Dani's Day Fourteen Reflections

June 24th, 2016

Journal

10am-11am

Maeve and I updated our journal entries.

Interviews

11am-12:15??pm

As usual, the morning was slow. We were only able to interview a few people.

Lunch

12:15pm-1:20pm

More Interviews

1:20pm-4pm

More visitors were in the museum at this point but it was still pretty slow. By the end of the day, Maeve and I had conducted 28 interviews. One of my interviews today was 20 mins long. The two older women I was interviewing were members and had a long history of visiting the museum. Although they liked the exhibit, they critiqued the way the museum had been dealing with African and African American art. They were disappointed by the fact that the museum wasn't holding tours of the exhibit and didn't feel that they had done enough promotion. They also suggested the PMA using docents from the Penn Museum to give tours of the Look Again exhibit since they would have more knowledge about the artifacts. Other visitors were disappointed by the museum's failure to provide an adequate amount of cultural context.

I was also able to meet Ananias Léki Dago, one of the photographers who's featured in Creative Africa.

Transcriptions

4pm

By 4pm, no one was in Look Again so we went home to transcribe.