#museology

[bunny-ology]

I started off in college as an education major wanting to be a middle school science teacher, but ended up quitting that because of how ableist the major was.

I switched to an agriculture degree because I grew up on a farm, and during 2020 I was constantly at home and convinced myself I could physically do the work, and I completed that degree despite the professors being ableist and morally questionable.

While I was an Ag major, I was working for the geology museum on campus, and decided to get my Masters degree in museum studies. During my studies, I realized how disabled people are constantly left out of deai discussions in the museum field, only ever seen as potential visitors and never potential workers, and so I finished my degree with independent research into how disabled staff are treated.

During my last semester in grad school, I started working as a substitute teacher and realized that my education major professors were wrong; I as a disabled person can totally be a teacher without a problem. My grad school advisor also told me that a lot of myself professionals go back and forth between the school system and museums. So I'm taking the leap to try to become a teacher

I just took my GACE (the Georgia certification test) and passed at a professional level! Once I am hired by a school, I will start taking the remainder of classes that I need to be considered a full fledged teacher

I've literally just made a circle, but the agriculture and museum studies degrees are still a huge help to me as a science educator. Other than space, agriculture perfectly set me up to understand everything required for students to learn and places me in a good spot to introduce an FFA chapter to the school, while my museum studies degree has allowed me to see education from a different perspective than my coworkers in order to more adequately come up with ideas in joint discussions. Additionally, I included disability and deai research in almost everything I did from work to school, and as a disabled person myself, I feel that my understanding of accessibility and empathy for other disabled people has prepared me more for interacting with disabled students in my classes.

Not a single bit of my journey was for naught, and I no longer feel ashamed or regretful towards my agriculture degree. I'm also excited to continue learning and eventually helping others to learn too

[septemberkisses]

i love being a history student so much. like there's nothing more satisfying than studying about the people and the culture of the past, realising that before you someone was there who also probably went thru the same emotions as you. and yes maybe your struggles are not entirely the same as them but if you really think about it, they are not entirely different as well. it's just so beautiful.

[michael-svetbird]

AMAZONOMACHY Sarcophagus From Soli, Northern Cyprus [found in 1557] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soli,_Cyprus Hellenistic period, 2nd half of the 4th c. BC Marble Provenance and additional data: https://www.khm.at/objektdb/detail/50832

KunstHistorisches Museum, Vienna | KHMV ["Ancient Greece and Rome", Saal XI] • Web : https://www.khm.at/en • FB : https://www.facebook.com/KHMWien • IG : @kunsthistorischesmuseumvienna

KHMV | Michael Svetbird phs©msp | 08|23 6300X4200 600 [I.-VII.] The photographed object is collection item of KHMV, photos are subject to copyright. [non commercial use | sorry for the watermarks]

📸 Part of the "SARCOPHAGI:Reliefs" MSP Online Photo-gallery:

👉 D-ART: https://www.deviantart.com/svetbird1234/gallery/69396046/sarcophagi-reliefs

👉 FB | Album: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.843393602695885&type=3

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[des-vanecido]

“Los dioses otorgan un destino al hombre, pero la opción de aceptarlo sigue en manos del hombre”.

—Bersek.

[museoholic]

The Pearls of Aphrodite, Herbert James Draper

[inariedwards]

The International Council of Museums (ICOM) has finally approved the new definition of a museum:

“A museum is a not-for-profit, permanent institution in the service of society that researches, collects, conserves, interprets and exhibits tangible and intangible heritage. Open to the public, accessible and inclusive, museums foster diversity and sustainability. They operate and communicate ethically, professionally and with the participation of communities, offering varied experiences for education, enjoyment, reflection and knowledge sharing.”

