Arts Patron Aims to Help Underrepresented Museum Professionals.
Allison Berg has established a #foundation to elevate the careers of six emerging visual arts curators, educators and administrators each year
https://archive.ph/QrBBX #museums #museumprofessionals #museumworkers #art

📰 "Curatorial fellowships launched for D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people"

📢 Curating Visibility programme offers career development opportunities to tackle underrepresentation in sector

Full article here: https://museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/2024/01/curatorial-fellowships-launch-for-d-deaf-disabled-and-neurodivergent-people/

Three #fellowships will run between April 2024 and June 2025 and aim to bring more #diversity to the UK museum sector.

#MuseumsAssociation #MuseumNews #neurodiversity #MuseumWorkers #museums #GLAM #curatorial #disability #deaf #disabled #neurodivergent

There is no end to the museum exodus.

Higher salaries are a major reason why mid-level museum workers are leaving for commercial gallery jobs but instability caused by the Covid pandemic is also a factor.

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/12/28/there-is-no-end-to-the-museum-exodus #museums #museumworkers

For her monthly column, Elizabeth Blasius discusses pay and labor equity in the history and cultural work sectors, highlighting the unionizing efforts of the Minnesota Historical Society

🔗 https://mascontext.com/observations/the-passion-tax-is-history

#MinnesotaHistoricalSociety #NAPE #AFSCME #HistoryNebraskaUnion #MuseumWorkers

"Two-thirds of museum workers are thinking about leaving their jobs, if not the field altogether, according to a survey out this month. The top reasons? Burnout and low pay."

🔗 https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/09/15/why-do-us-museum-workers-want-to-quit

#MuseumWorkers #MuseumsMovingForward #BurnOut #LowPay

"Mutual Aid at Work" provides organizers with a resource to form their own mutual aid networks in the Library, Archive, and Museum (LAM) community, brings awareness to existing mutual aid groups and efforts to support LAM workers, and provides possible pathways organizers may take

#MutualAid #LAM #LibraryWorkers #ArchivalWorkers #MuseumWorkers #DLFLabor #AWC

🔗 https://sites.google.com/view/mutualaidatwork/

Researchers at the Goeldi Museum, Brazil's second oldest museum and the first scientific institution in the Amazon, discovered 710 new species of plants, animals and fossils over the past two decades. And yet by the end of this year, the research staff will be reduced by nearly 60% over what it was ten years ago, due to retirements, deaths and no new hires since 2012.

Saving the Amazon is also about valorizing science and scientists.

http://jcnoticias.jornaldaciencia.org.br/26-o-fim-do-museu-goeldi/#

#amazonia #MuseumWorkers #BrazilianPolitics #BiodiversityCriss @anthropology @ethnobiology

One thing that doesn't get talked about openly enough in the museum world is the joy of befriending many incredible senior aged volunteers and the grief when they pass away.

#Museums #MuseumWorkers

I'm looking for #MuseumWorkers #archivists #Curators #PublicHistorians and #CollectionsManagers and anything related. Loved that community on the old site and looking to find some folks to follow. I work at a small historical society and "wear many hats." I don't contribute a lot to the discussion but I love to keep up with new ideas, strategies, museum jokes, and solidarity / general morale improvements. 🥰🤓💕