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? 
Freestanding brick chimney
The Kinglake Chimney installation commemorating the 2009 "Black Saturday" Victorian Bushfire tragedy in the Forest Gallery at Melbourne Museum

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. 


 

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