I grew up in the West (not the Coast) and had exposure to mostly small
history museums growing up.  Hence, I guess, my interest in history and
history museums.  I was able to land a job as assistant registrar with just
a history BS (many years ago), so still hadn't had much more exposure to big
museums when I began my museum career.  I was accepted to attend a workshop
at the Smithsonian soon after being hired, and thought I had gone to Museum
Heaven.  I attended classes in the Castle during the day and ran through
galleries in the evenings so I wouldn't miss anything.  I had taken an art
history survey course and was very excited to see paintings from my textbook
on the walls, live and in person.  My favorite exhibit, however, was called,
I think, "The Nation's Attic".  It was a very eclectic collection of items
from storage the didn't relate to any other exhibit.  There were stacks of
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINES, unidentified items label, "What is this?",
obscure tools, losts of fun, weird small and large objects.  I've seen big,
impressive, traveling and permanent exhibits since.  But I think my favorite
is still The Nation's Attic.

Fun question.  Thinking about it brought back a lot of old memories.
Jerrie





Jerrie Clarke
Curator of Collections
Valdez Museum
http://www.alaska.net/~vldzmuse/index.html
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