In article <[log in to unmask]> Nicole Bouvier
<[log in to unmask]> writes:
>Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 09:38:46 EDT
>From: Nicole Bouvier <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: a foot in the museum door
 
>Also - keep in mind that you may have skills that you might not
>immediately think are applicable to museum work. I got my first museum
>job in college - as a somewhat dissatisfied architecture student, I
>volunteered to draft exhibition plans for a student exhibition that a
>friend was working on, and was subsequently hired to draft for the
>college museum's exhibition designer. It never would have occurred to me
>to think of my drafting skills as a possible "in" to the museum field
>before I actually did it - what kinds of "non-traditional" skills do you
>have that might possibly be applicable?
 
>Nicole Bouvier [log in to unmask]
 
 
Surprising skills are often necessary! We run a small interpretive hands-on
railroad museum. Our restoration efforts require carpenters,  machinists,  and
brute muscle as much as researchers and curators. Our interpretation
efforts have required horse trainers, dialect coaches, drivers, brakeman,
costumers, and more brute muscle.   I'd have never thought of putting brakeman
down on my resume as a useful skill....
 
 
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