I’ve been a bit quiet recently, and you can find out why by reading about what I’ve been up to at work at the Science Museum.
This week over in the Information Age team we passed an exciting marker. Instead of counting the time to the gallery opening in years, for the first time we’ve slipped into counting in weeks and months. It seemed like a good opportunity to reflect on what we’ve done so far, and some of the interesting things we still have to look forward to.
Where we’ve come from
The early days of the project were all about research. We spent time rummaging in the museum stores for great objects we could include, visiting other museums, immersing ourselves in archives and doing interviews with knowledgeable folks about communication and information technology.
Where we found gaps in our collection we came up with plans to fill the gaps, growing our collections and expertise as we went. One of those gaps was a decided lack of mobile phone technologies from developing countries – a massive oversight if you’re trying to tell a story about the impact of mobiles in the world today. Our solution was to embark on an ambitious collecting project in Cameroon, which I’ve written about here.
We also set about improving our knowledge of the collections already in the museum, and spent long hours looking at objects and reading through the files we keep on them.
We made some exciting finds rummaging through the museum’s archives (Source: Charlotte Connelly / Science Museum)
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