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For whatever it's worth:
I have a Masters degree in History; spent twelve years as 1) Director of
Community Services and Adult Education, International Programs,
International Education and Executive Director of a World Affairs Council
for a community college; 2) Executive Director of a major world trade
association; 3) president of an unprofitable consulting company; 4)
director of a history museum. The history degrees and the twenty years of
non-profit management experience have provided me just about all I have
needed to run this museum, although I had to do some quick on-the-job
learning to get up to speed on certain aspects of museum management, most
of which are common sense (like how to determine if a potential curator
knows what he/she is supposed to do).
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Robert Handy
Brazoria County Historical Museum
100 East Cedar
Angleton, Texas 77515
(409) 864-1208
museum_bob
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From: Dill, Christopher L.[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, August 17, 1998 3:34 PM
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Subject: Re: An interesting questionabout starting in museums....
I think Deb may be right. I started 25 years ago as an
anthropology graduate student who took a job running a
state historic site. Moved through a soft money
archeological position to a hard money state
archeologist job, and then to the museum - I went from
digging it up to taking care of it, all with the same
employer. There were no "museum studies" courses
readily ("obviously"???) availble to me when I started,
although I was always fascinated with museums, and
worked in one at the U of Kansas while in school. On
the other hand, the folks who apply for jobs here now
often come out of public history or museum studies
backgrounds. I suppose that some "old timers" must
have gone directly and deliberately into museum work,
but I don't recall the opportunity ever being real in
my youth.
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