As part of our industrial revolution unit, we did an in class project where we became museum curators and created a museum exhibit based on what we had learned from documents about our assigned topic. A curator is a person who compiles information along with visuals to create a museum exhibit. My groups topic was about, the evolution of spinning, and was based an excerpt of ,Observation on the Loss of Woolen Spinning.
The first step of the curating process was to become familiar with our topic, and to do so we had to analyze the documents about our topic. We did some research on each of our documents, whether they were illustrations or pieces or writing to find out more about them. Another part of the analysis process was to find out specific citation information about each document, so we could properly cite each in our final exhibit. Analysis is important to the curating process because it helps you to obtain the information in which you would like the viewers of your exhibit to learn.
Our exhibit shows the various changes and stages of the loom from the hand loom all the way to the textile mills. The first source, of the woman spinning on a hand loom shows that spinning could be done in a home, and often is what most women did all day long. The second source, the Almond Loom is a more advanced and improved version of the original loom.The third stage of spinning, the mechanized loom was invented to spin more than one piece of thread, and increase productivity. And lastly, textile mills were the final product of spinning during the industrial revolution. In our exhibit, we also included a chart showing how these improvements in spinning technology contributed to the population boom in London. We came up with our title because it is based on Dory’s quote from the movie, Finding Nemo,“Just keep Swimming”, and because our poster is about spinning we substituted the word swimming for spinning, and included a picture of Dory so that viewers would understand the reference. After viewing our poster we wanted to people to know that because of the industrial revolution, spinning evolved, and because of that more jobs were available in factories, which overall was a big contributing factor to London’s population boom.
After being museum curators, we were museum visitors, and we viewed each of the other museum exhibits created by our classmates. These exhibits were very informational, and helped us to learn a lot more about the industrial revolution. From group B’s exhibit, I learned that the steam engine was used in locomotives to help increase transportation speeds, and to transport coal for trade. Their exhibit had a creative title, used lots of color, and had audio as part of the presentation. From group C’s exhibit, I learned that the industrialization caused pollution to the air and waterways, and that the air smelt and the river was an opaque brown. Their exhibit had a river with the different events along it to make it easy to follow, and included a lot of very good information. From group D’s exhibit, I learned all about the child labor during the industrial revolution, and how children worked in coal mines, and in factories, and they did strenuous work that stunted their growth. This exhibit did a really good job persuading the audience that working conditions during industrialization were not good at all for children. Group E’s exhibit talked about slavery. One interesting thing i learned was that the demand for slaves was now higher than the demand for cotton. overall, I learned a lot about the industrialization that I didn't know before by create my museum exhibit, and viewing the ones made by my classmates.
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