Museomix – basically putting every skill possible in a mixing bowl and mashing it up. It\u2019s awesome!
\nWhat can I say? I walked into Enginuity, Coalbrookdale one Friday morning, not knowing what to expect. When I had volunteered myself for three days \u2018remixing Enginuity\u2019 I took a leap of faith. I love museums, art and everything in between. How hard can it be? <\/p>\n
Well\u2026the first challenge was met. We were allowed to propose what we want to see happen to a few areas of the Coalbrookdale section of the museum i.e. the \u2018Old Blast Furnace\u2019, \u2018Museum or Iron\u2019 and of course \u2018Enginuity\u2019. The first person, Rosie Clarke stood up and said something on stage and my heart started to pound, I got the sweats. I was going to stand up. I had an idea bursting to come out!
\nI\u2019m a scientist and of course I thought \u2018I\u2019m going to have to \u201cscience\u201d this and make it fun too!\u2019. So I said that we should show the Old Blast Furnace as it used to be. Make some loud bangs, some animations a children\u2019s\u2019 trail. What I want to do is pull people in. History and science should be interactive, immersive and thought-provoking.
\nThe second challenge was the \u2018dating\u2019 bit. This is where people grill you for more info on what your ideas are and you have to recruit people with the relevant skills to make it happen! It is scary and fun also!
\nThe third challenge is making it happen. It was a blur. I and five other people slaved over laptops, cardboard cuttings, cad-cam machines in the FabLab (that bit is cool, but some of our cardboard set on fire!!). Three days. Longer than ten hours, set-backs too. An amazing feeling, remixed museums, lots of new friends and lots and lots of coffee and cake. Don\u2019t forget the important cake part. Not many words can describe how much fun it was, how tired we all were. But, I\u2019m just going to go with awesome!
\nI also learned that what I enjoy is communicating about science, art and history. Mixing fields of knowledge and figuring out how best to present them to the world, never thinking that you could mix them until my Museomix experience. Museomix took me on journey, showed me I had some skills I didn\u2019t even know existed. It will do the same for you. <\/p>\n
Diana Pearce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Museomix – basically putting every skill possible in a mixing bowl and mashing it up. It\u2019s awesome! What can I say? I walked into Enginuity, Coalbrookdale one Friday morning, not knowing what to expect. When I had volunteered myself for three days \u2018remixing Enginuity\u2019 I took a leap of faith. I love museums, art and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n