Other things that have gotten me suddenly excited and back here blogging (other than International Museum Day 2010) is that this coming weekend i'll be heading to Ottawa, Canada's capital!
Yes, you say.. very well.. And why is that exciting?
Because Ottawa has a whole bunch of museums! National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Museum of Civilisation, Canadian War Museum, and the soon to be reopened (this weekend!) Canadian Museum of Nature! There's also historic buildings and all that jazz, too. I'm hoping that my renewed vigor for the blog, plus visiting some new museums, will help with content here. I'm also heading back to London to visit in a couple of weeks, so depending on what museums I get time to visit then, i'll have a UK report too. Exciting, no?
I do want to keep up with the more "thinky-thoughts" blogs like the deaccessioning one though so i'll be keeping my eyes peeled for ideas there. And if the handful of you out there reading have anything to input, it'd be great!
I'm finding it increasingly hard to keep positive and keep my mind "in the game" museums-wise seeing as it's been well over a year since I last worked in anything remotely resembling a museum job, too! I am hoping this will keep me focused and interested.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
On blogging and keeping enthusiastic about museums
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Welcome back! Or just welcome.
Now that i've dragged over a bunch of old blog entries from my old site, I figured I should make a real update about this particular site. I'm trying to keep my mind in the museum world, as well as trying to get myself further along with my career in said world. I'm currently living in London on a temporary visa that's really only allowed me to temp in admin/front of house positions, albeit in museums - but i've not gotten the career development and experience I thought I might get here. But I think about museums as a visitor and 'academically' a lot of the time.
So welcome to the space where i'll be doing that, and hopefully talking a little bit about working in museums in whatever aspect it might be! I'll be heading to Canada sometime before the middle of next year, and eventually home to Australia so we'll see what fodder that can provide for museum-based blogging, too!
If anyone's out there, feel free to say hi and discuss!