Museum Curator

I like the analysis part of the project because I got to see and read many different documents and learn  about different points of view that people had on the topic. I think analysis is important part of curating because it gets you to become an expert on the topic. If people ask you a certain question, its important that you did your analysis right because, if you did not you might not know the right answer. My group had to do our research on steam engines, and we all watched Thomas the tank engine as a kid. We made a connection to our class and our childhood, so we thought it would be a fitting title for our group. I hope that people will learn how important and revolutionary the steam engine was to the Industrial Revolution.
The poster also gives a chart of the annual income for citizens in Great Britain along with a picture of a dirty, polluted river and also gives a journal entry about the filth of the River Thames. The poster shows a map of all the coals mines in Great Britain.
 From this poster I learned that more and more kids were being taken in to produce less cotton. What I thought was very interesting was the fact that there was way more female workers than males in the cotton farms.
I learned that many children were hurt doing work. I also learned that kids were forced to work under severe living conditions. The most surprising thing about this poster was the fact the machines never stopped for one minute and some one was always working on the machines.
In the last poster about the new textiles innovations, some of which were the Almond Loom and the spinning Jenny. The new machines they made were so efficient that they had to make new factories just to hold them.