Handle With Care

Our finished display

Today we spent the day at Yorkshire Museum learning how to put together a mock exhibit. We were split into different groups from the groups we have been working in on the films so today I was working with Lizzie and Katrina worked with Astrid.

Close up of our axe head display

A Bronze-age spear head

Our group was given a selection of Bronze Age objects. We got to handle everything from axe heads to pots. It was rather terrifying handling such delicate objects (especially the pots!). But, after getting over our initial fear we were left in awe of the craftsmanship and age of all the objects.

A work in progress

With our exhibit we chose to focus on the development of technology in the Bronze Age using the axes and spear heads as examples. This is because the range of items we had represented the change that took place during this period; from flat heavy axes to more advanced 3-D spearheads. We thought this would be an interesting approach to take to show the fact that change took place during one period, instead of from Bronze age to Iron age, for example. To make it more relevant and understandable we used mobile phones as a comparison. In both cases technology has changed so much!

A close up of the pottery

Following on a similar theme from the axe and spear heads we used a computer and a tablet to illustrate the differences between the two pots. The larger pot we found to be less portable but had more storage (like a desktop computer) and the smaller pygmy cup to have less storage but more portability (like a tablet). See where we were going with this...

Lexi having fun

While coming up with the idea of a theme was fairly easy actually writing the labels was challenging. They had to provide some information while being engaging all in 40 words or less. While we found the depth of information we gained interesting, the general public may not have, so we chose to write only very short descriptions of the artefacts, with an informal feel.

Lizzie having fun

Needless to say, we had so much fun.