The digital stories and posts below have been created by students and staff on the Digital Storytelling Workshops held in the Department of Archaeology at Durham University’s MA in Conservation of Archaeological and Museum Objects. This is a two-year program in which students learn to conserve and care for a range of materials commonly found in cultural heritage. During the first year, the students are taught on the Durham campus and in the second year they spend on a placement in a conservation laboratory at a major museum or cultural heritage institution across the world. Over the last three years, we have been exploring the use of Digital Storytelling within the program’s curriculum as a tool for facilitating the student’s transition onto their placements and helping to develop their identities from “students” to “emerging conservators.”
Students reflect on their relationship to conservation practice telling important biographies that link the personal, experiential and professional together.
In this project, we are required to produce a digital story about an object which is related to my journey to conservation. In my video, I shared about the story of my personal attachment to Tin Hau Temple. The reflection of digital storytelling workshop can be divided into 2 parts, creating a story and visualising […]
A digital story by Shoun Obana about Conservation Practice. MA Conservation of Archaeological & Museum Objects, Durham University
Laura reflects eloquently and poetically on how objects contain memories that bring us back to our pasts. Her well-crafted story leads us to discover and reflect on our own objects and on the nature of objects as containers of memories and stories: as objects hold our individual histories, museums are holders of our shared histories. […]
Sophie Little’s digital story In Between explores her journey to conservation through a reflection drawing on her love of photography.
Lindsey’s digital story explore our relationship with objects, a reflection from a museum conservator.
