#museum education

[belovedapollo]

from when I went and visited the Zoological Museum in Hamburg 🪲 reblog is ok, don’t repost/use

#my photos #museum #nature museum #zoology #bugs #butterfly #biology #stemblr #stem academia #science museum #stem aesthetic #museum photography #museum display #museum collections #museum education #bugblr #dark academia #dark academia aesthetic

[saintartemis]

Musings of a Museum Professional.

Working with visitors means that you end up thinking of way better ways of answering a visitor's question, hours after the interaction.

#its a fairly regular occurance #museums #museum life #always room for improvement #museum work #museum worker #museum education #museum professional #GLAM #artemis speaks

[itsjustanne]

I've gotten really interested in collections policies. I've had a little experience in this area, so my supervisor has directed me to updating these thing. Now that I've updated the policy as best I can (according to the American Alliance of Museums guidelines), I'm working on updating the way we store basic information about our collection.

#annie talks #mostly to myself #studyblr #history studyblr #art history #studying #history #study motivation #student #history student #art history student #college student #museums #museum education #grad student #study aesthetic #college aesthetic #student aesthetic #desksetup #desk of the day

[brooklynmuseum]

Can we get a show of hands for those in favor of more art in the classroom… 🙋🙋‍♀️

Our Summer Teacher Institute for K-12 educators is just around the corner, taking place from July 17–20. Through a combination of close-looking, art-making, and reframing, we’ll explore how art can be used to teach students about climate change and inspire them to take action toward environmental justice.

Learn more about the Summer Teacher Institute, including the four-day schedule and additional financial assistance, here: https://bit.ly/3XaQe09

📷 Brooklyn Museum. (Photo: Khamaali Vernon, Kearra Gopee)

#Brooklyn Museum #brooklyn #museum #art #bkmeducation #art education #New York City #nyc #nyc events #education #museum education #teacher resources #teachers resources

[artfullittleminds]

#art education #moms #moms of tumblr #momsofinstagram #museum education #recycled art #nature #self improvement #sustainability #upcycling #Youtube

[pagetwo]

New York City: Feb. 14- Feb. 19

Friday, March 10, 2023

From February 14th-19th, I had the opportunity to go on a university class trip to New York City to meet with professionals in the Art History field and to explore the rich art scene of the city. This is the second trip of this sort that I have gone on with my school, but this trip was special because of the emphasis on meeting with art museum professionals- the field which I will be entering after graduation. During the week I was in the city, I visited the New York Public Library, the Morgan Library, MoMA, the MET, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Rubin Museum. We met with so many amazing professionals, including the chief curator of the Egyptian exhibit at the MET and one of the Egyptian artifact conservators who works at the MET as well. 

On my first night in NYC, a couple of classmates and I explored the city in search of Anish Kapoor’s mini-bean under the jenga building. Visiting this newest iteration of Cloud Gate was a great way to start our art history trip- seeing this new piece of history that had recently been installed in the Big Apple. Visiting such an iconic piece of art, regardless of how one feels about Kapoor, was a grand way to kick off the trip!

On the 15th, after visiting some of the photo archives at the NYPL, our class attended a guided tour of the Morgan Library. We got to have such a surreal, humanizing, and unique experience during the tour when the docent pulled out a 5000 year old cylinder seal from ancient Mesopotamia and let us each hold it. My passion for art history was sparked when I first learned about ancient visual culture, so being able to hold this piece of history was a full-circle moment for me and my peers. It brought to life what we often can only view in photos or behind glass. 

At the Morgan Library, we toured the exhibit “She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, ca 3400-2000 BC.” It was all about the women of ancient Mesopotamia and how womanhood was understood during those times. We learned so many beautiful things about women deities who were bringers and takers of life, or wagers and enders of wars. A piece that really stood out to me was the costume for a Mesopotamian queen. The beading was gorgeous, featuring lapis lazuli- indicating the reliable trade the Mesopotamians would have had in what is considered modern-day Afghanistan. I noted that her headdress must have been an inspiration for Queen Amidala’s styling in the Star Wars franchise, calling back to the powerful women of our ancient civilizations. 

After visiting the Morgan Library, we went to the MoMA. This being my second time at the museum in the last 10 months, I was comfortable visiting the pieces I missed the most- one of which being Matisse’s Dance. This painting always stuns me due to the grand scale of it and the use of vast fields of cool toned colors- green and blue. 

