Cheerful Barber Shop

Barber Museum

As we have two projects themed museum based learning. We decided to build our own school museum as a final output.  
We have chosen barbering for our thematic museum room as barbering is a very productive research subject of social sciences. There are several reasons for barbering being a research subject in social sciences : 
1.    Barbering has a deep history and while a lot of jobs have come to an end, barbering has evolved,  
2.    In past, it had functions like being a dentist, doctor and a circumciser. Although those functions are taken apart now , old people still think that they’re the journalists and psychologists of their neighbourhoods. 
3.    Barbers have been a symbol of culture from past to present. Following the historical development of barbering will give you the opportunity of analyzing the cultural change of your country.  
4.    In our culture, barbering has an important position. Even it has a place at the beginning of our childhood stories as riddles.  “Develer tellal iken pire berber iken” .In different cultures we could find several traditional songs, riddles, stories and tongue twisters about barbering. Thinking that the word ‘’barber’’ is common almost in all languages, collecting pieces (songs,riddles,ads  …etc ) about barbers provided youngsters with an awareness on cultural and linguistic diversities and with a respect for eachother
5.    The past researches on that topic has been restricted and there has not been a museum on just barbering culture. Barbering only takes place in career museums. Our museum has been the first Barbering History and Culture Museum. 

While studying that topic we both had desk researches and paid visits to people and institutions actively working in that sector ( We visited the Chamber of Barbers and signed a protocol ; we found the oldest barber of our region and visited him in his shop.We made his one day a documentary ) 
Learning more we bought several tonsorial objects used in past and objects currently being used. We formed a unique collection of tonsorial books, comics and magazines. We designed our museum room with those collections and had some tonsorial songs and our documantary in the background