Regarding employment in a military museum and that "great job". That "great
job" is the goal of most of us and some of us are fortunate enough to find
it.
It is not always an easy thing to get into a museum, let alone a military
museum. Regimentally supported museums often use ex-military people or post
in people from the regiment for 3-5 years. Volunteering and getting yourself
known is always a good start (it worked for me!!) And as we all know,
museums and galleries can be notoriously under-funded, with military museums
often receiving even less, due to problems of perception by the public, and
the fact that many are often run by a regiment who can only afford to run
the museum on a shoe string budget. (There are of course always exceptions
to the rule)
I presume that you are interested in Army history as opposed to Navy or
Airforce, butg since I was not sure, the following web sites list many, many
military museum around the world and has great listings of military museum
in the States, and will at least get you some addresses to start writing to
http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/milhist/mus.html
http://www-saw.arts.ed.ac.uk/misc/museums.html.
This one is for New York only
http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/historic/histlink.html
Good Luck
Carol
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Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 18:47:37 -0700
From: Jo Young <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: military museums
Hi Paul,
Have you tried military reservations and arsenals? They sometimes have
museums--historians, curators, etc.--on the premises. I have had to contact
a few in order to put together an exhibit recently about the Gatling gun in
Indy, IN. Try Kris Leineke at Rock
Island Arsenal in Illinois, for starters, if that helps. There is one in New
Jersey and Maryland, too, that have historians on staff that might be able
to help. Good luck.
Jo
--- karen Santry <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Ho! I'm a graduate from school of visual arts and> I have a B.F.A. in
fine arts painting. I also I'm a WWII/military historian. I want to apply
for a museum job at a military museum. Preferably W.W.II. I would like to
obtain a job as a asst. curator/
> display designer. Or for that matter, anything to start. I am a native
New Yorker and still live here. I have volunteered at a few few local
museums. I was wondering if some one knew how I would "Get that good job".
I know it's a long shot, but I want to combine my love of both field into
one area. At this time, I do not want to get a masters.
> Any info will be helpful!!!
> Thanks!,
> Paul Muranyi
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