On the 16th we spent the entire day at the MET. This was my second time at the MET as well, so I spent a majority of my time catching up where I left off last year- finally entering the wing of the Greek and Roman galleries where the cubiculi and mosaics are housed. The Chroma exhibit throughout the galleries was stunning to put it lightly! Classical sculpture is where my heart lies and finally I was seeing what the people I admire so much were seeing when these sculptures were at their prime. The Boxer sculpture has always been one of my favorites, so seeing it in such surreal detail was overwhelming and unforgettable. The Chroma exhibit had me imagining what my life would be like if I worked in the MET and got to study sculptures and look for remnants of pigment on them. It is groundbreaking research and I have such immense respect and appreciation for the brilliant art historians and scientists who are doing geeks like me this service.

Some things that were stunning and gripped me in tears for an hour were a mosaic of a woman in a wreath, coins depicting Trajan, and the vibrant cubiculi that I did not have a chance to visit last year. These are what it is all about for me. These are what my discipline mean to me! Seeing the mosaic mere inches from my face, as opposed to from around a roped-off corner as I did last year, allowed me to see all of the individual tesserae and imagine how it would have looked inside of a Roman villa. The coins with Trajan on them made me incredibly emotional, as I am somebody who studies Roman emperors. These were undeniable visual evidence that these subjects I devote so much of my studies to were real people! Real people who had real impacts on the world and who I only wish I could have met. The star of the show for me though were the cubiculi. I had been dying to finally enter one ever since I first studied Roman villas, particularly Pompeiian villas. As I stood inside of the cubiculum pictured, I took my time admiring all of the gorgeous frescoes. Frescoes I had only seen in textbooks and on powerpoint slides. There they were, right in front of my face. All the room needed was the proper furniture and I would have been exactly where my heart longs to be.

Lastly, on Friday the 17th, we visited the Brooklyn Museum as a class and later some of us visited the Rubin for a free guided experiential tour and DJ event. At the Brooklyn Museum, we got a tour from one of their museum educators of the Thiery Mugler exhibit. My goal is to be a museum educator, and to make museums enjoyable and understandable for every visitor. Our tour guide did exactly that for us. Part of our tour included ten minutes for us to go around the exhibit with provided paper and pencils, to draw any of the costumes we were drawn to and to think about the material or how the costume must have felt. She provided us with an activity that I definitely would have done if I were in the same position. That activity engaged our intrinsic motivation, allowing us to connect with a piece of our choosing, but it also encouraged us to think critically about the pieces in the exhibit. How would they have felt? Who would wear them? Why am I connecting to it? She showed me exactly how effective and necessary museum educators are in order to engage all visitors and to break down barriers of intimidation in museum spaces. 

The Brooklyn Museum had a lounge area that I connected with during my individual expiration of the museum. Museum fatigue is real and can be a huge barrier to enjoyment for museum-goers. Not only was this room visually stunning, the ottomans were also art and welcomed visitors to be comfortable and relaxed. This is something that I am passionate about as I prepare for my future in museums. I know how important comfort is when people have so much going on in their days and lives. My respect for the Brooklyn Museum only went up that day, as I went down and laid on one of the ottomans. 

At the end of the night, at the Rubin museum, I attended a guided tour of the galleries. The Rubin is a museum of Himalayan art and visual culture. The gallery is meant to be experienced rather than viewed. We explored our senses as we explored the galleries, we meditated, we transformed our energy into something beautiful. The whole design of the museum and tour were a unique take to museums and welcomed visitors into Himalayan Buddhist culture and practice. I think that this is a museum that everybody should visit if they have the opportunity to do so. 

Overall, this trip did a lot to prepare and excite me mentally for my impending future. Soon I will be released into the world, no longer in school, no longer in a classroom. The professionals we met with during our trip provided a lot of insight into the many avenues and journeys one may endeavor to get to where they are going. My journey so far has had so many twists and turns, and it was comforting and affirming to hear their stories. I related to so many of them and I felt assured that at the end of the day, if I continue chasing my dream and my happiness, I will end up exactly where I belong. Being an art historian is so much more than being a student or being an academic. Art can be found anywhere: on the street, under buildings, in libraries, or in museums. Wherever there are people, there is art. Wherever there is art, there are art historians. Not everybody in the museum or art historical world comes from an art history background. The greatest thing I took away from this trip and the stories I heard at these various institutions is that achieving one's goals is all about accepting any and every opportunity for growth, as opposed to making some sort of five or ten-year plan and adhering strictly to it. I came out of the trip knowing that my path to being a museum educator is unclear but that I will get there as long as I continue chasing it.

