The analysis process of curating, while often tedious and annoying, is one of the most important parts. It is really the only way to actually decide what does and doesn't go in your exhibit. Most of our sources were about the bad parts of the Industrial Revolution, with sources showing the filth of the environment, the poverty created, and the huge increase in the cost of living. That was what gave the exhibit the title "The Dark Side of the Industrial Revolution." Visitors may learn that, while the Industrial Revolution gave us a good majority of the products we use today, there were many downsides to it.
The other exhibits in our "museum" were on child labor, the steam engine, weaving, and slave labor. The child labor exhibit taught that children in that time period did not have a lot of time to be children. It is important to know that no matter how many products the Industrial Revolution made possible, all that invention did not come without a price. The steam engine was a hugely important invention in the Industrial Revolution. Without it, everything from factories to railroads would've been impossible. Weaving was one of the major causes in the Industrial Revolution. Inventions in weaving such as the loom and the Spinning Jenny all helped lead to some of the more complex inventions. Slavery was yet another cost of the Revolution. While cotton was a hugely important product, it wasn't worth it given the amount of slave labor that had to be used to harvest and produce it.
