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Once your pupils are familiar with the collection consider setting up a museum and invite parents and other classes to visit. Ideas to consider: The Collection What will go on display? How will artefacts be organised? Audience Who will be the audience? How will this influence the way the collection is set out? Labels What information should be included? How will it be presented? Consider paper and font colour, style and size. What are the most important things the audience should know? Do you want to explain what things were used for or do you want your visitors to think about it themselves? Leaflets and signs How will the Museum be promoted? Consider leaflets, posters, advertisements on school notice-boards and website, fliers for parents. Images on the accompanying CD be helpful here. Does it need a logo? Will there be a shop or café? A trunk is for travelling and as the collection travels around our region we hope that you will add to it in the following ways by creating a destination label for your school and applying it to the outside of the trunk by photographing the trunk and its contents on display in your school by encouraging your pupils to write and illustrate stories about the artefacts and their owners. Add these to the log book for everyone to enjoy. At the end of the year the University to host an exhibition based on the travels of the trunk which will include examples of the above. It is also our eventual aim to use the best of the stories about the artefacts as a basis for a children’s book. Finally, we would ask that you complete the accompanying evaluation form and return it to: Clare Pickersgill The University Museum Dept. of Archaeology University of Nottingham University Park Nottingham NG7 2RD
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