#art history #museum #photography #mesopotamia #met #metropolitan museum of art #moma #modern art #new york city #nyc #university #student life #appalachian state university #class assignment #digital storytelling #museum education #dreams #goals #the future really isnt that scary #journal

[lapislazulily]

Hey all! Non-binary queer trying to live their dreams with not a lot of money. I’m not looking for much, just enough to pay rent for the next month while I find a job. If you can help, please do!

#fundraiser #gofundme #help needed #queer #nonbinary #lgbtq #charity #seeking help #help a queer out #donate #donations #helpifyoucan #signal boost #museum education #university

[fdrlibrary]

Live with Jeff Urbin:

"Pride of Our Nation" In War and Peace: Roosevelt's Love of Our Veterans

November 8, 2023 at 2PM ET

As Commander in Chief of millions of young Americans during World War II, President Roosevelt understood the debt we owe our military. Join FDR Library Education Specialist Jeffrey Urbin as he examines the tools FDR provided during and after the war to give our troops every chance for success.

#veteran history #wwii #fdr #franklin d. roosevelt #museum event #museum education

[delyth-thomas-art]

Please help the National Museum Of Wales

Please sign the petition!!!!

You don't need to be living in Wales or the uk to sign.

#wales #welsh #museum #history #petition #signal boost #geology #paleontology #palaeoblr #support education #support history

[poemas-letras-y-artes]

Cuando los vientos cambian de dirección, las tormentas se convierten en suave brisa capaces de refrescar y a la misma vez, acrecentar la flama del alma…

Priscila Alcívar

#literature #writers #tumblarians #movies #travel #museums #architecture #culture #education #design #history #health fitness #books libraries #home lifestyle #books and libraries #sociology #photography #student #quoteoftheday #art

[beggars-opera]

Museum pet peeve of the day: asking random trivia questions. Either on a tour on on social media. "Who knows what year was X built?" "What does this contraption do?"

It's fine if you're framing it as a "are you a fan of this thing, test your knowledge with a quiz" (one of my favorites did this today) but so often it's just following the letter of the "be interactive" law without following the spirit.

Either you know the answer, and feel superior, or you don't, and feel like an idiot because you think you should have known.

If you're going to actually engage with your audience, you need to give them the opportunity for actual feedback and discussion, dangit. Ask them their opinion about something. Ask them how they feel about a scenario. Ask them if they have any experiences that mirror what you're talking about. Ask them something that will encourage them to do something besides reciting some factoid they remember from elementary school.

#museums #education #history

[belovedapollo]

Solo museum date ! because it is important to take yourself out on some quality time with yourself 🫧 reblog ok, don’t repost

#my photos #museum photography #german museum #museumlover #museumsoftheworld #museum #museum aesthetic #exhibition #museum exhibit #museum education #nature museum #dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #academia aesthetic #museum life #museum collections #museum visit #museum studies #museum date #museum display #museum day #museum of natural history #museum trip

[saintartemis]

Musings of A Museum Professional.

Today, I was told I have a wonderful voice for talking about history and that I make history really fun.

#excuse me while I walk on cloud 9 #that's probably one of the nicest things someone has ever told me since I entered the field #museums #museum work #museum life #museum professional #museum worker #artemis speaks #GLAM #museum education

[itsjustanne]

Starting in the summer session I will be doing an online masters program in museum studies! I can't wait to get back into it!

#annie talks #mostly to myself #studyblr #history studyblr #art history #studying #history #study motivation #student #history student #graduate student #graduate studies #musuem studies #museum education

[rt8815]

This is a bandolier. Those cylinders are called charges, and historically they would each be filled with enough gunpowder for a single shot.

This is deer hide/leather.

And this is the cap I covered with leather, using hide glue and stitching:

A coworker covered the rest of the charge.

#museum education #living history

[reality-detective]

If you thought Epstein Island was bad? Wait till people find out about this 👆 place.

Investigate the GETTY MUSEUM, a pedophile fortress with more than 12 floors underground. Two million women & children were there till 2018.

There are elevators & practically a city down below with thousands of sex slaves. Only people on the “A LIST” can walk all over this place. The elevators lead to a tunnel system that is guarded with high security. It is a hell created within another hell!

Epstein Island is just the tip of the iceberg.🤔

Welcome to reality!

#pay attention #educate yourselves #educate yourself #reeducate yourself #knowledge is power #reeducate yourselves #think for yourselves #think about it #think for yourself #do your homework #do some research #do your own research #ask yourself questions #question everything #getty museum #save the children #save our children #save the kids #save humanity