The Curator's Follies

I bet that most of you don't know what a curator does, you might have heard it before corny movie about mummy or you might have heard it from a museum tour guide. From that context you'd probably assume that the curator is like a director for a museum. Unfortunately, if you assumed that you'd be incorrect. The curator would be more like a care taker, than a director; the curator's job is to oversee the creation and the well-being of the artifacts and exhibits. This week we learned about "how to be curators". To co-exist with what we are learning about the revolution, we made exhibits describing the benefits and the misfortunes of the revolution.


Our group's (group D)  objectives was to create a exhibit that would inform the audience of child labor in the revolution. We were given six documents which we had to analyze and source. After that we started working on the project and implementing the document to it, this is when the sourcing comes in handy because it gives you a sense of what information relevant, and which should go out the window. We the created the images and captions for the "exhibit", by printing out the pictures and the captions for the pictures. After we finished making the captions and over coming a couple of "hindrances" we decided that the title "The Condemning of the Innocent: child labor in the revolution" I personally didn't like that title because it's in the future tense, which is illogical because we are talking about events in the past, not in the present. Aside from the title aggravating me grammatically, i thought the poster was pretty good. We had a center caption that explained what was the Industrial Revolution and how it effected the welfare of the children. Surrounding the center piece there are pictures and captions showing how the revolution had a negative effect on the children. connecting all of the pictures are mine carts, which I felt were a bit unproductive because they didn't seem the have a distinct path or seemed to be orderly either.

Group A's project was about the advancements in the textile industry. Their titles were a bit amusing and very punny. It said that the Industrial revolution had huge impacts on the textile industry. These improvements include invention the spinning jenny in 1764 that increased the rate of the creation of yarn, followed by the British hand loom which also significantly increased the productivity of the factories. Next we had group B's steam engine themed exhibit. Their exhibit consisted of how the steam engine functioned and how it  helped improve the trade industry. After that their was group Cs exhibit of the pollution of the revolution. This poster to how the revolution caused the environment suffered throughout the revolution. A nice touche to the project was the polluted river in the back ground which gradually got more dirty as the facts came by. The last exhibit that we visited was group E's "Spinning into slavery" poster. I actually liked this poster best even over ours because of how neat it is. It showed how the revolution created a rapid increase in the population of slaves as the revolution progressed and the invention of the cotton gin.