About Me

As promised yesterday, here is a little bit of information about myself. I figured this would best be set up as a list of questions, and yes I did come up with them myself, so if you feel that I have left something out, please comment and let me know. My comments are called musings, just so you know.

1. Where do you go to school?

a. I go to school at Salve Regina in Newport RI, where I am a senior majoring in Cultural and Historic Preservation. I am not taking classes this semester, for reasons I'll post later, but I am set to finish up my graduation requirements and graduate in May. If any of you are looking to apply to undergraduate schools I highly recommend Salve and the CHP program.

2. What are your educational goals?

a. My goal currently is to get a Master's Degree in Museum Studies. I only applied to one school, the Cooperstown Graduate Program, because once I visited it, I knew it was for me. If I don't get in I'll just reapply next year. I'm not going to settle by going somewhere else. Depending on where I end up career wise, I am also contemplating getting a certificate or degree in Web Design. I also am open to getting a Doctorate, maybe in American History or something similar. I don't think that I could ever not be learning. I'm a lifer, lol.

3. What first got you into museums?

a. I have always enjoyed history, anthropology and the like. I also have archaeological experience and have spent two summers excavating around Newport. I seriously considered going into archaeology for a while, but as I will delve into later it was my job as Lab Manager that showed me that museums were my calling.

My first introduction to museums came from my Grandma, who had a lot of museum coffee table books. The pictures in them were exquisite. And I really wanted to reach into these photos and hold these objects. It was so cool how all of these objects, originating from all over, could be in one place.

As I got older and started going to museums, I really started to wonder how museums operated in order to have all of these things, and who decided to display them, and how could I get to work with such neat objects. Until I got even older, I didn't know that what I saw displayed was only a minute fraction of what the museum actually had, which only made me have even more questions.

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With the desire to keep my posts relatively short, stay tuned for tomorrow when I will continue to answer some basic questions about me and other museum musings.