As you read in my last post I traveled to New Orleans for the annual AAM conference. Fortunately, my husband and I were able to enjoy a couple days of exploring just before the conference started. During this time, we visited several museums. A couple of which we had visited the last time we had…
Tag: History
Confronting Our Past and Museum Neutrality
An article was recently published about the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration. The Legacy Museum opened this past month in Montgomery, Alabama standing on the site where enslaved people had been warehoused prior to going to market to be sold. The museum confronts the ugly history of slavery in the United States using…
Volunteer Work in Museums…. A Necessary Evil
Wednesdays are the days I volunteer as a collections assistant at the Coronado Historical Association. Most of the work I do involves cataloging newly accessioned objects, archival collections, and books for the museum’s library. My first couple hours there was spent fixing some catalog records to ensure that they thoroughly describe the object. Ensuring the…
Ramblings of A Museum Professional 