#museology

I love work with art ✨️

Me, in the process of restoring a painting on wood, in the Conservation-Restoration class.

The artwork has already undergone mechanical and chemical cleaning; currently, chromatic/pictorial reintegration is being carried out.

Whenever I see the take "if museums returned all of the stolen artifacts, all museums would be empty" my blood reaches it's boiling point because NO, YOU'RE GENERALIZING ALL MUSEUMS TO BE AS BAD AS THE BRITISH MUSEUM AND DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU*RE TALKING ABOUT

No, I'm not saying this take doesn't ably to any museums in the world, there are museums which would go pretty empty if they returned all of their collections to their places of origin. But these type of museums kinda miss the mark on what is the modern idea of a museum and I will get to that soon.

Yes, many museums (and let's be frank here, especially if not specifically the European ones) have a colonialist history and therefore have artifacts that have been taken away from their country/culture of origin and there is layers of ethical problems in museums having these items and putting them on display. Now to state the obvious: This is of course wrong and I hope this issue will be corrected in the near future.

But people pretend like this is all museums do, when it's the opposite.

Nowadays, at least in my country, the philosophy in the field is that museums are supposed to perceive the history and traditions of their LOCAL cultures. So no, museums will not be empty, they just need to be (and many museums already are) filled with LOCAL artifacts and history. The British museum could, ya now, specialize in British history (and not just from the perspective of the British empire) and the museums in Egypt can display all the stuff about ancient Egypt instead!

I'm training at a museum as a future museum specialist handling all kinds of tasks. Today I worked on the scientific description and attribution of an object.

I can't even put into words how tender I feel toward this alabaster bas-relief of Sappho.

It's painstaking work — putting together the most complete description possible. It's crucial not to miss anything, not a single inscription or mark, and to carefully document every crack and chip on this poor girl, so that the restorers have the solid foundation they need.

I felt such awe and love for what I do. You're preserving an ancient artifact, preserving culture, working with real art.

And thanks to my curator — a smart and cheerful woman — who argued with me over whether it was marble or alabaster. I shone a flashlight through the relief, tapped it with my fingers, and in the end, I entered "alabaster" into the database.

HUGE news in Sweden in the world of decolonialising museums!!

Sweden’s oldest museum and one of its largest have been granted 400 000kr (approx. €37k) to during 2026 begin the process of repatriating their Saami artefacts to Sàpmi

El Acto De Crear

Exposición artística de mi universidad desde el área plástica por parte de los estudiantes de Artes Plásticas, Mención Museología y Artes Plásticas, Mención Museología. 19/05/2026