Dear Eric,

Don't get me wrong here: what I meant was that musueums today primarily look
for professionals who are qualified in a specific academic field AND understand
the museum as a medium for that field.  Neither is absolutely necessary but I
believe both are highly desirable.

Hervé


Eric Siegel a écrit:

> Herve wrote:
>
>  would go even further: a
> museum professional without some sort of solid academic background (at
> least
> undergraduate) in another discipline (be it history, art history or biology
>
> or cultural anthropology)
>
> is rather useless in a museum on a day-to-day basis.  You've got to be
> competent in a given field before you can work in an institution that is
> interested in that field.
>
> ==========
>
> Eric Responds:
>
> Yes, Herve, without my undergraduate degree in music I would have been
> "rather useless" in my fifteen or twenty years in art museums, public
> gardens, and science museums.
>
> Seriously, tho, I do think its a bit much to specialize in Museum Studies
> as an undergraduate.  It seems to represent the "trade-school-ization" of
> undergraduate education.  A trend about which I have mixed feelings.
>
> Eric Siegel