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Labor of Love: Revaluing Museum Work

By Emma Boast and Maddie Mott

This post was originally published on Medium, December 20, 2017. Over the last few years, museum workers have been increasingly vocal about job dissatisfaction. At the 2015 American Alliance of Museums (AAM) annual conference, several …

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