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However that post reminded me that we could have a museum people reblog game:

What are the most frequently asked questions in your museum?

Mine are "is this the church?" (no you gotta go up the hill) and "why is the bed so short?" (they closed it for the daytime, it can be opened to full length for sleeping in).

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Admission to graduate conservation training programs is very competitive. Often, schools will want applicants to have several hours of experience in both intuitional and private conservation studios. Here at the Brooklyn Museum, we have a long history of accepting pre-program interns. Some go on to become conservators, while others come to realize a related museum profession is more suited to their interests. Whatever the future holds for our interns, we hope that the experience of interning in our lab will foster a deeper appreciation for artwork they encounter throughout their lives.

While in the lab, pre-program interns assist with the less glamorous responsibilities of conservators, such as integrated pest management, in addition to hands-on treatment. Here, two of our pre-program interns, Aashna Kapoor and Natasha Kung, are assisting in the consolidation and cleaning of a section of a ceiling from the Narinjistan Mansion, which will eventually be displayed in our renovated Middle East art gallery.

Posted by Tina March

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Here’s the link for the survey for my thesis data collection. Re-posting it since I really could use more responses. The survey is for museum professionals.

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We had our regional museum days yesterday and today. I hate having to be away from home overnight so I hated it, but there were also good parts, mainly meeting and hanging out with colleagues from other museums. Our region is vast, distances are huge, so we pretty much never see each other, so these sorts of events are important. Even though I hate them a lot.

And there was a point made:

If you think of culture, cultural products and institutions from the 1970s onwards for example and compare to today, how have things changed? Music - radio, albums, cassettes, CDs, MTV... And now you can have a playlist that mixes and matches from everything ever (or even have an algorithm make the playlist for you). Books have jumped to ebooks, movies and tv are on-demand.

But museum content is still exhibitions. We don't yet work in that "people can curate their own experience" -kind of way. Maybe a little bit on services like Finna.fi or Europeana, but not at large scales and not well.

And we were also thinking about what is the actual content - what is the music - that museums have? Is it museum objects? Because at least us museum professionals keep going on about the context and the stories attached to the museum objects. Like I will not take an old photograph into the collection if I have no idea who or what or when is being depicted in it. Oldness doth not a museum object make. So I'd argue that the informational content is the actual content that museums have, and the objects are the vessels that carry the message, much like vinyl is the material that used to carry the music.

So what if museums could come up with a system (I hate to use Spotify as an example because that company participates in the genocide of Palestinians, but I am thinking of a thing like Spotify for museum stuff) where we put our "music" to be available for anyone anywhere, and then people themselves or an algorithm or AI or whatever could compile "playlists" of those things tailored to specific interests. So like all the content tagged as "archaeology" and "iron age" could be grouped together from across different museums and whoever wants the Iron Age Archaeology -playlist could access that. Etc.

And like I don't know what format it could take. It would probably need to be in language (written? spoken?) because I don't believe museum objects can communicate their meaning without interpretation (you need to be told what it is you see when you look at a museum object), but language needs to be translated, or it will limit which people can/will use it (like we as a museum will not make Finnish-only content because our Swedish speaking friends will get mad as hell). I personally could see it be short videos, even ones where it's just someone talking to the camera, because I know I watch short videos of people talking to the camera all the time, on Tumblr, on Instagram, whatever.

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The Association of Art Museum Directors is an organization of art museum directors from the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

"AAMD has completed its 2023 Salary Survey, which includes responses from 195 museums in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and covers more than 50 different staff positions, from the director’s office to leadership and support positions in curatorial, education, advancement, communications, and security departments.

The 2023 Salary Survey also contains benchmarks on intern compensation, a new addition to the 2023 Salary Survey."