1001 Stories about Objects – and They Lived Happily Ever After

Exhibition ’1001 Stories about Objects’ has not ended in the Brinkkala Gallery. Thank you to all visitors and those who took part in it!

Collection objects were carefully packed away and transported back to the museum. Should you miss the Atelier Fauni Moomin figures from the 1950s, a number of them are on display in the Turku Castle!

When the objects were packed away, it was necessary to keep in mind their safety and their next location. Museum objects are kept in different storage conditions. 

Exhibition structures were dismantled. In this image the museum technicians are taking down the vitrine lights.

Turun Sanomat published an article about the exhibition on Friday 3 March 2017:

Back to museum internship / 回到博物館實習

Hello everyone, this is Ching Lam again. At the beginning of March I was back for my second internship for the project ‘A Thousand and One Interpretations on Collection Objects’. This time my work was mainly about the info day for immigrant artists in ‘Kansalaistila’ at the Forum shopping centre in Turku. 

First I had to deal with the interview materials from artists who participated in this project. And then I designed posters that show the interview result, also a leaflet with useful websites for immigrant artists. I also contacted artists by e-mail, and translated some texts into traditional Chinese for ‘Kansalaistila’.  

In event days (22.3–24.3.2017) of ‘Kansalaistila’, I was there to talk to artists and guests with my co-workers. In ‘Kansalaistila’, except for the posters of interview results with artists with immigrant background, there was also a ‘Story wall’ that let people put on pictures or drawings of objects that are important to them. This is corresponding to the ‘1001 stories about objects’ exhibition for the project.

It was a great opportunity for me to work in the museum and the project. My co-workers are nice people and I have learnt a lot from them.

Ching Lam 

大家好，我是清琳。三月初的時候我又回到了「館藏物件的一千零一種詮釋」(A Thousand and One Interpretations on Collection Objects) 的實習。這次我的工作主要關於在「市民工間」(Kansalaistila) 舉行的移民藝術家資訊日。(「市民空間」在圖爾庫的Forum購物中心內 )

這次實習中，首先我要處理先前由訪問藝術家所得的材料。然後，我設計了展示訪問結果的海報，以及對移民藝術家有用的資訊單張。我亦聯絡了藝術家，以及將一些展放於「市民空間」空間內的文本翻譯成繁體中文。

在「市民空間」的活動日中 (22.3–24.3.2017)，我與同事們一起與藝術家及其他來賓對話與溝通。在「市民空間」中，除了展示移民藝術家的訪問海報外，亦有一「故事牆」供參加者張貼對他們來說重要的物品的圖片或繪畫。這亦是相應「館藏物件的一千零一種詮釋」計劃。

這是實習對我來說是一個寶貴的機會，讓我可以參與這個計劃。而我的同事們亦十分友善，從他們身上我亦學到了很多。

 

A Pop Up Event in Shopping Centre Forum

A pop up event about the project 1001 Stories about Objects was opened on Wednesday in the shopping centre Forum, in the Museum Centre's Citizen Space. Welcome!

22.3. Events day for artists with foreign background. On display there are interviews of immigrant artists.

22.-24.3. Do drop by to familiarise yourself with stories about objects which immigrant citizens of Turku have shared with us! We are collecting more stories about objects onto the Story Wall - Come and add yours!

Ching Lam assisting with attaching an object's story onto the Story Wall.

1001 Stories about Objects exhibition has been opened!

The exhibition 1001 Stories about Objects is on display in Brinkkala Gallery at the Old Market Square in Turku 27.2. – 2.4.2017.

Old Market Square Galleries are open Tue-Sun 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

Welcome!

An owl pendant was chosen to illustrate the invitation. A student from Hong Kong had received it as a present from his girlfriend.

A series of images about the planning and construction of the exhibition:

A researcher by her tools: information about the objects and photographs in the collection can be examined on WebMusketti collection database.

Museum techinicians are setting up the vitrines.

Plans and designs for the exhibition, a hammer and nails for fixing image panels onto the walls, and glass detergent for cleaning the vitrines.

Researcher cleaning the glass walls of a vitrine.

Conservator placing objects into the vitrines.

Exhibition texts were edited up until the opening night.

Information and image panels have been fixed onto the partition walls of the vitrines, objects have found their right places, and the lights have been set up. Done!

 

Removing and Reusing Hair

Work and professions were the theme of workshops arranged with our Daisy Ladies group of immigrant women. One of our Iraqi participants picked a reel of thread as her object. However, she was not a seamstress but instead she demonstrated her skills as a cosmetologist. In the video she removes hair from the face of a volunteer with the help of thread.

 Collection of the Museum Centre of Turku also contain objects and images having to do with hair and cosmetic care.

 

A number of objects previously belonging to Turun hiusalan yrittäjät have recently been cataloged into the museum collections. This is a Grieser hair-styling kit from approximately the 1930s.

Cultural historical objects collection of the Museum Centre of Turku.

Photographer H. Attila has captured the staff of a hairdressers-barbers salon by their work stations in this photograph taken on 21 April in 1935. The photograph was taken in Turku, possibly at a salon located at Yliopistonkatu 10 b.

Photography collection of the Museum Centre of Turku.

This African comb, carved from a single piece of wood, ended up in the museum collection from the confectionary factory Hellas Oy. In 1948, it was found in a sack of cocoa beans that had come from the Gold Coast, Africa.

Cultural historical objects collection of the Museum Centre of Turku.

Hair has been used as a decorative element in intricate pieces of jewellery as in this brooch from the beginning of the 19th century. The brooch is currently on display in the Turku Castle.

Cultural historical objects collection of the Museum Centre of Turku.

In Kaisu Koivisto’s artwork called Villi (‘Wild’), from 1997, long horsehair sprouts out from underneath the seat of a spoke chair. This piece of contemporary art belongs in the Turku City Art Collection.