San Diego History Center - Diego Diaz, Week 3

 San Diego History Center - Diego Diaz, Week 3

Hello everyone! Welcome back for my week 3 recap at the San Diego History Center. This week started off by working remotely, continuously adding on to my curiosity cart, script, infographic, timeline, and descriptions. I was able to get much done and focus mainly on finalizing research details for the script, as well as work on the City Heights organization descriptions.


The following day, I had the opportunity of joining in on a meeting, generally occurring weekly with the collections staff. I found myself very engaged as I observed how they plan to relocate various artifacts including an early 1990s’ piano and various other household pieces. The rest of the day consisted of working on the given projects, and going down to the collections room in discussing my progress with Jen, our program manager. 


Wednesday, I got the opportunity to view a variety of items which were newly donated to the collection. I observed as the collection staff sorted through the objects and determined what they believed should be kept as well what was not desired. Later throughout the day, I got a full tour of the archives and got to see the endless collection of artifacts housed within the museum. I thoroughly enjoyed getting to see the variety of objects such as historic clothing pieces, paintings, sculptures, photographs, as well as a wide variety of interesting objects tied to rich historic moments within San Diego history. 



Moving on throughout my week, I was able to make vast progress within my projects while unfortunately encountering a big problem relating to my curiosity cart. Over the past weeks, I honed in on the Lemon Grove Incident as my topic for the Curiosity Cart. However, I was recently informed that a Curiosity Cart is meant to be more interactive and given the information I had, there was no adequate way of incorporating those ideas to be interactive with museum guests. Nonetheless, I quickly began brainstorming and ended up shifting my topic to businesses founded within San Diego. 


This new theme has allowed me to gain knowledge of the success of various locally developed businesses, delving

into their vision as a brand as well as following their success and implementations worldwide.


My third week wrapped up by working remotely and attempting to finish as much as I could to prepare for my last

week within the San Diego History Center. 


¡Casi hemos terminado!


Diego Diaz




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