Museum and Coronavirus in 2020

In common with many smaller museums, we are closed until further notice.

However, volunteers have been busy in various ways behind the scenes. For example, we set our primary school children a challenge and asked them to keep a Corona diary of their activities and thoughts during this new way of living. Today (the anniversary of VE Day) a page of one of the older children's diaries was sent through.

It is a considered piece of writing with descriptions of national and local activities, thoughts about the way everyone is reacting and even some ideas for living life in the future. Between them, the children will produce a fantastic record of Flintham life under lockdown which will be available for future generations.

 
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We have assisted the County Council with their VE Day commemorations by sending lots of information about WWII rationing. This has been used to create quizzes which are online for anyone to have a go. 

We are also trying to record the VE Day memories of four of our residents. Currently we haven't worked out how best to do it because of social distancing, extreme deafness (which rules out the phone) poor eyesight (which makes it difficult to send a list of questions) and lack of computers so no means of chatting online. However, we are persevering because it is important to gather memories while we are still able so to do. And, we want to use some of the information in the autumn term when the older children at the primary school will be studying WWII from a child's perspective.

Knitting fidget muffs for people with dementia has occupied some of our volunteers. There are lots of colourful muffs just waiting to be decorated so that they can be sent out. The museum's Dementia Team will be holding a ZOOM session in the next week so that we can talk through getting our Daisy Game about the 1960s into the public domain (see below for details of the game's development and production). We assumed the game would be used in nursing homes but now is not an appropriate time to be contacting that sector.

There must be lots of people living with someone who has dementia, perhaps without a garden, and unable to leave their house. We know the Daisy Game takes people back to a time when they felt comfortable and were in control. If you know someone whom you think would benefit from the Daisy Game, please get in touch for further details.

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