There’s plenty of places to look for commiseration and information if you’re looking to leave the museum field for good, or looking for a community to enforce your instincts that maybe museums themselves need to be overhauled completely. We’re in the business of considering how to make museums feel more welcoming. Perhaps we should think…
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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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In the spirit of the crisp back-to-school air, let’s talk about education in the art museum today. If you’re already an art museum educator, you’re probably aware that there is already a whole blog called Art Museum Teaching. It’s a great space for in-depth analysis of some of the points that I want to raise…
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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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Brenden Fraser has been in the news a lot lately. Having been cast in Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of “Killers of the Flower Moon” alongside Leonardo DiCaprio. I guess he was trending, or however that works, enough that a tweet popped up in my feed that went something like “I guess y’all really loved George of…
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There it is, right in the title. The third edition of the Blockbusters series is likely the most well-known of the museums in the movies category – the Indiana Jones shit! This is what you’ve been waiting for, I know. Reminder: I have never seen Night at the Museum, and I never will. The Indiana…
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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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It’s summer and the movies are rollin into the theaters. I’m dying to go to a movie theater again, but it’s a little bit of a trickier transition than going back to an art museum where, even if you’re at a packed blockbuster show, the person next to you is unlikely to be shoveling popcorn…
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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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