English 102 Paper 4

"and in the end"
The Beatles

the Final Project

The Final Project will be the sequel itself. It will be about eight pages and is also worth up to 100 points.

As I noted on the Museum Project page, what you produce here for the final depends quite a bit on what you have researched, how you imagined differentiating your museum, and how you wish to present the information.

Well, you can't.

A Brochure is not a Catalog.
You are doing a Catalog

Brochures are advertising tools; they are generally short, often single sheets of paper folded into thirds with bits of information in columns. Yes, they do often have pictures as well

Catalogus are typically several pages, often bound on the edge and often with stiffer covers than the pages of information; think of them as short books. A museum catalog might actually be quite long, but yours will be only about sixteen pages (that's because 1/2 of your catalogue will be things like picturs and the floorplan, and those do not count as pages of text).

You probably looked at a catalogue when you visited a museum. If not, that's OK. They usually have various sections. Those sections are listed back on the main part of this Museum Final Project page.

Your final project will include a look at the key features of your museum, as a catalog (which is not the same as a brochure; see an explanation of the difference in the pinkish box on the right), as a PowerPoint presentation, or a museum website. This should be at least eight pages (spread out over various sections, of course) not counting the many pictures or the floorplan you will have, and it is worth up to 100 points.

It's hard to give you a specific page count. Your project will likely have several sections, and a lot depends on the vehicle (paper, PowerPoint, web) you use. You should have lots of pictures of "things" in your museum, and you will want accompanying text with the images (like a sign with information by an exhibit in an actual museum). With so many images, this could be pretty long. In the text you want a lot of detail; here are the kinds of things (or sections or tabs) often found in a museum catalog or on a museum website:

an About Us (or Welcome to the Museum of XYZ) section, which may have some background/history of the museum and probably the museum mission statement
a page with Admission, Hours, Location, Directions, Parking, Contact Information is especially important on a website, but some of that is often found in a catalog as well
a floorplan (an absolute must; think of this as a map visitors will follow)
sections on key exhibits with a few representative pictures and the accompaning informative text
a more in-depth secion on at least one special exhibit; this may actually be word-for-word (or a shorter version of) your research paper, including the Works Cited page
Other misc. sections might include "What to do at the Museum," "Special Events," "Visit the Cafe and Gift Shop" (if you have one or both), "Thanks to our Sponsors," etc.

You certainly may turn this in as a Word (.doc, .docx. .pdf or .rtf) or .pdf document, but since there will be a lot of visuals as well as text, consider a Prezi or a PowerPoint file (attached to an e-mail), or (even better, especially if you are Web-savvy or have just always wanted to try making a Web page), you could create a museum website (maybe on a free blogsite such as WordPress or using SimpleSite or Weebly or a number of other free platforms) and send me the URL (http address) to the site where I can look at it.

you are not alone

You could look again at these sites to get some ideas: Museum of Jurassic Technology site and The Book of the Grotesque.

You can also view some Museum Final Project samples for the museum in the Resources section on Etudes.

Station Eleven - Museum Final Project

"and in the end" The Beatles

the Final Project

you are not alone

"and in the end"
The Beatles