My Work Experience in Fort Rinella Museum
10.01.2015-‐10.02.2015
Erasmus Plus Malta
Fort Rinella Museum Fondazzjoni Wirt Artna
Fort Rinella is a fort built during the Victorian age. Located in Malta near Kalkara it’s one of the four war museums. Since 1991 Fondazzjoni Wirt Artna -‐ Malta Heritage Trust has restored the fort for the tourists. The foundaEon is a voluntary non-‐governmental organizaEon acEve in the field of heritage preservaEon.
One of its principal objecEves is to create awareness to encourage the beMer understanding and preservaEon of the cultural heritage of the Maltese islands. For this reason, over the years, Fondazzjoni Wirt Artna has undertaken the rehabilitaEon and restoraEon of various cultural properEes. Most of the cultural properEes which FWA holds in trust, are made accessible to the public.
100 ton- gun
In line with its objecEves, FWA seeks to provide the visiEng public with the highest form of interpretaEon that will enable a beMer understanding and appreciaEon of our cultural heritage. For this reason FWA also undertakes to build and maintain cultural collecEons with which to establish museums.
The 4 Ps of Fort Rinella
Fort Rinella offers only one type of product but with different prices: • Adult: €12 • Family group: €29 (2 x Adults plus 3 children u/16yrs). • Children u/16yrs: €5 If you want to see the others war museums you can buy a MulE-‐site Heritage Pass: with this pass you can see Malta at War Museum, Lascaris Museum and the SaluEng BaMery with a discount
Fort Rinella’s Events Fort Rinella organizes different themed events , one of the most famous ones is the Roman fesEval. The fesEval includes a combinaEon of talks, hands-‐on displays, staEc exhibiEons of weapons and equipment, food and wine tasEng and large-‐scale re-‐enactments depicEng different forms of Roman warfare in the field.
Cavalry display Re-enactor’s display
Fort Rinella’s Organization
For one month I worked in Rinella with an incredible person. My tutor was Claudia, an Italian woman who decided to go to Malta to improve her English. My tasks in Rinella were: welcoming people, giving informaEon about the history of the fort, helping with the donaEons and organizaEon of the gia shop.
I was an assistant with another girl.
My Challenges and My Outcomes
When I lea to Malta, I was scared about the traineeship and the host family. While the Eme passed , my host family and my tutor helped me to fight my fears. In one month I improved my English and my abtude with people. Thanks to this traineeship I undestood that its very difficult to have contact with tourists if you are a shy girl.
EvaluaEon of My Traineeship
Advice and Host Family
My advice for people who do a traineeship is that you mustn’t be scared about the traineeship because it can be easy if you believe in yourself. You will have fun and you can meet new people from different places in the word. I had a lot of luck because I think that I met the best family in Malta. They were incredible, sweet and with lots of happiness. They learned to love me as a daughter. They are my second family.
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