These days, Museum Drip is in the business of considering how to make museums, and specifically art museums, more welcoming to non-art-expert audiences. Sometimes, things that would make museums more welcoming to one group of people will negatively impact another group. Dealing with deeply entrenched docent programs is one of those things. I’ve been writing…
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It’s September! And while I have no idea how many museums will be welcoming students into their physical spaces as we enter the second fall season of the Covid-19 pandemic, the earlier sunsets and PSL frenzy still means that museum educators are ramping up for the school season. Even if students aren’t getting the thrill…
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Over the last year this blog has set the stage of a lot of (certainly not all of) the whys of how museums become alienating. Now that I’m able to safely visit museums in-person again, I can start to shout out museums that are actively working to be welcoming. Here are 5 of the things…
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Happy first birthday to Museum Drip!! This is also the first post I’m writing on my new, functioning laptop and WOW. I feel like I could actually be successful one day now that I have the proper tools. Once I can afford to pay this bad boy off, it’s over for you bitches. (Little museum…
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In our last post about internships, the topic was the ways in which internships would not be saved merely by paying interns. I wanted to get into some good debates about the value of internships, the value interns bring to organizations, why paying wasn’t the only thing that would make a difference, since plenty of…
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May 31, 2021, marked a gruesome anniversary – 100 years since the Tulsa Massacre on Black Wall Street. June 2 marks a strange anniversary – 1 year since white people decided to show their allyship by posting black squares on Instagram. George Floyd was murdered on May 25, 2020, in the midst of a global…
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Happy May to all those graduating seniors! Honestly if you are, in fact, graduating from college right now, please do something nice for yourself because most people don’t have to persevere through a global pandemic to achieve a Bachelor’s degree. I’m proud of you! Hopefully you’ve got a spectacular job opportunity lined up, but if…
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