#museum worker

tech is great for accessibility, and to provide supplemental info for self-guided places. I don't mean an experience without seeing OTHER PEOPLE use their phones, a kiosk, an iPad, etc. that would be unfair to people who needed the accessibility features. just that those things should be opt-in

screens at low angles on stands so they're only visible if you actively walk up to them. iPads, as previously mentioned. audio tours accessible on your phone, but with a request to please only use them with earbuds/headphones. real human staff one can talk to.

NOT screens positioned upright on walls, timed light/sound shows that fill the whole space, etc.

i'd say i've made spectacular recovery for the past 3 years and my current job has had such a positive impact on me. back in 2022 i never thought i'd get this job at my favorite museum in Paris, and here i am, almost 3 years later and finally being ensured a permanent contract beginning of 2026. i never thought i'd be picked among the 50-ish applications my boss had to review back then. i was slowly crawling back from my depression pit, but still went to the interview - with the amazing support from my partner.

and ever since, my boss continued to insist for my contract to be renewed because she knows i like it there, my job gives me stability and i also made friends among my coworkers. so hearing from her that she once again stood up as 'my' advocate to the HR team makes it feel very gratifying, that someone does think i'm a good element and that they want to give me a chance to get some peace of mind. also, with only knowing a tiny amount of details, she still knows where i come from professionally speaking (burnouts and such), that i'm in a long-distance relationship so having some stable income is fundamental for me, and that i'm 31 and aiming at new goals and projects in the future.

Dear parents,

Thank you for not letting your gremlin child take this massive stick into the gallery, however I would like to know why you thought it was okay to bring it into the museum at all

Unfuck records for objects in the collections management program.

Classifying it as an "-ology" is arguably a little bit pretentious; it's the series of conceptual and professional standards that go with working in museums. The challenges are, in my experience and to be very very blunt, mostly financial and secondarily the fact that other people in the field all have their own very particular ideas of What The Museumgoing Public Wants. My favorite part is that it's a field full of incredibly passionate, precise thinkers who mostly hold themselves to very high intellectual standards and are proud to be doing something culturally important with their careers.