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How to tell the story of WW2 in museums

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Object Selection - What's Your Favorite Object Display?

Everything in the galleries is from the time. That does help you to narrow things down a little miss, yes. And it's also about em looking at the overarching narrative an getting those key messages and what objects support that. Do you have a particular favourite object display? Er, i think one of my favorites is actually a micrometer. It was er owned by a lady called louis white who worked in blackburn aircraft factory. She wrote in her diary how she was so proud that she got promoted to inspector,. Her colleague engraved her name on the macrometer for her. I'd read all this information in her diaries that ere in the collection, and i thought,

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