3. How does the Museum build its collections?
Suitable for Year Levels 3–10
Building a collection
What do you learn from Liza about collecting objects?
- What was collected?
- How do these objects help to tell a story?
- Which objects do you find the most interesting? Choose at least two
- What makes them interesting to you?
How can one small object act as a symbol for a bigger story?
- Look at the chimney.
- How is it a symbol of bushfires?
- What does it represent?
- What other objects can you think of that act as a symbol for bigger events? (E.g. poppy for Anzac day.)
Start thinking about objects that will remind you of what it was like to be at home a lot in term 2, 2020 and now in term 3.
For example:
- What are/were you wearing?
- What are/were you doing?
- What are/were you watching?
- What are/was your family doing?
As you think of things that might help tell your story, add them to your planning list.