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Other Volunteer Activities
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Archiving Old Pictures on Glass
March 2007 - December 2007
The volunteers started their 16th project in March 2007, again in the Volkskunde
Museum under the guidance of the curator, Werner Van Hoof.
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They were asked to put pictures painted on glass into acid free boxes, check, complete and digitalize the inventory of these pictures.
The pictures had already been cleaned by students in previous years.
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Above and left: Writing in the inventory numbers.
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The pictures all came in series out of old boxes (5 to 15
pictures in a box) and they covered a very large spectrum of
subjects like well known fairytales, legends, little stories,
jokes,
old games, shadows, clowns, colonial stories, fossils, primitive
populations, old production systems, like distilleries, wool
industries, leather shops etc. Some were very funny others extremely interesting.
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Above and right: Checking the inventory numbers.
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The volunteers received guided tours through the last two exhibitions by the curator. The museum was commemorating its 100 years of existence in 2007 but on 18th August 2007 it closed
to the public in order to organize the move to the new MAS (Museum aan de
Stroom) which is currently been built.
Everything in the museum
had now to be packed, but before that, all the inventories had to be checked and completed.
By December 2007 more than 4,000 pictures on glass were numbered and packed.
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