[chaotic-historian]

Hey National Museum of Denmark, I fixed ur sign, how about writing how you got all.your First Nations stuff, and also which tribes they're from? Thx

[archivegeo]

1) found someone else's notes in this book, and to my horror the stranger is smarter than both me and the author. 2) For museology critique, I'm writing about asylum-turned-exhibits and was introduced to the term "cripistemology"/"cripepistemology" for "disabled ways of being". ❤️

[highher]

The new museum. Manhattan 🗽

[saintartemis]

Musings Of a Museum Professional.

That feeling when you get when you get to FINALLY change the entry in the database for a painting that’s been misidentified for DECADES.

It’s a good feeling.

[museeeuuuum]

So I feel confident enough now to share that I have found a part-time gig doing ghost and history tours! I'm still shadowing the pros, but I am really enjoying it. I am also taking over their social media because that is apparently a skillset that people want to pay me for now.

I am still looking for a full time gig but I've submitted several applications to galleries and museums around town (because everywhere is hiring right now apparently???) and I am hopeful that something decent comes along.

I have also been approached by the new managers at Point Ellice House and they have offered me my job back, but I have pretty much made up my mind to politely decline the offer. To go back so soon after saying goodbye, there would be a large emotional toll that I don't have the energy to pay right now. After the last several months of uncertainty and anxiety, I think I want to break things off cleanly. If I go back now I feel like I would be stagnating and going backwards. I am thankful to PEH, and I DO hope to return one day, but my heart needs to heal a bit first.

Overall, things are really good though! I am really excited about the possibility of every single job I have applied to and I hope that I will get some offers soon.

Keep your fingers crossed for me!

[tropylium]

really I would go to a Museum Without Artwork, Just Objects. we already have a gaggle of those, the main genre of them are "local museums" focusing on oldtimey rural handwork objects from Upper Lowerham specifically; sometimes they're Museums of Industrial Design; but the same approach would work for our ongoing modern times too, hell, you could still write informative plaques and credit original designers, you just wouldn't have to pretend that this particular instance of a 7A screw or a floppy disk is anything special, that exhibiting it needs asking permission, that any part of the exhibition per se is under copyright, etc. if you're feeling particularly trollsy, include a urinal and insist very expressly and sincerely that it is in fact just a urinal and nothing more

[peptography]

These are my boards I made for NCEA Level 3 Photography last year (I got excellence with scholarship!!!!!).

My theme was Forgotten Objects. Board 1 focuses on the origin of the objects. I took photos in a local op shop and of where/how I store the objects at home). Board 2 focuses on the artistic nature of the objects. I arranged them into gradients, blended macro photos of the objects, and also placed them on monochromatic backgrounds relating to the objects. Board 3 takes a more scientific approach. I created gallery style labels and displayed the objects as if they were part of a museum exhibition. Across the boards the objects get more and more organized.

They are intended to be viewed in order (left to right).

Tumblr doesn't really like the high resolution lol

[michael-svetbird]

HERACLES + WOMAN: Etruscan terracotta janiform Kantharos with the heads of Heracles and a Woman [possibly Athena, Omphale or an Amazon, as IDed by MANF] By the Clusium Group [Etruscan workshop] Ca 300 BC. From Tomb 1029B, the Valle Pega, Chiusi area [near Ferrara], Spina.

Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Ferrara | MANF [1st Fl. Sala XII] • Web : http://www.archeoferrara.beniculturali.it/index.aspx?lng=ENG • FB : https://www.facebook.com/museo.archeologico.ferrara • IG : @museo_archeologico_ferrara • X : @ArcheoFerrara

MANF | Michael Svetbird phs©msp | 21|02|24 6300X4200 600 [I.-III.] The photographed object is collection item of MANF, photos are copyrighted [non commercial use | sorry for the watermarks]

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[antoinejeanne]

[algodondeazucar97]

✨"El Sagrado Corazón, en efecto, es una fuente inagotable, que no desea otra cosa que derramarse en el corazón de los humildes, para que estén libres y dispuestos a gastar la propia vida según su beneplácito". ✝️❤️‍🔥