Guildhall Museum | Research ~ PP

Before meeting with my contact for the museum, I decided to go there and do some research on the museum itself. As I've never been to the museum, I thought by going there it would help me visualise things better, and also it will help me when discussing the project with my contact.

Within the museum there are roughly six different segments that show different times in history. There are rooms that show the history of Rochester castle with a little room on the side that allows children to interact with the museum's history.
There is the Court Hall which is where court sessions used to be held, with portraits of important people of that time. The hall holds important jewellery and different objects that the mayor and other government workers use to wear on special occasions. There are also little objects here and there from the same time period.
There is a section dedicated to the River Medway, including people who worked in that sort of department and different models of ships and from across the years.
Opposite this section is a 'Hulks' exhibition that has information from that time period, from the ships that held prisoners along with the interior that is close to matching what it would've been like on an actual hulks ship.
Further along, in a separate building, there is a Charles Dickens section where they show some of the old objects that Dickens used to own, while also showing a little film about him. In that same building there is a little section on the Dickens time period and what the towns people would've looked like around those days.

The museum itself is actually quite interesting, and even though it's fairly small, there is still a lot of history specific to Medway. All of the objects and sections of the museums are all packed with history while also keeping it child friendly as that is what the museum is used for most.
By visiting the museum and seeing what sort of things they show, it will help me with knowing the tone of the museum which will then aid me with the tone of the video I will be making for them.