Hey you mentioned you trained to do curatorial museum work, what does that entail? (Asking as someone still trying to figure out their life)

It means that you handle designing the exhibits in a museum. You decide which artifacts go in them, how, and where, and also how the exhibit itself is set up – does foot traffic go left to right or right to left? What text goes next to each case of artifacts? You also spend time making certain that all artifacts are properly cataloged and stored where they belong in appropriate containers that will help to preserve them. You make sure that artifacts in exhibit cases are displayed in such a way that you don’t put stress on the artifact. If you’re trained in archival work like I was, you also handle old documents and make sure they’re stored so they don’t stick to each other, and don’t have staples in them that rust away and damage the document, etc. Same thing applies to fabrics, even buildings and graveyards sometimes. 

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