My museum community project final week
June 23, 2009 Community
A book made by one of the group members.
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I’m Shauna O’Brien, an intern on some of the Museum of London’s inclusion programmes. Today was our last session at Coborn Service for Adolescent Mental Health for My Museum project. Over the last few weeks the group have taken their inspiration from objects from the Museum’s collection. Their ideas have developed to include more modern objects in new creations through making collages, sculptures and films. Today the project artist, Emily Candela, taught everyone how to take old story books and make new accordion books.
Everyone each chose a book from a selection Emily bought in and we had to pull out the pages to leave just the cover board. We then removed the spine, leaving the two outside boards. Then everyone cut up some coloured paper to the height of the board and folded it in a zigzag to create the pages of the book. Once these were stuck down, with the addition of a ribbon to tie the book together, a heavy object was placed on the new book to help it stick.
After the break, the glue was dry and the group had books to fill with pictures from the project and new images from magazines to show their journey through the project. Everyone was so creative, and those that weren’t here from the start had the chance to print pictures of the internet and make an autobiography. The books looked really impressive and could be opened up fully to see the whole story develop.
Lucie Fitton (the Museum’s inclusion officer) also bought along some prizes for competitions to guess the historical period of Museum archive images. Everyone was so good and won some London based stationary and books to say goodbye on our last week here!