Hello
all! My name is Heather McCorquodale and I will be completing my internship at
the Association of Nova Scotia Museums this summer as a requirement for the
Museum Management and Curatorship program at Fleming College. I’m very excited
to be here for the next few months as the ANSM has lots of great things on the
go!
I’m
originally from Prince Edward County, Ontario, which is now a bit of a tourist
attraction but was (and mostly still is) very rural and quiet when I was
growing up. This meant lots of time spent in the woods around our house and
making art projects all the time. Growing up I had a grandmother and uncle just
outside of Hamilton, who we would visit during the summer and at Christmas, and
it was on these trips that my parents took my sister and I to all kinds of
museums and heritage sites. After high school I decided to take Digital
Photography at Durham College, and between my two years there I worked at a
small museum called The Wellington Heritage Museum in Wellington, Ontario. I
had a wonderful experience there as a summer student and was able to get a lot
of great exposure to all the goings-on of a small museum.
There
was an intern from the Museum Management and Curatorship program at the museum
at the time so, in a way, she had taught me the basics of what the program I
would decide to take two years later would offer. At this museum I also had the
chance to combine my photographic and digital knowledge with artifacts as I was
tasked with digitizing much of their canning label collection. I found it to be
a lot of fun, being able to connect with parts of history while using
technology and the skills I had learned at school to my advantage. A year after
finishing the program at Durham, I decided to take the program at Fleming and
here I am now.
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