Goodbye Daily Muse
And so it goes, and so it goes, and so will we soon I suppose. We finished our work, finished our time together, our projects, presentations, daily missions, daily posts. We did pretty well. I am so grateful to David, to Valerie, to each of you, to the university, and to museums on the whole. This put a great many things in perspective for me as a student and as a professional. I only just left another state to come back to New York, and being here to receive an inside look at the busiest, most vibrant museums in this fine city was so exciting! It’s all here! Times may be uncertain but we are in a well-intended field, and we have a lot to be responding to, and responsible for. There is something for everyone. We are not neutral. We never will be.
As the coming weeks progress, our brains will continue processing the knowledge we gained though the experience. Museums are broad. There is not always a rubric so if and when we need it, we tend to create it ourselves. Our presentations were enlightening, each in a differing way, and it was evident we are all hardworking people. If I were to end up at an institution working alongside any one of you, I would thank my lucky stars. It goes to show that this field of study we have chosen for ourselves, museum studies, as it were, this museology for us to muse over and amuse ourselves about, it is…well it is far and is wide and it takes a certain kind of spitfire, an almost stoic, understated panache, the kind that exists under long skirts and robes and drapery, in between ladders, on hinges, in the yellow bubbles of a level, or the buzzing of wires behind a framed Rembrandt. Types A or Q or Zed, paranoid, dusty, or zen, it all makes its way in there, somehow in the end.
