How far will this post go

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Just a normal day at work...

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Saw this internship listing and had to share how insane it is

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The audacity. Salary transparency is a must.

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The Hermitage needs to do better than this. I was shocked at this interpretation.

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Somehow, even as I catalog, my backlog never does seems to decrease.

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Meanwhile the collections staff are in the hold, bailing out the water that is unprocessed collections.

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I designed these banners and I’m proud of them. That’s all.

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Is this how we reach younger audiences now?

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Not sure if this belongs here but...

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What the AAM tea?

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Hot take: the electronic compactors are garbage

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Made this meme for my museum studies class, thought it might be appreciated here

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We can mark off Holiday Disaster for me today with a burst water pipe at the museum.

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Agree or disagree?

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My museum has contact to the dead?

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This one hits home. LOL!

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Museum representation in games

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My first exhibit went on display today!

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That moment when you break your Proud Museum Person mug at the job you left the museum industry for and it feels like a metaphor...

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To all the “woke” museums during the protests, actions are louder than hashtags.

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I work on exhibitions...

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The Morgan Museum in NYC with $300 million in assets is eliminating crucial paid positions and is asking for unpaid volunteers to take over. For one position, they require a Ph.D. that can read and write English, French, and German and must agree to a one-year commitment.

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Rat Erotica Tour- call for host institutions

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Conservation 101: If the plate cracks, just staple that shit back together

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Some humor to help in these stressful times.

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Welp... 2 interviews later and references being called, I didn’t get the job. This process was long and left me feeling confused/frustrated. Any tips for keeping up with this process? Does self-care include excess amounts of coffee and naps? 😉 Bonus Content: Meme/page suggestions you all should follow

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MoMA walls

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Going to conferences as a history museum/heritage site feels like...

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Anyone else use their skills to make things around the house ?

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How could this have gotten through committee?

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How do you get people to stop touching stuff?

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I've been dipping into making artwork for my fellow Conservators - I need ideas for the rest of the GLAM sector though!!

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New Museum Exhibit - creating my first museum exhibit for a rural museum, money is tight. I have some tree segments can to accompany is visual signage, not certain how large I should make this, Should keep things black and white or use colour, not certain on what material this should be printed on.

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Need help removing stickers

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Museum jobs 😫

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Tiny Archival Box I Made

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Signage done right

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What is wrong with these idiots?

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Found it funny and prudent to go here

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Resume Review? Where am I going wrong? (Details in the comments)

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How do i make this sand stick?

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Re-energising the Royal Ontario Museum| Hariri Pontarini Architects

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During my coffee breaks at the museum, I like to carve foam 'forgeries' of our holdings. This is Bastet in the Form of a Cat.

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A little game I made for my team on this Memorial Day weekend

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[Question] How to get Casio FS-02s into a museum?

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We're the Railroad Museum of PA, Ask us anything about trains, museum work, restoration, etc. . We'll be live from 9am-1:30pm EST. 4/8/20

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A digital Van Gogh walk-through exhibition

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Feeling nostalgic, so sharing a solander box I retrofitted to transport Japanese netsuke within the museum campus

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Mandatory cross post

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Made nine identical custom boxes in five hours. All foamed out on the inside, too!

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What do the museum conservationists call these particular lights?

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Why aren’t we getting qualified applicants for a State Historic Site Superintendent position?

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I heard y'all like custom artifact housings... I call this one Contents may not shift during flight.

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I had an interview a month ago and yet haven't received a response on a acceptance or rejection. My last contact with the museum was on August 4.

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I'm currently inventorying and packing consecrated deposits from Himalayan Buddhist sculptures. This is a silk-wrapped sutra removed from its original receptacle.

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Carved this from archival evafoam for my cat-loving coworker on his birthday

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For curiosity: if this was in your collection, would you label every tile?

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What is the name of this type of exhibit?

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Whats the story behind the uneven surface this fossil rests on?

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Anyone have experience with this product?

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Only in a museum would you be regularly pranked by a life size cutout of a historical figure.

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Dr. Jack Horner visited our museum today. I nerded out as you can see by my face!

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Anyone else's desk look like a library exploded?

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How can I order (vinyl?) lettering for descriptive labels? I always thought this would be cool for some of my personal collections at home (ie, I don't work at a museum!)

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When and Why?

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Stumbled upon this gem of a catalog record today...

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(Museum technician) Hello, I received this in my email and I'm recently graduated. What does this mean?

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I'm a different kind of MuseumPro: one that loves to stage historical plays amongst collections! [Image from _Play of Adam_ at the Met Cloisters]

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Any budget friendly suggestions for museum display drawers?

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These came in the mail at work today!

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Special method for ensuring an object is never separated from its documentation??!

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A friend painted this for me. What would be the best way to hang it/mount it/display it? I am worried if I just leave it open the birch bark will crack and ruin it.

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9/11 Memorial Museum Subway Advertisement

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[xpost /r/funny] For our planetarium folks....

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I made a collage of my favorite taxidermy museum lions, thought you might enjoy ;)

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The damage in these photos is all in the same place. What is it from?

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Just got a job as an apprentice at the Military Aviation Museum's Fighter Factory in Virginia Beach! (x/post from r/aviationmaintenance)

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Some more research work!-New Kingdom Era

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Anyone got bicycles / tricycles on display or in storage? need help with supports. linked to object in question

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