Museum Studies Fieldwork Seminar (Prof. Scott)
Faculty Advisor: Monique Scott
Field Site: Bryn Mawr College, Special Collections
Field Supervisor: Marianne Weldon
Fieldwork Description:
As part of my Praxis experience, I researched a set of thirteen Peruvian textiles housed in Bryn Mawr Special Collections. I completed various types of physical and archival research with these textiles, including some special photography which I discuss in more detail in my PowerPoint presentation. I then compiled my research and made it available via Bryn Mawr Special Collection’s online collections. This part of my project was especially interesting to me as I was able to see how the back end of an online cataloging system works. I became especially interested in digital cataloging and online accessibility in the process, and I plan to pursue further education in the field.
Final Presentation:
Praxis Field PresentationPlease click here to access a PDF version of the presentation.
Having taken the museum studies course on Peruvian textiles with you last semester, it was really fun getting to hear about your work this semester! The work you did to identify indigo was particularly interesting, but just in general it was nice to get to learn more from you about some of the topics we addressed last semester. There’s so much to learn about the textiles within our collection at Bryn Mawr and it was nice to find out more!
It’s really interesting to see how you researched these Peruvian textiles and really fun to read about! The work you did about uploading the information to the online collection is very important as we can now see. I am interested to know if you will continue with this research by adding more textiles or will you try to find different dyes in the same textiles.
Hey Mort,
Congrats on all your great work this semester!! It’s amazing that you got to work on a a few different aspects of collections so you could determine which parts you liked more than others–even though your in-person work was cut short I’m so glad that you were able to gain that insight.
CONGRATS again and great job!
Warmly,
Tessa