My name is Monica Conary. I am a fourth year Museum Studies and Anthropology major. I’m most interested in exhibition design and visitor engagement! I love working on projects that integrate audience interactives. I’m also interested in how museums incorporate activism into their exhibits, and how their ideas can push a movement forward or create their own movement within the museum. My favorite museum is the Tropenmuseum, an ethnographic museum in the Netherlands. In my free time, I love to knit, walk my dog, and read as many books as I can get my hands on.
I have completed an internship with the New York Folk Society, listening and transcribing interviews, and also cataloging photographs. I also had the opportunity this summer to intern at the Kawanhee History Museum at Camp Kawanhee for Boys. Some of the projects I completed while I was there included organizing the extensive photograph collection and working on several of the exhibits within the museum. I also created several exhibit posters and worked on the history kiosks that were located around the camp. I was able to interact with the campers and create activities that related to the camps history. Besides working in the museum, I also had the opportunity to work in the camp store after dinner and I had an awesome time interacting with the campers! I stayed onsite so I was completely immersed in camp life and the community. It was a great summer experience.
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| The Kawanhee History Museum |
