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  • 1.  Question

    Posted 10-07-2024 01:02 PM

    Dear All

    I want to know what is the most unexpected thing you have ever herd a visitor say to another in a museum. Many years a go I  was in Boston and had a chance during the trip to go to the MFA (Museum of Fine Arts) and I heard two young women in the photography gallery say why is this here? I was a bit stunned to here this and wonder if I miss heard them. I have an undergrad degree in  art with a photography miner, so to here this when I know that a lot of the people pictures on the wall in that gallery fought to get them there and get photography respect. I look forward to all responces.

    Thanks,

    Rachel



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    Rachel Alschuler
    Museum Education/ Visitor Experience
    San Francisco CA
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  • 2.  RE: Question

    Posted 10-08-2024 02:14 PM

    When I curated the exhibit of Victorian Dress at the Met, my mother-in-law asked me who had made the dresses for me...



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    Caroline Goldthorpe
    Director, Museum Studies
    Northwestern University
    Santa Fe
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  • 3.  RE: Question

    Posted 10-09-2024 09:14 AM

    A Board member at an institution where I worked asked, while on an orientation tour, if the historical clothing in the storage area was real.

     

    Ellen E. Endslow

    Director of Collections/Curator

    Chester County History Center

    225 N. High Street

    West Chester, PA  19380

    610-692-4066 x257

     

     






  • 4.  RE: Question

    Posted 10-09-2024 12:40 PM

    Dear Ellen

    Oh boy thats a doozy. From what I know about any institution that preserves history from a historical society to a veterans museum. 

    Thanks,

    Rachel



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    Rachel Alschuler
    Museum Education/ Visitor Experience
    San Francisco CA
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  • 5.  RE: Question

    Posted 10-09-2024 12:37 PM

    Dear Caroline 

    It is interesting what people will say and not realize what that means and implies. 

    Thanks 

    Rachel 



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    Rachel Alschuler
    Museum Education/ Visitor Experience
    San Francisco CA
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