I would say that prospective museum professionals get no
          particular sort of indoctrination. As you have seen on this
          list, there are very few professional training programs for
          museum people. Those programs that exist do not function
          with a unified curriculum, as far as I know, or a unified
          perspective. As a museum worker for more than a dozen years
          (with an MBA from a program focusing on Arts Administration)
          , I have a pretty strong sense of how I view museums' roles,
          but I think that they are not necessarily in line with
          others in the field.
 
          I have two questions, for you: first, is "musea" an accepted
          term. I have seen it here on this list, but almost nowhere
          else. Second, I hadn't heard that the holocaust museum was
          troubled. In what way? All I had heard about was their
          smashing critical and popular success...
 
          Eric Siegel
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