‘I came to the George Marshall Medical Museum for three days of February half term from Worcester Sixth Form College. I was interested in doing work experience here because I chose early modern history and classical civilisation as A-levels, both of which involve an element of history, with Classics requiring analysis of historical artefacts.
The time I have spent at the museum was even more interesting and diverse than I expected. I have helped to create a history trail around the museum, engaged with visitors as part of a tour, and transcribed an oral history recording about being a midwife in Worcester and the surrounding areas. Furthermore, I also looked through newspaper clippings belonging to medical professionals; in order to select relevant information which could be used by the museum in future projects.
My favourite part of work experience was looking through the old newspapers because it was amazing to see that so much history had been preserved in such a casual fashion as a scrapbook. It made me think that the memories we store in current scrapbooks could someday be used and looked at by other students in a similar way.
In summary, I would highly recommend coming to the George Marshall Medical Museum as a visitor, or for work experience. The museum itself contains a varied and wide amount of medical history with some of the tales of the artefacts verging on gory! The building itself is very busy and has a good atmosphere; I enjoyed working in an area which was being used by current medical students as well as visitors. My work experience here has proven to me that I would be interested in pursuing a career involving museum or archiving work.’