Pink family in Memphis

Katie, graduate student, tells us what she did at her internship in Memphis, Tennessee.

“This summer I worked as a Community Engagement intern at the Pink Palace Family of Museums in Memphis, Tennessee. As a community engagement intern, I worked at community engagement tables, which means that I went out into the different communities of Memphis to collect different information for the upcoming Bicentennial Exhibit at the Pink Palace. The information that we collected included voice recordings from the people of Memphis and visitors of Memphis, photographs of the people from Memphis, and words that people use to describe Memphis. I also had the opportunity to search through the Pink Palaces’ collections management database to find items for the “Community Curated” part of the exhibit. The reason that this part of the exhibit is called “Community Curated” is because the community is going to get to vote for an item to be on display. The winning item will then be on display for about a month; there will be a new item each month the exhibit is open. While there were other projects that I completed as the community engagement intern, I learned the most from these two projects. These projects taught me how important it is to involve your community in your museum.”