I had planned on publishing “Tips for Developing Multi-Language Labels: Part 2” today, but a last-minute museum contract has me writing limericks* about cows instead. *Don’t worry, museum-in-question, they’re not all limericks. Here’s hoping you like knock-knock jokes, too. Advertisements
*What came first? Just another day at work, with 700(!) visitors and the world’s most adorable clutch of chicks. Say it with me now, “Awwww!”
Since moving to Germany, I’ve developed a keenly-tuned English-language radar. No snippet - spoken or written - is too small to escape my notice, and I delight when I find them. Along with hunting for moments of my mother tongue, I’m helping create them. I’m involved in several projects exploring different ways to incorporate English…
Hello, interwebs! Long time no see, eh? I took an unexpected blogging break over the holidays because I suddenly found myself swamped with a) a new job and b) two new museum contracts. Needless to say, I’ve been busy! But, I’m finally getting into a good rhythm and am excited to get back to Museums…
There are dozens of reasons to love working in museums. You get to work with amazing objects, tell incredible stories, and help visitors discover, connect, and be inspired. And sometimes, if you’re very lucky, you work at The British Museum and you get Tom Hiddleston to narrate your short film on The Book of the…
There are a lot of beautiful ways to get yourself seriously injured in Iceland: volcanoes, glaciers, geysers, cliffs, and pieces of fermented shark on toast. I was lucky enough to experience almost all of them (not the shark, because ewww), and I was repeatedly surprised at how minimal and unobtrusive the caution and instructional signs…
Another must-see on my trip to Reykjavik was The National Museum of Iceland. We almost didn’t get to go, but am I ever glad we did. It was gorgeous, interesting, fun, and I may have tried to hide our suitcases so we’d miss our flight and I could go back again. And while I loved the museum…
