Kingston Museums Summer Staff Round Robin

Round Robin participants on the Alexander Henry (Marine Museum)

For the third year in a row, members of the Kingston Association of Museums, Galleries and Historic Sites were invited to participate in a Round Robin Professional Development day. Once again the event was organized by the Museum of Health Care at Kingston, with the goal of introducing local museum summer staff (all students starting their careers in heritage) to each other, and to the work being done at the different sites.

Thank you for your Patronage to our Hall of Honour Exhibits at Kingston General Hospital

Curatorial Assistant Erin Manning (L) and Collections Intern Tanya Szulga (R)

Curator’s Blog guest post written by Collections Intern Tanya Szulga:Over the past twenty years the Museum of Health Care has created exhibits for the Kingston General Hospital’s Hall of Honour. Recently KGH staff is working on a new redesign of this area and as part of that design process asked the museum to remove the exhibits for construction and carpet removal due to begin in July 2011.

Interview with Former Curator Paul Robertson

As mentioned at the bottom of the previous blog post, after seven years with the Museum of Health Care, former Curator Paul Robertson has decided to move on. The Museum of Health Care thanks Paul for his many years of innovative, exciting curatorial work and wishes him all the best in his new position.

Before his departure, we conducted a mini interview with Paul. Here are Paul’s answers: