Name
Mel Bekir

Job title
Museum Administration Officer

Describe a typical working day at Epping Forest District and Lowewood Museums.
Generally, balancing budgets!!! … placing orders, processing invoices, fielding phone calls. And so much more!

What is your favourite thing about working at the Museum?
A happy friendly team.

Share one piece of advice for those interested in working in the Museum field.
You do not have to be a historical whizz kid to work within the administration sector of the Museum; and it adds another dimension to the administration work you undertake. Where else can you be balancing figures in the morning and helping the Exhibitions Officer with the launch of the latest touring exhibition in the afternoon!

Which historical figure would you like to meet and why. What would you ask them?
Ronald Reagan – I would have to ask him, as a young jobbing actor, did he ever envisage one day being the holder of the most powerful job on earth!!.. How did that transition happen??!!

Where would you choose to go/visit if you could go anywhere in the world for a day? Cheesy as this may sound, I would love to go to Northern Cyprus for the day. Its where my parents were born and as a child we visited every couple of years. We would stay in my grandmother’s very simple home in the beautiful village of Lourougina on the Turkish/Greek border. I haven’t been since 1984 and my grandparents and all my uncles are no longer with us but it would be nice to go back to the village where they all grew up and re-live some of my childhood memories.

What was the first music track or album you bought?
Donny Osmond – Puppy Love