#museum work

[saintartemis]

Someday I'm going to write a book about working in museums and have an entire chapter dedicated to the weird things people have said to or have asked me. On second thought maybe I’ll make that the whole book.

#visitors say the darnedest things #I have a rather extensive list #museums #museum humor #museum life #museum work #museum worker #museum professional #artemis speaks

[marzipanandminutiae]

me when the motion sensor light in the museum bathroom turns off while I'm on the toilet: dark academia

#museums #museum worker #museum work #(I will broadly count GLAM- galleries libraries archives museums -as academia for aesthetic purposes)

[museeeuuuum]

It is the one year anniversary of this video! When I made this, I was on the brink of losing my museum job and I was feeling extremely disheartened and alone. I interviewed multiple museum professionals from Finland, Canada, England, and the US, asking them about their workload and wages.

(Pause for dramatic click bait) You won't BELIEVE what I found!!1!!!

#history #museum #museum work #archives #libraries #Youtube

[idohistorysometimes]

Heh, museum work.

#history #museum #history museum #living history #museam #museum work #historical interpreter #historian #historical reenactment #living history museum #living history meme #meme #museum professional #simon petrikov #the winter king #fiona and cake #academia

[markscherz]

Hej Mark! Jeg har et spørgsmål om museumsverdenen, som du måske kan svare på.

Din PhD er jo meget relevant for din stilling på museet. Jeg er i gang med en PhD der ikke passer ind på noget som helst museum, men jeg vil rigtig gerne arbejde i museumsverdenen efter.

Hvad er dit indtryk af din branche? Er en PhD adgangsgivende eller er det så konkurrencepræget, at ens emne også skal ligge lige til højrebenet for at man kan få en stilling? Hvad kan man gøre undervejs for at blive mere attraktiv for museerne?

Tak for din tid!

Hey @arthurconan. I'll have to answer you in English because my Danish is fine for reading but shit for writing or speaking.

Ultimately, yes, a PhD can be a major help in getting into the museum world, especially the academic side of things. It can be ENORMOUSLY competitive, and it is hard to change directions into, if you are interested in research at museums. however, on the more public-facing side of museum work, I have many colleagues who have swapped directions completely, and have very different backgrounds, but have been able to adapt beautifully to the work at the museum. The fact that they have jobs would indicate that this is not such a huge barrier. It will depend on what you want.

The #1 comment I hear in hiring discussions and the like, is that the museums want to see that candidates have museum experience in order to consider them for museum jobs. How do you get that experience when you are not able to get a job at the museum without it? The only solution I know of is to volunteer at the museum. The Natural History Museum of Denmark, where I work, has loads of volunteers who help out with whatever free time they can spare. This is a good line for the CV. But these volunteers are mostly relatively young students, and it is obviously very hard for older individuals to get into that/make time for it. Having to offer your labour for free should not be the answer, but unfortunately, it very often is. And when the market is as competitive as it often is, having an experience line like this could be worth the time. But that is very hard to say. You might be able to get it another way.

#museum #museum work #answers by Mark #arthurconan

[art-thropologist]

As you all know, I work at a museum and often have to address guests with a stern, sharp, elementary school teacher reprimand of “Sir!” or “Ma’am!” before advising them when they climb on platforms or touch the art. But I don’t want to misgender any NB guests. Saying “You!” is too broad and doesn’t get the same response. I am asking for suggestions in preparation for the upcoming event this weekend.

Mind, single syllable words are most effective.

#museum work #museums #museum #asks #nonbinary #questions

[tinyzoologist]

I am once again catching myself getting sentimental about species descriptions... The sheer care and dedication of looking at a tiny little animal long and hard enough to observe every hair, every color facet, every ridge and bump on its body. The act of putting these miniscule details into obscure Latin words, like incantations for others to imagine and compare. The naming of a species - hello, little creature, we see you. You are special to us, here is what we will call you, we even printed a brand new label.

#entomology #taxonomy #museum work #do you cry about bugs or are you normal? #maybe it's pms maybe i just wanna be studied like a type specimen

[pagansphinx]

Gustave Courbet (French) • The Artist’s Studio: Real Allegory Summing Up Seven Years of My Artistic Life • 1855 • Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Detail

Detail

"It’s the whole world coming to me to be painted. On the right, all the shareholders, by that I mean friends, fellow workers, art lovers. On the left is the other world of everyday life, the masses, wretchedness, poverty, wealth, the exploited and the exploiters, people who make a living from death…” – Gustave Courbet

