What we did to find out about our topic and create our exhibition: We visited Kirkleatham Museum because they had an exhibition about Gertrude Bell. This allowed us to learn more about her. Then at school, we did some work about the features that were included in the exhibition. From this, we were able to decide what we wanted to include in our own exhibition and the resources that we needed. As Gertrude Bell’s grandfather and father were involved in Ironstone mining, we visited the Ironstone Mining Museum. There we were able to look at artefacts, we did some work on inferring from pictures and we gathered more information for our exhibition.
Our exhibition included: