Monday, 17 January 2011

Curator's Cabinet

A new Curator's Cabinet has appeared on the second floor outside the Lecture Theatre. As it says on the header, it is designed to show off new additions to the collection (although we might cheat from time to time).

New items do not always go straight onto display and this will allow us to show them off on arrival, get press coverage and display our thanks to the donors. It may be a slightly eclectic display in future, therefore, but all the more fun as a result.

In this picture, Volunteer Jessica is mounting the first exhibition of artefacts recently collected from Margaret Dye in Norwich, all of which relate to Frank and his sailing. Jessica is presently working her way through the two trunks of slides we have received, trying to put them in some sort of order and work out what they show. It is a whole life story in pictures but sadly without a narrator.

Don't miss the great cartoon or the vinyl on the side of the case: a picture of our wonderful curator complete with white coat, glasses and cupid-bow red lips. Dead realistic.