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Week 16 · Term Two · One inspectable hall

The Museum of Ordinary Magic

Turn one gallery table into grams and hours a conservator can check: a pigment paste, a bronze alloy, a glass batch, a light budget, and a panel that does not say the object is authentic.

A label survives only the masses it can show.

Monday keeps 12 + 4 + 8 = 24 g. Tuesday balances copper 18 + tin 2. Wednesday marks 15 + 3 + 2 as a melt. Thursday names the hours left. Friday writes a panel a skeptical family can inspect.

Day 1

Monday

20 minutes

Chemistry · A paste is not a provenance

Weigh the Pigment Card

Treat a pigment card as three weighed parts that add, and refuse to let a wall color stand in for a recipe.

Make

A pigment card

Museum handoff: The pigment card is filed. The bronze is still open — a labeled paste is not yet an alloy a visitor can check.

Day 2

Tuesday

25 minutes

Art · An alloy is still its metals

Balance the Bronze

Account a bronze as copper plus tin, and refuse a restored-gold claim.

Make

A bronze card

Museum handoff: The bronze card is filed. The glass melt is still open — a labeled alloy is not yet a shard a visitor can check.

Day 3

Wednesday

25 minutes

History · One shard is not the melt

Read the Glass Batch

Add the three melt parts, and refuse to let one shard stand in for a recovered workshop.

Make

A glass-batch card

Museum handoff: The glass batch is filed. The light budget is still open — a labeled melt is not yet a case a family can inspect.

Day 4

Thursday

20 minutes

Ethics · Who the lights may not hide

Name the Light Budget

Keep the remaining budget and the fade risk on the same public card, and refuse a saved-object headline.

Make

A light-budget card

Museum handoff: The light budget is filed. The interpretation panel is still open — a refused poster is not yet a notebook a family can inspect.

Day 5

Friday

25 minutes

Public writing · A panel families can check

File the Interpretation Panel

Write an interpretation panel that uses this week’s grams and hours and states what the table still cannot prove.

Make

A Museum interpretation panel

Museum handoff: The interpretation panel is filed. Term Two now has one inspectable museum model — not a claim that the object is authentic.

Open the museum journal.

The panel uses only work entered here. It does not infer a recovered recipe, an authentic object, grades, mastery, attendance, or accreditation.

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