A week in the life….
Friday, February 12th, 2010I thought today I’d give a glimpse into the week of a Museums Education Officer. It’s been a rather varied week!
Monday
Spend the day at King’s Meadow Primary School in Haddington where I delivered 3 sessions to their P6 classes on the Victorians. We did a Victorian washday, using tin bath and washboard, which was very fun but also very wet! Came back to 
the office afterwards and went through emails.
Met artist Tom Ewing at Prestongrange to discuss his artwork for the new ’shopping’ interactive at Prestongrange. Children will be able to visit a Victorian Prestonpans High Street and explore things like an ear syringe and a meat grinder! I stopped by Musselburgh Burgh and picked up the Old Toys Loan Box the P1 classes had borrowed. Teacher said it had been very useful and they would request it again next year. Then I rushed over to Dunbar for a meeting with all the museums team.
Wednesday
After a flexi morning off, I spent the afternoon going through applications for our Seasonal Museum Assistant posts - we mark them all along the essential and desirable personal specifications. It’s hard! Treated myself to a wheat-free chocolate biscuit and toffee shortbread biscuit half way through! One of our lovely volunteers, Hazel, had brought in the shortbread for Katherine and I due to our wheat allergies.
Thursday
Attended Excel training with the Council - have lots of ideas about how to improve the various databases I manage now! I keep one on all the events I’ve organised including visitor figures, cost, time, date, etc and now I’ll be able to do lots of calculations and very clever things.
Friday
Meetings for today were cancelled, so have all day to get organised for the weekend. For our Storytelling event on Saturday for LGBT History Month, I need to buy some tacky Valentine’s decorations and print off posters to direct people around the Brunton. For Sunday, I need to remember to take our various cameras with us and to finalise the guidelines for participants- it’s our photography day for Wikipedia at Prestongrange and John Muir’s Birthplace.
Saturday and Sunday
Events, events, events…
What’s happened to you this week? Hope you’ve had an eventful week too!
