#museum worker

[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)

[art-thropologist]

8/4/24

You bet your ass we got to close galleries. We even got our own private balcony

#gradblr #an autobiography #eclipse #museums #museum #museum work #museum worker

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

{{ I don't know much of anything about museology. What makes it different from other -ologies? What challenges come with it? What's your favorite part?

Classifying it as an "-ology" is arguably a little bit pretentious; it's the series of conceptual and professional standards that go with working in museums. The challenges are, in my experience and to be very very blunt, mostly financial and secondarily the fact that other people in the field all have their own very particular ideas of What The Museumgoing Public Wants. My favorite part is that it's a field full of incredibly passionate, precise thinkers who mostly hold themselves to very high intellectual standards and are proud to be doing something culturally important with their careers.

Ask me questions to distract me from fandom drama

#museum worker #monstrousgourmandizingcats' working grind #give me love give me memes #beyondthetemples

[idleblatherings]

Matted a Renoir etching at work today. How fucking crazy is that?

#museum worker #I love my job #me

[newmeyet]

ok HEAR ME OUT! today I had an exam of my conservation lab. we had to do an conservation sheet, where we filled in with the intrinsic information of the piece (authorship, title, dimensions) and describe the state of conservation, good/regular/bad, talk about the damage, where they were located, how it should be packaged and with adequate climate and humidity conditions depending on the material of the object. BUT THE POINT is, we didn’t know what kind of object we going to get, what material is it made for, because our professor made a objects raffle. CAN U GUESS wich number I got????? *cleans throat*

13. YES U GOT ME RIGHT.

13!!!!!!!!!

AND GUESS WHAT object I also got bc of this number................ a piece of clothing such as a leather belt covered in metal straps from a famous fashion designer in my state. AND!!!!!! it was the same material as a piece that I got a few days earlier :)))

yes mommy swift gave me luck ❤️😅

#taylor swift #13 #museum life #museums studys #museum work #museums #museum worker

[oodlenoodleroodle]

It's my day off and I'm working my ass off.

So for the exhibition that opens on the 31st I cut out all the "shadows" from felt - which was a lot of work and made my back hurt alot. But also gave me the idea that felt silhouettes could work for the project in December too.

I still need to prepare more boxes and jars (majority of the jars of this round I made yesterday already). The translations had come so I need to layout the text ready for printing. I need to send the posters to the printers and send in my receipts to the association to get my refunds. We have a meeting tomorrow so I could clear all that stuff with the board.

We also carried more dirt upstairs and I planted the carrots and radishes today. We have one more full bag of dirt and an open one, and I still have spinach seeds from before and turnip seeds I bought on Saturday from the farming museum. The full bag is planned for the spinach and the open bag is meant to top up the potatoes when they start to come up. So I don't quite know what to do about the turnip situation. Have to think about that a little more. Or might have to save them for next year.

We also sprayed WD-40 on the ventilation window frames in the living room and the bedroom as well as the windows on the balcony to deter wasps. It seems to be working, but no idea how long or do we need to like top it up and how often.

#visual artist #contemporary artist #museum worker #and apparently some kind of balcony farmer #an all around adult

[zsphoenix]

I'm rewriting my CV for a position and.... holy shit. I did everything I set out to do. My path is impressive. And it's not arrogance. It's just... even of I never work in the art field again... I'm proud of what I achieved.

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In case you're interested in the museum field and collections management specifically, here's the kind of courses I took:

BA in Art

Online Course in Preventive Conservation

Workshop in Art Conservation (Introduction to the field)

Specialisation in Art Conservation

MA in Art History and Conservation

Online Course in Art Handling, Transport and Storage

And So!!! Many!!! Internships!!! To get that experience.

The only thing I would change is to have been paid during my internships. I loved everything.

I'm currently searching for jobs and studying a second degree in Information Technology at the same time.

If I get a job in the museum field, I'll do 2 courses in the next 2 years:

Art Registration

Law and Collections Management (IAL).

If I get a stable job, I also intend to do a PhD, but that's me being an overachiever, for the job I want, there's no need for one.

#museum studies #morg's awkward personal #museum worker

[thatlittleegyptologist]

Got to love it when I get tags that start with “I’m not an archaeologist, but…” because I know I’m about to get a very online misunderstanding of archaeology from a very western perspective.

Today’s (paraphrased) offering is: “Tutankhamun should be left to rest in his tomb, looking at you British Museum. In fact we shouldn’t move the dead from their tombs because it's SACRILEGIOUS”

Tutankhamun is very much in his tomb. It has nothing to do with, nor ever has, the British Museum. If you guys are going to get involved in certain topics it’d really help you to know what's what before deciding on a course of 'action' or even yelling about it on the internet. Otherwise, you're tilting at the wrong windmills. Trust me, there are numerous other windmills than just the BM to tilt at *cough*themetthelouvretheneuesmuseumandthousandsmore*cough*.

The Egyptians don't need their tombs to have an afterlife either. There's a lot of romanticising and overstating that goes on when talking about Egyptian tombs and burial practices, so I understand where the confusion comes from. The most important thing was to receive offerings from, and have their name spoken by, people who passed by their burial. Without either of those their afterlife ceases to exist. Therefore, as per the rules of the Egyptian afterlife, most mummies lost 'access' to the afterlife millennia ago without anyone removing them from their tombs. If anything, having their names spoken by visitors to a museum, and images or actual offerings being displayed, fulfils this requirement more than leaving them where they were. Western sensibilities towards death, and death displays, have got very...hand wringing-y...over the last few years? The way people talk about museum displays and museum workers, you'd think we were doing puppet shows with the dead where there was a big neon sign saying 'come laugh at the gross dead people' instead of thoughtful and respectful displays. Museum workers care a great deal about the dead on display. We know they're people, and we treat them as such, but we also recognise that they're dead and have been so for thousands of years.

