A ‘typical’ week for a curator

What I love about working in museums is that there’s actually a lot of variety in the work. So, what can a ‘typical’ week as a museum curator look like? Meetings, duh, but let’s skip them. Lots of research as well this week. We get a few research requests every day. Some are easy, some are not so easy, and some we need to use a lot of creativity to get an answer. I also did some fun stuff, of course.

 Back Into the Recording Studio

I read and recorded scripts for more history videos since our last ones have been a big hit. If you’d like to check those out, they are now live on Vimeo:

A replica medieval Irish reliquary was given to my organization’s founder during his visit to his native Ireland in 1947: https://vimeo.com/181851600

The bus at the intersection of sports and racism:  https://vimeo.com/187661719

Autographed Why England Slept by a very young JFK, also given to our founder:  https://vimeo.com/181851601

Poking around the dark corners of our recording studio, I found this gem. If your sound engineer is good enough to have worked at Opryland, they’re good enough for me:

More filming

 

 

The videos have been a big hit among administration, so we’re doing more! Here, one of our staff photographers is getting the goods on a crowd favorite artifact.

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Anything but typical.

These are just a couple things I did this week that wasn’t looking through folders filled with papers and staring at my scanner waiting for it to decide to cooperate. And I wouldn’t trade it for just about anything. 

About the Author: Benjamin L. Clark writes historical mysteries and works as a history museum curator.

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