Internship

As an Art Registration Intern at Museum London, I was able to use the skills I learned at Fleming College in relation to historical artifacts and apply them to fine art objects. I worked closely with the Art Registrar on all aspects of collections management, including the cataloguing, inventory, and collections storage of the fine art...

NovaMuse Data Cleaning

In my Collections Management class, we had the privilege of working with the Association of Nova Scotia Museums on a data-cleaning project. NovaMuse is a collective access database that allows museums to make the objects in their collections accessible to the public. I was assigned ten records to clean from the Sydney & Louisburg Railway...

Affixing Accession Numbers

In my Collections Management course, I have learned to affix accession numbers to artifacts in a way that is reversible and does not cause damage. I have used pencil to apply numbers to archival material, used a barrier coat with ink for three-dimensional objects, and sewn labels onto textiles. Skills Acquired: Manual dexterity Attention to...

Artifact Documentation

In my Collections Management and Care of Collections courses, I have experienced the process of documenting artifacts. I have learned how to complete a catalogue worksheet and have entered it into the Peterborough Museum & Archives' database, Inmagic (see Morse code practice buzzer cataloguing sheet here). I have also learned how to condition report objects...