This summer I had the opportunity to intern at the Sherman Museum alongside Stuart Holcomb, the director of the Museum, his assistant Jacob Lee, and Nate, the previous year’s intern. This experience is something I will cherish forever. They were very welcoming to me and made sure I took away a lot of experience in the realm of Museums, more specifically, small town Museums. The pace at a local museum can be slower than museums in cities; however, there was more time for me to be hands-on with the artifacts, the planning and execution of Dino Days, and what I am most excited to talk about in my presentation, the newest exhibition, “Consumer Products through the Decades”.
The exhibition was a long process where I sketched out the layout of the envisioned floor plan so that Stuart would be able to present it to the Board of The Sherman Museum, and get the exhibition idea approved. I was able to be very hands-on with the picking process of artifacts, more specifically the film cameras used. I have always loved old film cameras after my film course with Brianna Burnette last fall so I of course had to jump on the opportunity to be involved in any way possible with these cameras. I spent time researching the cameras we had at the museum along with finding other ones that were somewhere within the 50,000 artifacts over in the church.
This internship has been a great opportunity for me to get an idea of what I would like my future career to be within the field of Anthropology and History.