After my visit to the museum, I felt I gained a valuable insight into how exhibitions work as an event, how people co-ordinate themselves around that event and how the theme of the event is visible almost everywhere.
Following on from this I decided to try and gain as much primary research as I could, I'd already gathered numerous articles and information from the internet but decided for my exhibition to gain some unique information, I needed to turn to other sources of information and keep my access to the internet restricted.
I visited a bee-keeper that lived nearby, after telling him my reasons to find out information he was more than happy to help, providing me with literature, primary sources of honeycomb, and letting me study inside an unused bee-hive. Without this experience I really doubt I'd of been able to assemble a suitable replication of a beehive.
As part of the publications for the resource box I'd be developing, I thought it would be a very useful and appropriate idea to include contact numbers that could help people set up hives in their local communities. Including such an element into my exhibition gave way to an online presence and another reason for people to attend the exhibition. Not only would I highlight the importance of the honeybee and their decline, I'd also provide a solution for viewers, giving them the necessary tools to combat their decline.
Visit to the Mirehouse, Historic House & Gardens in the Lake District. Here they displayed a bee garden which you could view, although this visit didn't really provide me with any information I didn't already know, it gave me the opportunity to build up my primary photographs which would eventually be compiled into my exhibition.
During a visit to Somerset, I came across a National Trust shop which sold various books on honeybee's and the reasons for becoming a beekeeper, I jotted down some notes and took a few photographs of the most important pages. What all this primary research proved...was that the Honeybee was an issue some people really cared about and understood. A point I really needed to convey in my exhibition, that there's a reason others should care as well.
While in France, I came across a shop that specialised in the uses of honey, developing honey into an array of products, ranging from soap and facial cleaners to Alcohol and medicinal options.
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