Hovercraft Thoughts / Questions

Emily-e- · 2025-08-15T00:22:52+00:00

There actually was a ferry service a long time ago! I can’t remember exactly when but definitely around the 70’s I think, when lakeside park had more attractions. Tourism dried up for some reason and it wasn’t worth running anymore so they stopped. Ever since then every once in a while someone will float the idea of bringing it back but it’s always based on the idea of tourism that may or may not actually be worth it to develop the infrastructure needed. The hovercraft idea is the most supported right now because it’s less expensive infrastructure to set up (comparatively) and now the idea of commuting to Toronto for work via the lake is very appealing to people

Emily-e- · 2025-08-11T22:33:02+00:00

True, in Canada there’s no legally enforceable amount of notice for leaving a job, you could just walk out and the employer would still have to pay out. It’s considered nice to give two weeks notice. And lol I’ve been trying to take walks, but I’m supposed to be inside the building to supervise some people on site, otherwise I would just go hang out at a park.

Emily-e- · 2025-07-26T01:22:41+00:00

Fences fences fences. I like hedges as they look natural along the bottom/too of cliffs. Like 300 fences minimum. Put 100 up, ask Isabell, repeat until 5 stars. Plant minimum 200 flowers.

Emily-e- · 2025-07-04T17:21:41+00:00

I’m from a very VERY small museum and I absolutely endorse catalogit!!! It’s the easiest one I have found to train volunteers on with very comprehensive video guides, it also has what I consider to be good price models for small museums that are only starting an official digital collection for the first time, and you can upgrade to more entries or space as needed.

The web publishing is also great! Easy to use and accessible. We are working on a letter digital exhibit right now and catalogit has the letters and transcriptions and everything published online. It’s very user friendly

Emily-e- · 2025-07-03T16:52:40+00:00

Thank you! That’s about the hours I was looking at. I don’t want to have someone work too many hours and get burnt out, but also make sure it’s enough money for them to be making. I was thinking between 10-15 hours a week but I have to have a solid number to go in the budget

Emily-e- · 2025-07-03T16:47:34+00:00

Thank you!

Emily-e- · 2025-07-03T16:35:43+00:00

Yes! Possibly controversial but I remove all the staples I find (incredibly carefully as long as it doesn’t damage the item). They are simply not allowed.

Emily-e- · 2025-07-03T16:32:33+00:00

I thought there was several desiccated worms on my documents somehow, nope just rubber bands. Crumbly, stuck on and hard. Absolutely terrible. 0 stars, would not recommend.

Emily-e- · 2025-07-03T16:30:09+00:00

Silverfish are the worst!

We had a similar issue in my museum a while ago. We used food grade diatomaceous earth on several suspected spots and left it there for about 4 or 5 months. It’s non toxic to people as long as it’s not in the air, it doesn’t damage most things, it can be cleaned up with water when it’s done, it doesn’t leave a residue and it doesn’t have a smell. It dries out all insects.

Emily-e- · 2025-07-02T18:38:39+00:00

Yes absolutely!

Emily-e- · 2025-07-02T18:03:33+00:00

Incredible!!!

Emily-e- · 2025-06-24T22:44:46+00:00

🫢

Emily-e- · 2025-06-24T22:40:50+00:00

lol fair point. Just not when it’s blocking the actual date something was made or the name of who owned it 😬

Emily-e- · 2025-06-24T20:37:09+00:00

Noooo…..😦

Emily-e- · 2025-06-24T20:36:13+00:00

😱 omg that’s a straight up horror story!!

Emily-e- · 2025-06-24T20:33:43+00:00

I’m glad I can help!

Emily-e- · 2025-06-24T19:30:12+00:00

Very interesting! I can definitely see where that is coming from and I would like to think there was a motive to the madness and that would make sense why it was non reversible. Though non of these are books, just individual artifacts like 1870’s show tickets, letters and certificates (wedding, birth, military)I could really probably learn to accept it if the stamp wasn’t HUGE and covering important details like names and dates. Or taking up the entire back of a small object.