But going back to the original point, Tutankhamun *is* in his tomb. He's one of the very few where it's actually safe to have him still in his tomb, though it is constantly monitored and may not stay this way. You see, mummies not being in their tombs is a mixture of a variety of things:

It can be unsafe for mummies to be in their tomb due to environment. After the Aswan Dam was built, it caused the water table to rise, and with it a lot of salt came with it. This is actively damaging many tombs and temples, though they are trying ways to mitigate it. If you put, and I'm going to do this in museum terms, organic material in a hot and damp environment you're going to get mould very quickly. It'd be really bad to have the mummy survive 3000 years only to be destroyed by damp. So a museum where the environment can be kept stable and monitored is ideal.

The tomb may not be suitable to have the mummy in anymore. Many Egyptian tombs are subterranean, so over the centuries they have been subject to collapse. The tomb of Ramesses II is caving in on itself. There's literally bolts and netting holding the ceiling up. Absolutely not safe to put Ramesses II back in his tomb. You leave him in there with a ceiling like that, and then it collapses? Congrats, now you've lost two priceless treasures instead of one.

The mummy may not have been found in their original tomb, nor might we know where the original tombs are. The Ancient Egyptians had this wonderful habit of moving the dead if they were in inconvenient spots, or they were robbing the tomb. Almost all royal mummies weren't even found in their tombs. They were found in a cache (TT320/DB320) at Deir el Bahri, which literally consisted of a cave where they unceremoniously dumped various kings to save them from robbers. Most of these kings were not in their correct coffins, and even the coffins they were in were mismatched from 2 or more different kings. In all, funerary equipment for 50 different kings and queens, and 11 mummies, were found in the cache. This includes the mummies of Ramesses II and Seti I. In the museum in Cairo, they've been returned to their coffins if they had them, and put on display. It is not safe for them in the cache nor in their original tombs, so the best place for them is in a museum.

Space is another concern. Not all these tombs are particularly large, so having a coffin display and visitors in the same space risks both the tomb and the mummy. It is often not safe to do so and thus it isn't done.

Security. Seriously, if every mummy is in their own tomb you would have to have such intense security to stop people from going in there and robbing the place. It's one of the reasons you often hear about 'discoveries' made, but academics knew about it 6 months to a year ago. Not telling the public immediately allows artefacts to be moved and studied without the threat of looting (which does still happen). If you've got all the mummies in their tombs and publicly advertise that, then oh boy are people going to attempt to take them. The area of burials is too large to be covered securely for something such as that.

So, yeah. This got away from me a bit, but the 'put everything back and don't look at it because it's rude and disrespectful' narrative is beginning to drive me a little bit up the wall.

#tbh I'm sick of museum workers getting maligned because people don't understand what they're talking about #or being used as a punching bag for an adjacent topic because people will blame them and not the systemic issue at the core

[saintartemis]

I don’t know what it is about being in a house museum or if this just a problem we have at my museum in particular, but having visitors constantly asking us what the value of our collections or which object in particular are the most valuable gets really annoying. I DON’T KNOW and I DON’T CARE to know.

Like why not ask about the history of the object, the little details, it’s intended use, vs how this one person used it completely differently. How silly it looks, if you think it's ugly, or if it would make a good murder weapon!

Literally anything else other that the supposed monetary value of said object.

#how to piss me off in five seconds or less #like why would I know that? #and I do tell them I don’t know #museums #museum life #museum worker #museum professional #artemis speaks #artemis rants

[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

[art-thropologist]

1/3/24

Let me explain a thing. Listen. We have an interactive modeled on Dalis lobster phone in the new LUME exhibit. There are three lobster phones with cords that someone is gunna break. They are going to steal the lobster phone. Not this week but they will one day because people are as crazy as Dalí for making the damn lobster phone.

The original lobster phone:

#gradblr #an autobiography #art museum #museum worker

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

Museology question! If you were in exhibition development, what exhibitions would you put on for a) a natural history museum, b) a social history museum, and/or c) an art gallery?

I'm so much of a particularist that I really don't know how to answer this question! Right now I'm big on using exhibitions as a way to cycle through and take stock of a preexisting collection, so it would be something along those lines, and thus even more particular to the specific museum. Whatever is stored away that's interesting and that the public hasn't gotten to see in a while.

Ask me questions to distract me from fandom drama

#museum worker #monstrousgourmandizingcats' working grind #give me love give me memes #ryttu3k

[idleblatherings]

Today I framed some Polaroids of Jean-Micheal Basquiat’s parents and sister that were taken by Any Warhol. They’re going to Paris for a show at the Louis Vuitton Foundation next year.

#me #museum worker #work fun

[babyjackdaniels]

#fox writes imagines #honestly thought most ppl would be more into Marc and I’d be lonesome in my interest with Steven’s character #but y’all also in love with him huh #marvel #moon knight #steven grant #steven grant x reader #steven grant x museum worker!reader #steven grant x coworker!reader #marvel imagine #moon knight imagine #steven grant x reader imagine #steven grant imagine #steven grant x museum worker!reader imagine #steven grant x coworker!reader imagine

[oncanvas]

Joe Hill, Carlos A. Cortéz, 1979

Linocut on paper 35 x 23 ¼ in. (88.9 x 59 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA

#art #carlos a cortez #1970s #20th century #linocut #print #joe hill #smithsonian american art museum #american #chicano art #artists of color #political art #labor rights #industrial workers of the world #labor unions #portrait