This week, I selected artifacts to possibly display with the photographs and text boxes for the timeline exhibit.
To find objects, I went to the Museum's webpage: http://moa.wfu.edu/ and then to Research and Collections. I selected Artifact Database, chose the Browse option and clicked Show Browse Records.
The collection pieces in the database are listed by year. I tried to select one or two artifacts for each five year block. The earliest objects cataloged are from 1974.
I tried to pick artifacts that would both be visually interesting and relate to the exhibits we listed on our timeline. The latter of these two efforts was more difficult than I had originally thought it would be. The artifacts are dated, but the dates are of when they were acquired, and so do not necessarily correlate with when (and if) they would have been displayed.
Fortunately, when Kyle Bryner was brought on in 2005, she created a database where she has been logging what objects were displayed in conjunction with which exhibits.
By the end of Tuesday, both Demone and I had finished choosing artifacts from the MOA website, so Thursday we worked on combining our list. After we had created a joint object list using GoogleDocs, we went through the combined timeline we had created last week. We chose four main exhibits from more recent years and emailed our choices to Ms. Bryner so that she could search her database and send us a list of objects that were displayed for each of those exhibits.
Next week, we will continue narrowing down our choices of events, photographs and artifacts to start visualizing how we want the exhibit to look.
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