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arthandlin:

When someone compliments the curator of an exhibition on how great it looks and you’re in the background like:

Another submission from rubbercityrebel.

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I squealed when I found this!!! Us Museum studies majors/minors need some meme love!!! We only have a small museum studies minor program here, but I’m sooo ready to take it on in grad school!!! Loving this page sooo much!! Can’t wait to see more! 

dibbly:

Sneaking photos during install.  One of my favorite shots, from the International in 2008.  Wolfgang Tillmans.  

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• Question: I literally screamed when I saw that this existed. Sadly, the university I attend doesn't have a museum studies major, but I was the curator's intern at my local museum for 3 years, and now I'm a tour guide at a historic home on campus. After a month of working there, I can safely say that I would much rather handle the collection than dealing with other tour guides who could care less about the objects and only about the people who lived there. - dickpowells
• Answer:

  There are many good museum studies programs out there. Several university’s even have online programs. I love working with collections, but remember the tour guides and exhibits are the public face of a museum and that supports the care of the collections ♥ One thing I love about museums is the variety of work do be done in them!

Jumping on the “What I Do” meme bandwagon. Here’s one for all the exhibit designer’s out there.

Ah I know this well…..

lostinhistory:

museumuse:

shuraiya:

THAT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM

sometimes i climb inside exhibit cases and clean them 

i was actually shut inside of this one for a good fifteen minutes

the absurdity of my life choices astounds me 

I have very excellent memories of laying down inside of a case to clean the top (these were large plexiglass cases that rested on a base), and having to crack the windows in the barn we were cleaning them in because the fumes were terrible and we were starting to get a bit wobbly. 

Behold, the museum worker in their natural habitat

So silly!

nom-chompsky:

its everything ive ever wanted and more

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youlikeairplanestoo:

Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-135) makes a beautiful landing at Kennedy Space Center. Bravo to all of the men and women who’ve helped make the shuttle program shine over the last 30 years. It was truly an inspiration to me as well as countless others. To infinity, and beyond!

Space shuttle Atlantis (STS-135) touches down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF), completing its 13-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS) and the final flight of the Space Shuttle Program, early Thursday morning, July 21, 2011, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Overall, Atlantis spent 307 days in space and traveled nearly 126 million miles during its 33 flights. Atlantis, the fourth orbiter built, launched on its first mission on Oct. 3, 1985.
Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Full version here.

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foulowl:

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“Our friend Jeff Yang curated MARVELS AND MONSTERS: Unmasking Asian Images in U.S. Comics, 1942 – 1986 – The William F. Wu Collection at The NYU Fales Library & Special Collections. Wu’s collection “is perhaps the world’s only, and certainly the largest, collection of comic books featuring images of Asians and Asian Americans.” The exhibition is open until August 19, 2011. Read Jeff’s thoughts about working on the exhibition on his blog. [NYU]”

UGH I WISH I COULD GET TO NEW YORK IN THIS TIME SPAN. CURSES. I will just have to ask my sister to go for both of us. 

Edited to add: An excerpt from the curator’s blog:

“The show spans four of the most turbulent and critical decades in American history — particularly in relation to Asian Americans, as we were at war with Asians through much of that period, and the vast bulk of Asian immigrants arrived in the U.S. right in the middle of it.

As a result, the works found in the collection aren’t just an amazing treasure trove for comic fans of all backgrounds, they’re a unique narrative of the evolution of the Asian image in American popular culture. 

I themed the collection around a set of eight Asian archetypes — the ones that remain most iconic and resonant with perceptions of Asian Americans even today. (No, Tiger Mom isn’t in it — the collection ends in 1986.) The archetypes are obviously negative ones, given the timespan of the archive. But their repeated appearances in the comics ends up being an amazing launchpad from which to explore the historical pressures and precedents that led to their inception.”

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