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What’s the Best Path to a Top Museum Job? We Analyzed the Training of 100 Curators to Find Out
What is the best career preparation that will ultimately result in landing a curatorial job in museums? That’s the question that this article unpacks through a study of 100 curators …
Receiving the Nancy Hanks award (and what the heck is professional development, anyway)
Emily Graslie is Chief Curiosity Correspondent for The Field Museum in Chicago, and the host, creator, and writer for its educational YouTube series, The Brain Scoop @ehmee Around this time …
Leaving the Museum Field
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Leadership, and Why You Need a SWOT Analysis (and a Personal Board of Directors)
Recently, I was poking around on LinkedIn, and found a couple of short posts that caught my attention. One was How to Do a SWOT Analysis on Yourself (and Why You Need One) by speaker, …
Strategizing Me: Making a Personal Career Plan Effective leaders create mission statements to shape their museum careers.
The one thing that can be said universally about people who work in the museum profession is that they’re here by choice. Nobody really twisted anybody’s arm to work among beautiful objects …
Museum Directors on Mentorship and Their Professional Journeys
All museum directors started off as young people trying to find their way. Recently, in a series of interviews conducted for the book Eleven Museums / Eleven Directors: Conversations on Art …
Strategizing Me: Make a Personal Career Plan
This article appeared in the March/April 2017 issue of Museum magazine. Effective leaders create mission statements to shape their museum careers. The one thing that can be said …
A perspective on the educational value of museum internships
One of the things I love most about museums is the way they make history come alive—that’s why I applied to be an intern at the National Museum of American History. I wanted to experience …
Tools for Recruitment and Engagement in Museum Studies
Can you imagine three years after you have earned your degree and in search of the perfect job, you discover that you were the “first” of your race to matriculate through your major? …
So, What Do You Do? Meet some museum professionals with 21st-century jobs.
This article originally appeared in the January/February issue of Museum magazine. Who could have foreseen—just two decades ago—that museums would one day employ game designers, …
Anatomy of a Lunchtime Conversation
Last week we noticed an intriguing Twitter conversation originating from a question Chad Weinard posed to the Twitterverse. The resulting conversation meanders in several directions …
Your Roving Reporter: An interview with Jim Croft: Executive Vice President of The Field Museum
CEO Betty Brewer asked Jim Croft to think about changes he has seen over his 30+ years at The Field Museum as he prepared to leave the museum and move full time into the work of academia. …