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Author Tara Young wanted to pursue this museum job since she was a high school student.
What is Curator?
Travel is more limited to these staff who work directly with exhibitions and programs.
What are curators, exhibition designers, registrars/collection managers?
A museum position that has a shifted work week in order to interact with Saturday visitors.
What is an educator?
In 20 years, the position that Alli, Scarlett, and Adrienne would like to be in.
What is director/senior staff of large institutions?
The museum path author Tara Young moved to after her first path was not a good fit.
What is Museum Education?
Additional staff who may experience travel in their scope of work.
What are store managers and educators?
Many museum professionals whose careers progressed relatively quickly upon the linear path did this.
What is move from state to state several times in their careers?
Best part of being an intern.
What is being given real responsibilities; getting to interact with the collections; extremely rich learning experiences?
Activities that museum employees can attend for free or discounted rate that provide educational enrichment.
What are museum programs – lectures, films, workshops, concerts?
The key value that allows people to forge their own paths in the museum field.
What is creativity?
One reason why prospective museum employees need to think about the financial implications of a career in museums, not just the first job.
What is living with roommates vs a partner; having a family; living a spartan existence due to low starting salaries?
A personal benefit to changing the museum field.
What is equal wages between men and women; less fear of pushing the envelope; acceptance of change?
Caveats of networking.
What are networking to advance one’s career is a bonus and must be willing to pay the generosity forward?
The field in which Tara Young earned her Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree.
What is art history?
This work schedule approach works in theory but if not balanced can cause resentment and burnout for the employee.
What is comp time?
Purpose of NEMA YEPs.
What is host workshops, post articles that effect the field, take tours of cool places, a group to hang out with after work, chatting with people your own age, bonding?
The purpose for the American Alliance of Museums and its regional affiliates to have reciprocal admission agreements for members.
What is free/low cost visits to other museums to stay up to date on what’s happening in the field?
Definition of museum existence.
What is to make a positive impact on their communities by serving primarily as educational institutions?
Coming under scrutiny as being unethical and antithetical to the field’s stated goals of inclusion.
What is unpaid internships?
Advice from Alli, Scarlett, or Adrienne.
What is apply for the job even if your experience doesn’t quite fit it to a T; don’t limit yourself to work in your dream museum; you can get more experience from small historic house museums than larger institutions?