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I laminate constantly— every chance I get. And that’s why working at a museum is better than 89% of jobs

Before I started working at Roebling Museum, never in a million years did I think I would care this much about wire rope

Yes— that’s how it begins! Wait until you find out that the wire rope for the Golden Gate Bridge was made in a weird little company town owned/operated by the Roebling family

I’m excited for the coffee break ☕️

Ghosts is the best show on network tv

Miss CIO from a steel mill company town

Remember starter packs?

That sounds spot on to me! I gave up scouring every clothing website and now I’ve been going to thrift stores to recapture the knee length a-line dresses of my dreams 👗 I also noticed that now I have to search “mini dress” for knee length. This has to be gender backlash!

You’d like the suffrage postcard and valentine collection at Penn state. Some stuff is digitized and available on their site libraries.psu.edu/about/collec...

Go to this. It’s free. And I’m going to be there.

I completely agree. And I think about it all the time. Why can’t I have a kneeish length dress that I can wear to work? Extra points for natural fibers

I’ve got to get some of this for Roebling Museum! Where do I need to go to get it? Kentucky?

4 out of 5 historians agree that he was a Wawa man

No, no, no—we have the Thomas Paine memorial parking lot in Philly. Not quite as impressive as a chipotle but slightly more historically accurate

You should register for this free event on Tuesday July 22 at 3pm! The series is a great excuse for museum people to get together and share ideas about different topics— this month is all about gift shops.

Our best seller is the Slinky but I want to know what works at your site 🎁

things i love:

people
thinking
creating
researching
sharing things with people
learning from other people
trying to be kinder
being increasingly human

Colonial revival wall paper with George Washington stuff on it. Located at a historic house museum in NY.

I assume you like to see stuff like this @johngmarks.com

State and local funding opportunities (except not humanities councils 😥). Not many of them in my neck of the woods support independent scholars, just orgs.

A table piled with old stuff from a basement in a former company town. A woman’s hand holding an iPhone with a photo of a baby

Museum update: Not only did a woman donate Old Stuff (that we really want) from her family, but she also showed me photos of her new grandson. That means it’s working. I’m proud of this photo and I hope it shows up in my annual review at work.

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

White cotton gloves are not for use with paper-based books. We use them for some photographs and artifacts, but for handling “regular” rare books the professional standard has been clean, dry hands for decades.

Wow! I’m willing this information to stay in my head!

I heard that the new National Public Housing Museum allows people to touch everything in their recreated historic apartments but no adults do it. They might need to put out some magic gloves too 🤣

Wow, I would have gone to that if I had know about it. Maybe I’ll check out the next one. Was it worthwhile?

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Yes, Bluesky, I definitely meant to write inspider baseball

The world’s most-visited museum shuts down, sounding the alarm on overtourism The Louvre Museum has failed to open on time Monday, leaving thousands of visitors stuck in long, unmoving lines.

As a museum worker and a museum attendee, this is an interesting read. Overcrowding may be a problem I’ll never have— a busy day for us is 40 people— but this article brings some of the field’s inspider baseball issues to the public in a way that I don’t often see.
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I have one of those too

Let’s get @carlygoodman.bsky.social too

How about South Philly Historians who drink coffee together and cry while they figure out what to do?

When something you wrote about for your dissertation is in the news— with a lot of local boat drama! ⛵️⚓️

I bought this back in 2010 bc I wanted to smell like George Washington. They were selling it at the NJ State Museum. I remember it being light and lemony