You Might Be A Museum Professional If ...

Your great grandfather's Civil War belt buckle is stored in an acid free
container and you only handle it with gloves.

You spot and then rescue 19th century family letters from your
mother-in-law's trash and wind up donating them to an archive (having kept
them in an archival folder until the donation).

You go to your mother's house and put all the oldest family photos in
archival sleeves, having first gotten her to identify everybody in the
images that she recognizes.



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Colleagues-

I've been asked to speak at a special party for museum professionals at AAM
this year in Boston.  I'm going to revive the piece I wrote years ago for
the conference in Atlanta, but want to update it with current ireverant
thoughts about our lives and careers.

If you have a funny or pointed observation about being a "museum
professional", would you please consider forwarding it to me off-list at
[log in to unmask] 

A couple original ones were...

If you not only read the brochures at cultural travel destinations, but
actually KEEP them...you may be a museum professional!

If, one day, you find you've organized all the stuff in your basement
chronologically...you just might be a museum professional!

Obviously, my apologies to Jeff Foxworthy...

One suggestion...don't worry about trying to make it funny.  It may very
well be an observation about something in museums or having a job in museums
that you find odd or completely annoys you.  That's OK.

Thanks,

D. Neil Bremer
Executive Director
Elmhurst Art Museum
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D. Neil Bremer
Bremer Communications
(708) 848-5945
(708) 848-6011 FAX


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