The working life of Museum of London

Hello again!

It’s been a month since we finished our fifth Volunteer Inclusion Project (VIP5) and since then we’ve been busy preparing for our next one. Ladies & Gents, VIP6 is here!

Not ones to remain content with what we’ve achieved so far, we’ve stepped it up a gear and changed things a little from previous set ups. This time round, there will be a mighty force of 20 volunteers, with 10 forming Monday’s team and the other half, Friday’s.

On top of this, we welcome 2 additional groups of volunteers on Wednesday’s, who’ll be documenting their experience using photos and video. In the mornings we’ll be joined by volunteers from “Capital A” and the afternoon session will see members from the Central London YAC in the LAARC.

And finally we welcome back VIP5’s Saturday volunteers, who are the first to pick up where we left off by volunteering today!

Work wise, it’s more of the same. Glynn continues to manage the General Finds project, improving the storage and accessibility of objects looked at as an assemblage. Meanwhile, Adam will continue with improving the Registered Finds, auditing these objects with an individual value. From the looks of things we’re going to be in for a treat as the first site Glynn and his team will be tackling is the St Thomas Street archive, (1STS74), with numerous pieces of pottery to work through. And the first site the volunteers will be getting their hands on with Adam is the mammoth archive of the General Post Office, Newgate Street (GPO75).

To keep up to date with how we’re getting on, be sure to revisit these pages as we’ll be blogging each week with news, photos and our progress.