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A very familiar face at the Peterborough Museum and Archives will be missed come June 27th as longtime curator Kim Reid steps into retirement.
Almost four decades after she first darkened the museum’s doors, Reid is calling it a day after curating more than 200 exhibits during her tenure. In 2004, she also dealt with the aftermath of the flood that devastated Peterborough, helping save the Roy Studio collection of historic photographs.
Reid recalls that when she was enrolled in the Creative Arts Administration program at Fleming College, fate intervened to bring her to the museum.
Noting her ambition early on was to become an artist, Reid notes her work as museum curator has satisfied that desire, albeit in a different way.
Of all the museum exhibits she has curated, Reid says one stands out as a favourite.
Asked what retirement will look like for her, Reid says her immediate plan is to tend to her yard, which she says “took quite a kicking” during the ice storm, as well as get her garden “back in order.”
(Written by: Paul Rellinger)
