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Integrating technology into museums should be to enhance the visitor experience rather than replace the human interpreters and loose that valuable human face and connection.
Boston history museum workers out of context
"I don't have a crush on Henry Pelham [1748-1803]!"
"YOU SAID HE WAS A YAOI BOY!"
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
Reinigungskräfte in den Ausstellungsräumen der Nationalgalerie. 1897 https://smb.museum-digital.de/object/245283
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).
Please take the survey titled "Survey on Virtual Exhibits and Virtual Collections". Your feedback is important!
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.
I went to a science museum with two friends today. One of them was really taken with a tour guide wearing a she/her pin, and their partner said to me, "I don't know if you've noticed this, but when we go to museums, we've noticed that they're all full of young queer employees. It's great." That made me think of your blog.
They are! The museum industry seems to be attracting a lot of youger queer people at the moment (although many older queer folks have been here for decades already). I've jokingly called the general Boston museum workforce, "the Rocky Horror History Show."
(Worth noting, though, that a pronoun pin doesn't necessarily mean they're queer. Most of my cishet colleagues also wear pronoun stickers on their nametags, to normalize it more fully.)