Emily Honderich

Bata Shoe Museum Placement Art and Design Education

I volunteered for the Bata Shoe Museum Kids on Sunday, February 5 and Saturday, February 18, 2022. My tasks for the Bata Shoe Museum included Hands-on-presentation, community tours, and being an arts and crafts monitor.

“The community's hands-on presentation and activities include choosing shoes from the basement exhibit and accompanying the visitors to enhance and improve the lesson, such as playing bingo and crafts. There are over 14000 shoes in their collection, and they have a lot of shoes and shoe-related items we helped the museum's visitors explore. The community tours helped with shadowing and participating in giving a community tour of examples of shoes, clothes, and objects and allowed me to engage with the community and its visitors and staff. I helped tour two exhibits. The first exhibit was Obsessed: how shoes became objects of desire which discusses how we have become a society obsessed with shoes. This exhibit features highly exhibited shoes in their collection, representing how industrialization drove shoe consumption, transforming footwear designers into celebrities and shoes into valuable collectibles. The second exhibit was All About Shoes: Footwear Through the Ages, a voyage through four and a half millennia of shoes. This exhibit presents an overview of the history of footwear, exploring the context of their vast collection. ”