Time to roll up your sleeves

Setting up the exhibition space

I spent Friday in the excellent company of Robin Goodfellow who is one of the Museum's Trustees. Robin has been a huge source of information and help throughout the project and I always feel very privileged, not only be allowed access to the museum's artefacts, but also to be able to have such an expert on hand. 
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We have been moving things around in preparation for the exhibition and during one of the visits to the Museum's store room I was struck by an arrangement halfway up the wall, which I wanted to share with you. 

Collection of objects on the storeroom wall

At this point we were joined  by another of the Museum's tireless Trustees, Phil Wookey. Both Phil and Robin are academics who worked for local Universities before retirement which has been very useful for discussing the chemical reactions involved in making iron gall ink but they are just as happy discussing fixings or display cases.  However, whilst lifting a very heavy display case down the stairs we were treated to a wry comment from Phil,  which had me smiling for days;
​                                    'As an academic you move a lot of furniture'.

The indomitable Robin Goodfellow and Phil Wookey