2019 has been a busy year, with the Archway Project in full
swing, new displays in the Sun Lounge, lots of wonderful events, and a huge update to our Collections
Management database. Our amazing team of placements and volunteers helped to create over
3500 new records on the database, and 6400 were records altered or
updated!
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| Imogen explains animal bones in archaeology |
Imogen spent most of 2019 on a placement with the Collections team, all the way
from Australia! She helped us to care for the collection, catalogue archives, and
created a fantastic new display of medieval objects in Keynsham Civic Centre.
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| Bournemouth PhD student Owen running a handling table by the Great Bath during the summer |
We ran events on site throughout the summer, and out and about in Sydney Gardens, Batheaston and at both of
our offsite stores. These events help to bring the hugely varied collections out of storage. From Roman
death and burial to Victorian Spa equipment, we’re got it all!
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| Some of our wonderful volunteers investigating displays at St Fagans |
To celebrate everyone’s hard work, we went on a brilliant trip
to St Fagans National Museum of History in the summer to explore their open-air
museum and see amazing archaeological finds.
Most of the time, however, you could find us in the office
or in our stores, sorting boxes and cataloguing objects. Our work is never finished!
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| Typical scenes in store - sorting Staffordshire slipware sherds |
In the Collections office we do tend to welcome Christmas
and the new year with open arms as the holiday gives us some time to catch up on all
the little things, so stay tuned and look out for our blog posts as we dust our
way into 2020…
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| Dusting a model of the Roman Temple...just one of our many chores for the winter! |
Collections Assistant
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