Museum Monday: Ten Things in the Indiana State Museum’s Video that Make Me Happy

Posted on by March 27, 2020

What makes me happy when I watch the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites Happy video? See it here!

  • Double-sided side truck
  • Not one, but two fume hoods
  • Heritage Preservation’s Emergency Salvage and Response Wheel
  • Labeled archive boxes
  • Blackout/dust covers over hanging costume storage and shelving content lists
  • Nice loading dock leveler
  • Stellar carpentry shop
  • People in meetings -non-museum people don’t know what sorts of coordination is necessary to make it all happen!
  • Huge freight elevator
  • Great museum cabinets and compact units

 

The staff at the Indiana State Museum truly seems happy! It takes a lot of talent to run a museum, so kudos to all the different departments making it happen at ISMHS and represented in the video(knowing full well that staffing is different in every institution, so if I give the folks at ISM a chuckle, great):Preparators, Photo Studio, Design, Security, Facilities, curator (drinking coffee?), Museum Shop, Conservators, Collections staff of varying ilks, Registrars (did I see a clipboard or two?), Visitor Services, and Education. And of course, the folks who filmed and edited it. Thanks!

 

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About Becky Fifield

Becky Fifield is a cultural heritage professional with 25 years experience in institutions large and small. She is currently Head of Collection Management for the Special Collections of the New York Public Library. An advocate for preventive conservation, Ms. Fifield is a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation, Chair of the AIC Collection Care Network, and former Chair of Alliance for Response NYC. She is also a scholar of 18th century female unfree labor and dress. There's a bit of pun in the title The Still Room, delineating a quiet space brimming with the ingredients of memory, where consideration, analysis, and wordcraft can take place. Ms. Fifield’s interests include museum practice, dress history, historic preservation, transit, social and women’s history, food, current events, geneaology, roadtrips, and considerations on general sense of place. Becky and her husband, Dr. V, live in the Hudson Valley.