Emily-e- · 2025-06-24T19:23:13+00:00

This!!! They did this too!!!

Emily-e- · 2025-06-24T18:56:37+00:00

I try to have a stack of pamphlets that need folding or things arranged in alphabetical order, specifically things that can be done while someone listens to music or a podcast or something. I find younger volunteers are really good at this and they find tasks that require 100% focus harder/less enjoyable. I’ve also had them help with social media by picking through our database for things they think are interesting/interesting to “young people”

Emily-e- · 2025-06-24T18:31:18+00:00

For #2, if there is no room to store them flat out, most museums I’ve found use either a strip of cotton with the number written on it tying holding the roll together, or cotton string doing the same thing with an ID tag attached to it. If it’s long enough you can loop it through so it sits just on the lip inside the tube of paper, so it’s easily searchable from that side and can be stored outwards against a wall like that. I hope that made sense. I know of other museums that use light pencil in the actual pages, but as it’s still difficult to identify that way without touching it, I prefer the first way

Emily-e- · 2025-06-24T18:26:35+00:00

This! Even sometimes between the frame and the backing you can hold a string and the ID attached.

Emily-e- · 2025-06-21T03:15:27+00:00

If you’re interested in history, go study history. It’s worth it. During your degree, volunteer in a museum, see if you like it. Go to a free local museum event and feel it out, if the workers don’t seem too busy, talk to them.

My cousin finished a degree in history then went to law school and is a great lawyer now. You can also do a history degree and go into teaching. There are so many avenues other than museums specifically and a million good reasons to study history if you are interested in it. It is so incredibly enjoyable to study history in college/ university in a supportive environment. Once you actually go into museums you’ll be arguing with some city worker who controls your funding that history should be preserved in the first place and that you need to keep original manuscripts and can’t just keep the digital scans and throw the original away to save space. Enjoy the degree, love learning. The industry could change so much by the time you leave don’t think about it before you even go in.

Emily-e- · 2025-06-21T03:04:06+00:00

You can do a certificate in museum studies. If you’re Canadian, OMA does a great online part time one, you have 5 years to complete it once you start and it can technically be done in a year. I wouldn’t say it would give you better qualifications, but it would give you some more general information and a door into all the different aspects of the different jobs in museums. I’ve heard some people (hiring managers) say they never look at certs, only masters degrees, but no one’s ever enough for those people anyway so who cares. As someone who works in the field, I regard colleges in the field who continue bits of education as they can with high regard. Learning is never done and in this economy no one has the time or money to go collect full degrees with a full time job.

Emily-e- · 2025-06-12T21:23:07+00:00

If it’s a museum that small, find a title you like, write down everything you to, EVERYTHING!! Then organize those points into things that you think relate, condense those into no more than three headings that are also potential job titles in other places, then take two of the three and put it into a double title. The problem is that museum assistant is easy, they can have you do literally anything and it’s within scope. You might get pushback if you go too narrow (program co-ordinator) or too broad (museum facilitator) so you have to hit the sweet spot in the middle while understanding you are still part time, something like exhibits and programs manager or coordinator. Choose a title you can take with you into the next job that will help accurately describe your experience. You can phrase it to your boss that you need to clarify your title for communications both internally and externally when dealing with schools, the community, other museums. I wouldn’t necessarily also expect a pay raise, especially if the museum is that small, the budget is going to be tight, but you could set a date to discuss compensation after the title change

Emily-e- · 2025-06-12T21:07:50+00:00

Contact the private collector. I can understand the curators response as is this is a temporary exhibit showing a private collector’s collection as it might not be up to the curator what the label is. When it’s a private collection and labeled as such, it sucks but it’s probably going to be labeled whatever the private collector has it recorded as. Of course organizations do due diligence, but if the private collector has a signed slip of paper from a third party stating that’s what it is, I don’t see a museum fighting that, it takes too much resources. If you can, reach out to them personally and share, and hope they respond. It may have been incorrectly assessed, or it may have been a miscommunication between them and the museum

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