Internship Project

I have two projects. I went into detail for the first one and now I've got the details for the second one.

Internship Project
Maritime Museum of San Diego

Goal: To develop a simple webpage that will highlight the museum's recent acquisitions.

Method: Work in conjunction with the collections manager to:

1. Research the use of this type of web page by other museums

• How do museums - particularly maritime museums highlight their important collections?
• How do the websites of these museums help to attract patrons to the museums through highlighting their collections?

2. Research the background to the object/s to be presented

• What is the place of this object within the overall mission of the museum?
• What is the story behind this object - it's importance for maritime history?
• What are the specifications of the object: it's size, composition, state of preservation?
• Who made it? What can you find out about the maker/artist?

3. Write a series of short paragraphs on the object and it's history.

4. Photograph the object.

5. Compose the webpage in cooperation with museum staff.

6. Apart from helping to design a simple webpage, think of three things that you learnt while doing this project.