INTERNSHIP 1

             HMNS History Project


    Since November, I have been working with a group of people on a history project for the HMNS (Houston Museum of Natural Science). This project consists of finding out more about the history of the museum and documenting it.

    We spend three hours a week at the libraries (Rice University, University of Houston, Downtown Houston Public Library...) looking through the newspaper articles, to find relevant information about the history of the museum. We also has access to the documents at the museum's archives, once. In addition, we interview multiple people who worked or who are currently working for the museum/volunteering in order to collect more informations. I interviewed Ms. Donna Meadows on December and I asked her about her work at the museum and the changes that occurred since she first started working there. Other people are also conducting other interviews, and we hope that by the end of the spring season we would have enough informations to present our findings to the public.

     This project is one of the most challenging projects I've worked on so far because it require a lot of patience and work. I've went many times to the library, looked through newspapers and online databases in vain. We don't know whether the newspapers we pick would have informations or not, as we don't know whether the people who we interview would have different informations to share with us from what we already have. I had so many unsuccessful weeks, where I go to the library, look through the documents, and find nothing. But, we all hope that our efforts would be worth it.