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MUSEUM WORK PLACEMENT

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MUSEUM WORK PLACEMENT

Good morning and welcome. We’re really pleased that you’re going to be joining us next
week for your work placement. Now, each of you will already have met the member of
museum staff assigned to supervise you. In this short talk today I’ll be giving you more
general information which will be relevant to all six of you. Your normal working day is
nine to five p.m. but on Monday, because it’s your first day, we’d like you to arrive at
quarter to nine. Please note, though, that you’ll finish at the usual time.

A lot of you have been asking what you should wear for work. Well, you may have
noticed that we’re not exactly a formal (1) ____________________ so you’d really
be out of place if you wear smart (2) ____________________like a suit. If you go
out on a trip with us, then we’d like you to wear a museum cap ... it has our logo on and
we feel it helps people recognise you. But, on a day-to-day basis in the museum itself
we say put on your own casual clothing because you’ll be doing lots of (3)
____________________, messy work!

Now, we don’t have an enormous number of rules but work placement is an excellent
preparation for the real world of work and we expect you to be very (4)
____________________ and reliable. If you’re not well or there’s been a hold-up
then what we ask you to do is ring the museum receptionist ... he will be in the museum
well ahead of opening time and he’ll inform your own personal supervisor in the
museum. If you’re away for more than one day, we’ll inform your school tutor . they’ll
obviously need to make a note of your absence and follow up if necessary.

But most of all we hope you really enjoy yourselves during the placement. Students say
they have a lot of fun, whether it’s working with kids in our art workshops held every
Monday or, the most popular, when they go out on our (5) ____________________
work to residential homes, recording elderly people’s memories of school days for our
oral history project.

So we hope you feel excited by the prospect of starting next week and well prepared.
Your personal supervisor will be there to help you with our health and safety
requirements when you start next week and your supervisors will also (6)
____________________ you about the background to the museum, summarising all
the huge amount of information on our website. In the next couple of days it might be
worthwhile if you get hold of evaluations and other notes made by students who’ve
worked with us before you can get a lot of (7) ____________________ from them.

Now before I finish today, I wanted to help you find your way around the museum.
When you start next Monday, the first thing you’ll need to do is sign in. Come through
the main entrance and you’ll see the main (8) ____________________straight
ahead. To the right of this is the statue of the horse and just behind that is a door - go
through that and that’s the sign-in office. Now, on the first day you’ll be working in
Gallery 1. You find this as follows ... in the central (9) ____________________, close
to the entrance, there’s a large chest where visitors put donations for the museum. The
door just behind that leads to Gallery 1. The workshop you’ll be taking part in starts at
eleven o’clock but if you want to go in earlier you can get the key and let yourself in. The
key box is quite hard to find. Walk behind (10) ____________________ and it’s
between the large gallery and the bookshop.
I haven’t mentioned breaks, lunch etc. Unfortunately, our cafe’s closed at the moment
so your best bet is to bring a packed lunch. We tend to have our sandwiches in the
kitchen area ... go round the reception desk and you’ll see a small circular (11)
____________________ - the door to the kitchen area is just behind that.

Now everyday, we put up notices about what’s happening in the museum. Your
supervisor will brief you but if you want to check up on details, look on our staff (12)
____________________. This is in the corner of the play area - at the back, on the
wall of Gallery 3.

If you have any questions, I’d be happy to .

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