Another day at the Museum...

A beautiful spring day here in Carlisle Castle.  Despite closing our doors at 3pm yesterday, the whole team turned up to do some emergency planning and preparation to ensure that we can work remotely and engage our visitors over the coming weeks.

 It is not easy being a small independent Museum with big ideas.  Limited staffing and resources mean we are restricted to what we can actually do.  But the Museum team are excellent, creative and willing to give things a go. So today, we all congregated in the Ladies toilet to promote the start of our Museum from Home activities.

 Quirky is the order of the day.  So filming the team washing their hands as per Public Health England's 20 second rule but to the Regimental march 'John Peel'.  A great little promotional video but hiding the fact that we were following hand washing instructions on the wall to make sure we washed them correctly.  That I kept setting off the hand drier and gusts of hot air were flowing down my back.  That we were having to tell each other which hand washing movement was next so we all timed it to perfection!  

 Certainly not Oscar material but lightened the mood and gave us a short film to post on local veteran related social media pages.  Keeping us engaged with our local audiences.  Something that will become more and more important to all Museums over the next few weeks...

 https://www.facebook.com/cmoml/videos/827628641061048/

 #MuseumFromHome  #TeamAlmaNeedsYourSupport

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