January 29 – April 2, 2022

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Find out what the Heritage Trainee, Sif, has been up to over the past 6 months.

In September 2021, I embarked on a 6 month traineeship at the Museum of Oxford. With only 2 days left at MOX, I am looking back at some of my highlights and proudest achievements.

For the first few weeks it was all hands on deck getting the museum ready for the grand re-opening in October! I spent my days moving around tables and chairs, and placing final objects on display in the Museum Makers Space. Being thrown in at the deep end was challenging but also really, really exciting. On museum opening day, I worked front of house in the gift shop. There were people waiting outside the door at exactly 10am eager to get inside and see the new space!

The same week I started at MOX, I started on an iCreative project at Film Oxford, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

With a group of other young people, I helped to create a short, experimental film about the migration of Welsh people to Oxford in the early 20th century. The film is mainly made up of digital artworks that we composed in response to archival material, photographs, and oral history recordings from the Oxfordshire History Centre. It was a great experience for me to meet people and develop new skills, for example in creating digital art on Photoshop.

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