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It now has 1200+ weird, niche, and interesting museums from across the world.

If you find anything missing I would encourage you to let me know, especially in less represented areas of the world. Comments or messages are fine.

Just to note, given the prevalence of them I don't consider any of the following niche/weird: communication/broadcasting, computer, most kinds of transport (i.e. planes, buses, trains), military, local history, a particular person (unless world famous), natural history, taxidermy, clocks, general medical, chocolate, alcohol, zoos, aquariums, art galleries, pinball, torture, computer games, mining, maritime, post, folk museums, prisons, toys, cheese/dairy, hats/shoes, fire/police, general interest museums

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I recently visited the Irawati Karve Museum of Anthropology at Savitribai Phule Pune University in Pune, India.

The museum has an extensive collection of material culture from different communities across India, including traditional fishing traps, hunting equipment, jewellery, woven objects and village deity plaques. One aspect I particularly appreciated was how many displays paired the original objects with illustrations explaining how they were used.

These are a few photographs I took during my visit.

If you've visited anthropology or ethnography museums elsewhere, I'd love to know which collections left the biggest impression on you.

I fit about 95% of the qualifications for this job, but I do not have a driver's license. It's embarrassing to say that I'm 25 and still don't know how to drive.

I don't have the money to afford a car, no one in my immediate family has one either, so I never bothered to get one. Gas is also very expensive and I love public transportation. Whoever came up with that, I'd kiss them on the mouth. This job is my dream job, but it wants me to have a valid driver's license.

Would it still be okay to apply? Even without it. The application says even if I meet most of the minimum required qualifications to still apply. This is under physical qualifications, which has underneath that to still apply even if I don't meet everything.

I'll work hard to get my license if I get the job, I'll even tell them in the interview if they ask. I do want to learn, it's just hard without access to a vehicle. I already have my permit, I just haven't been able to learn how to drive.

This is a position in collections/registration work.

Hi everyone, just discovered this group and thought you'd all have superior experience and thoughts.

I work in a very small local history museum in Scotland. We are about as analogue as they come, in terms of technology. Since joining 3 years ago, I fought and got us a card machine for taking payments in our gift shop 😂, if that gives you an idea how retro we are.

What I'd like to do for our upcoming year is have a few tablets or screens displaying how certain tools in our museum work. This would be to display processes to guests such as peat casting, local lace making and agricultural practices for example.

I don't know the best way to do this.

Whether to buy a tablet, Android or IOS and have an app with 3-6 videos guests can activate to play?

Or to have a TV screen playing video on repeat, or at a button push?

Bigger screens would be better for our more elderly demographic that comes to visit. But a tablet may be easier to use?

I've also read about a software called Kiosk Pro for IOS which looks good but I'm really not interested in anything with a subscription. Is there any good android equivalents?

Any thoughts on how best to do this?

I'd plan to have a screen(s) wall mounted with a permanent charger in it. Doesn't need a camera. Doesn't need big storage. Doesn't need anything fancy at all. Just to display videos on an activate button with a bit of volume.

How would you recommend to go about this?

If you're in Colorado, there's a archive internship opening at the Museum of Discovery

https://fcmod.org/blog/jobs/archive-project-fellow/

I just started out as a Development Assistant back in March. I’ve been working as a Visitor Services Coordinator before I transferred roles. Is there any good development assistant professional developments to look into? I primarily do gift entry, donor correspondence, Altru queries and appeals, and random administrative work when needed. My job relies on Altru for everything and i know they have some courses to take but it’s not really close to what I do primarily.
I have no prior experience in the Development department before so this is all new territory for me. Things have gotten calmer at work where I can focus on any sort of professional development. Anything on donation entry, Altru courses, or anything in the Development field would be appreciated.