http://www.collectorsquest.com/blog/2006/10/16/curator-of-your-own-museum-part-one/ Where Hunters Gather Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:45:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.collectorsquest.com/blog/2006/10/16/curator-of-your-own-museum-part-one/comment-page-1/#comment-173803 deb clarke Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:23:01 +0000 http://www.collectorsquest.com/blog/2006/10/16/curator-of-your-own-museum-part-one/#comment-173803 Thank you, thank you, thank you! I had read this a while back and have kept it on the back burner (actually placed it in my favorites), until I opened my Lunch Museum three weeks ago October 1, 2009. Your article reminded that even though every person entering my collectibles store/lunchbox museum, is a potential customer; my first goal is to be the best curator ever. Everyone that walks into Clarke's Collectibles and Lunchbox Museum will hear an explanation or history or story about any piece in my collection. Some of course want to just walk through or perhaps just purchase an item quickly but they always feel comfortable in asking questions about my collections. Out of the hundreds of visitors the last three weeks, only one has asked to buy part of the collection above their heads, out of reach. This shows me that I have set it up right for both viewing and purchasing. Come visit anytime, you will not be disappointed. You will find the directions on my virtual museum on my website. Have a great day! deb clarke curator and owner Thank you, thank you, thank you! I had read this a while back and have kept it on the back burner (actually placed it in my favorites), until I opened my Lunch Museum three weeks ago October 1, 2009. Your article reminded that even though every person entering my collectibles store/lunchbox museum, is a potential customer; my first goal is to be the best curator ever. Everyone that walks into Clarke’s Collectibles and Lunchbox Museum will hear an explanation or history or story about any piece in my collection. Some of course want to just walk through or perhaps just purchase an item quickly but they always feel comfortable in asking questions about my collections. Out of the hundreds of visitors the last three weeks, only one has asked to buy part of the collection above their heads, out of reach. This shows me that I have set it up right for both viewing and purchasing. Come visit anytime, you will not be disappointed. You will find the directions on my virtual museum on my website.
Have a great day!
deb clarke
curator and owner

]]> http://www.collectorsquest.com/blog/2006/10/16/curator-of-your-own-museum-part-one/comment-page-1/#comment-93108 Wes Cowan, History Detective | Collectors’ Quest Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:22:35 +0000 http://www.collectorsquest.com/blog/2006/10/16/curator-of-your-own-museum-part-one/#comment-93108 [...] and understanding of collectors was clear as he talked about how objects hold stories and how collectors should think of themselves as curators. (In my notes I wrote, “It’s like Wes reads my [...] [...] and understanding of collectors was clear as he talked about how objects hold stories and how collectors should think of themselves as curators. (In my notes I wrote, “It’s like Wes reads my [...]

]]> http://www.collectorsquest.com/blog/2006/10/16/curator-of-your-own-museum-part-one/comment-page-1/#comment-17118 Collectors’ Quest » Blog Archive » To Preserve Or Display, That Is The Question (And I Know My Answer) Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:20:49 +0000 http://www.collectorsquest.com/blog/2006/10/16/curator-of-your-own-museum-part-one/#comment-17118 [...] My point today, if I must have one, is that while I’m an excellent curator of my own personal collections I’d likely make a terrible museum worker. Not only would I want to keep everything (as in, “keep it in my home”), but I’d have a terrible time taking things off display and putting them into the archives (storage). If I can’t decide what one item of mine to take along for appraisal, what do you think it would be like for me to choose which things to favor with display? Or is it showing more favoritism to properly preserve it? [...] [...] My point today, if I must have one, is that while I’m an excellent curator of my own personal collections I’d likely make a terrible museum worker. Not only would I want to keep everything (as in, “keep it in my home”), but I’d have a terrible time taking things off display and putting them into the archives (storage). If I can’t decide what one item of mine to take along for appraisal, what do you think it would be like for me to choose which things to favor with display? Or is it showing more favoritism to properly preserve it? [...]

]]> http://www.collectorsquest.com/blog/2006/10/16/curator-of-your-own-museum-part-one/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Collectors’ Quest » Blog Archive » Curator of Your Own Museum: Part Two Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:20:44 +0000 http://www.collectorsquest.com/blog/2006/10/16/curator-of-your-own-museum-part-one/#comment-3 [...] Perhaps the one area in which you are least likely to feel “like a museum” or a curator is that, at least in the beginning, you may not have defined your collection. Museums have a plan which includes the definition of their collection, generally before their first purchase is made. In part they do this for funding as they have to answer to a board of directors, benefactor, or other funding source — often they do before they get or expand a location. [...] [...] Perhaps the one area in which you are least likely to feel “like a museum” or a curator is that, at least in the beginning, you may not have defined your collection. Museums have a plan which includes the definition of their collection, generally before their first purchase is made. In part they do this for funding as they have to answer to a board of directors, benefactor, or other funding source — often they do before they get or expand a location. [...]

]]> http://www.collectorsquest.com/blog/2006/10/16/curator-of-your-own-museum-part-one/comment-page-1/#comment-2 | Bookmark Collector Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:44:28 +0000 http://www.collectorsquest.com/blog/2006/10/16/curator-of-your-own-museum-part-one/#comment-2 [...] Deanna Dahlsad has started a series of articles that follow up on her discussion of the personal collection as museum. In Curator of Your Own Museum: Part One, she takes the U.S. Department of Labor’s definition of a curator and breaks it down into three steps of collecting. For a bookmark collector: [...] [...] Deanna Dahlsad has started a series of articles that follow up on her discussion of the personal collection as museum. In Curator of Your Own Museum: Part One, she takes the U.S. Department of Labor’s definition of a curator and breaks it down into three steps of collecting. For a bookmark collector: [...]

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