Walsall Museum’s Stores

Walsall Council gave our little community a nice chance to take a look behind the scenes at the storage facility where treasures are kept that have no exhibition space for them to be shown. It certainly was a great adventure, I found myself transfixed on old radio and media technology and this rather curious Dictaphone cylinder for some reason.

Again this was a great way that the council were engaging with the local social media crowd. You can enjoy more of Walsall Musuem’s pictures on their flickr group, here is a slideshow of the treasures that they have.

It was a great day and the small group that we had, really found some jems and of course we were able to produce some quite artistic photos of the items, which is why we were called in, with our eyes the details!

Much kudos is owed to, Dan Slee from Walsall Council (who wrote a blog entry), Steph Jennings for making the meetings and calming fears over copyright issues and Catherine Clarke, for guiding us around there and making the musem flickr group happen. It was a great day and the small group that we had, really found some jems and of course we were able to produce some photos quite artistically to show things in a different light than the standard white background which was sort of the whole point anyway.

© Barry Carpenter – Curious Cats!

Posted on Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

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1. SOCIAL PHOTO: 11 ways Flickr can be used by local government « The Dan Slee Blog says:

   June 16, 2010 at 16:08

   [...] 4. Be an enabler – Set-up a Flickr meet. It’s a brilliant way to connect and collaborate.  Here’s my blog on this event from  a council perspective and from a Flickr photographer’s perspective from the excellent Steph Jennings and also Lee Jordan. [...]