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Nano Nagle Place, Museum in a Box,  2017

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Discovering stories ourself is extremely satisfying.

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In 2015, Nano Nagle Place, Cork offered me a scholarship to study narratology and material culture in MTU.

As part of my studies, I produced a Museum in a Box containing fifteen objects which told fifteen stories about real women living in late eighteenth-century Cork city. The box is aimed as school students.

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museum props interpretation
museum props interpretation
18th century crime
museum props interpretation

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The interpretation pieces above tell a tale of a woman who wished to poison her husband. She wrote a note to her lover asking him to buy poison and the note was delivered to him in a public place. The illiterate lover asked a bye-stander to read the letter aloud. A nearby policeman overheard the plan and the couple were arrested and sentenced to time in the pillory.

 

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1   Introductory card explaining how to use the objects and clues.            3  Facsimile of the newspaper reports of at the crime

 

2  Card illustrating the event and giving further details of the story           4  Fabricated version of the letter           

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museum props interpretation
museum props interpretation
museum props interpretation

Further objects and clues

18th century gaming
18th century Cork
18th century Cork

Further illustrated story detail cards

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