Detail

In 1855, Courbet’s monumental canvas, The Painter’s Studio: A Real Allegory Summing Up Seven Years of My Artistic Life (Musée d’Orsay), was rejected by the jury of the Exposition Universelle. Courbet retaliated by mounting his own exhibition in his Pavilion of Realism, built within sight of the official venue, where he displayed, among more than forty other works, The Painter’s Studio. The meaning of Courbet’s unfinished painting remains enigmatic: the figures on the left suggest the various social types that appear in his canvases, while on the right he portrays his friends and supporters. The artist painted himself at the center of this universe, paradoxically painting a landscape within the confines of his studio. The accompanying exhibition catalogue included Courbet’s seminal “Realist Manifesto,” in which he proclaimed his fidelity to subjects drawn from modern life. – Metropolitan Museum of Art

#art #painting #fine art #art history #gustave courbet #french artist #painter #artwork #artist quotation #realism #social realism #oil painting #19th century french art #allegorical painting #art appreciation #museum aesthetic #museum work #musée d’orsay

[conservethis]

#conservation #conservators #internship #conservator #archives #preservation #museums #museum work #Instagram

[acrossthewavesoftime]

I don't know why, but for some reason, museum personnel always like to approach me. They're always elderly, and always with the security firms hired by the properties to make sure visitors behave themselves.

And no, I'm not talking about the "please don't touch that!"-kind of interactions. Some of the best, and most informative tours I was privileged to attend thanks to chance encounters with well-informed museum guards (again, I would like to stress this: they are not employed as education/outreach personnel) who decided I look like I would like to hear more about the history and anecdotes related to their workplace, be it news on recent research done on the premises, an amusing story about the former inhabitants, or them reminiscing about knowing the building from their childhood, and recounting the changes since then.

My favourite encounter so far happened at the former residence of a formerly ruling family, now converted to a local history museum. Upon entering the next room, I, being the only one there, gave a nod and smile to a friendly-looking museum guard of a most grandmotherly appearance. Pleased with my interest in the room she was tasked to watch, she approached me, smiling wistfully: "you know, when The Boys were little...", then proceeded to tell me about their mother, and the plays they used to put on in the purpose-built theatre room.

The Boys were a set of three brothers born to the family in the 1830s.

I have a hard time deciding whether The Boys are haunting the premises and have taken a liking to this one museum guard, or if the museum guard herself is the ghost of a former nanny to The Boys who just couldn't let go of her former wards and thus has defied death to continuously watch over their, and to some extent, her, former home...

#history #history humour #museums #museum work #history museum #r rambles

[saintartemis]

Musings of A Museum Professional

I need everyone to repeat after me: "The people of the past were just as intelligent as people are today. Just because they didn't have our modern technology doesn't mean they weren't capable of building or making incredible things. "

#I had an interaction with a visitor #never had somebody question how skyscrapers were built before the 1930s that's new #my dude they just did math the old fashion way-by hand #museum work #museums #museum life #museum professional #artemis speaks

[marzipanandminutiae]

every museum employee handbook: do NOT risk your life to save the objects! ever!

me, lighting candles at a shrine to Rose Valland: [read 11:45 AM]

#museum work #museum worker #I hope to never be put in that position but. I also hope I could be that brave #(we're all like this; that's why it's in the handbooks) #also we stan a nazi-defying lesbian museum queen #rose valland

[thohako]

February 1, 2024

The first working day at the museum 🏛️

This is the best job for me, I like it, I am looking forward to when I can lead tours around the museum’s location I only learn a tour and drink coffee these days

#museum #museum work #museum studies #history #museum workers #my work #studyblr #study blog #study aesthetic #work aesthetic #jobs #russian aesthetic #aesthetic #Russian museum

[idohistorysometimes]

Behind every great museum is a disheveled historian who can't sustain a normal conversation for more than 5 minutes eating pizza at their computer desk at 2 in the morning blasting Nightcore remixes in their headphones because they have too many projects and all of them are nearing their deadline for completion

#history #museum #history museum #museam #living history #museum work #historical interpreter #historian #historical reenactment #living history museum #museum professional

[phoenixdown-and-fairydust]

Perhaps I mock Edgeworth's look too much, as if I am not sat here in an early 1800 kitchen in a high collared blouse with a fitted linen vest, wearing a crevat with a 200 year old broach and knee high leather boots while I drink tea out of a recreation cup. I will argue, however, that I have the better hair.

#miles edgeworth #ace attorney #historical clothing #museum work

[mossynerd]

I work at a science museum. Today I overheard a conversation from our Outreach team who do activities at like fairs and festivals and stuff....and apparently when they have interactive stuff out, if adults are on their own they seem nervous to actually touch and play with the things so they don't....but if they're with kids and the *kids* are nervous, the adults will engage and be like "here, let me show you it's okay to use this". Which, I'm glad they do but also - guys, you can touch the things! It's okay! You don't need to have kids to have permission!

/grabbing the nearest adult and shaking them by the shoulders/ YOU ARE ALLOWED TO PLAY! YOU HAVE TO UNEARTH YOUR SENSE OF CURIOSITY AND WONDER! YOU'RE NOT GOING TO DO IT WRONG!

#museum work