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#MuseumEducators are a bit thin on the ground in the Fediverse and I'd really like to collect some more!
So do you work in a #museum, #gallery, #archive, #library or other #heritage sector organisation in a role which focuses on #learning and #education? Please say hi, especially if you're in the UK!
If not, do you know anybody who does? Please introduce us!
If neither of the above fit then a boost would still be very much appreciated.
Note: When I post things like this I tend to get helpful replies about following #tags: I know this, and I do! I'm looking for people rather than posts: there aren't many of either and the relevant #tags are just so much tumbleweed so far. There _must_ be museum educators out there somewhere (but they're not posting about museum education things because they haven't found anyone else who cares...): I'm trying to build that community.
i would love to visit. If I'm ever in New York I'll make a point of calling in!
I used to work in a museum. I'm now a part-time freelance museum learning consultant. I like to help museums (and libraries, galleries, etc) explore the maths in their stories, exhibitions, collections, and other areas of their work.
@TeaKayB Please do let me know if you’re in Albany (we’re not in NYC like many people assume). If I have enough advanced notice we can arrange behind the scenes looks at collections and such.
@zer0her0
Noted, and thank you!
There is! They're great and I follow them and hope to visit in person one day, but I'm not sure anyone from their education team is here...
@TeaKayB
Nobody uses the hash tags because nobody uses the hash tags because nobody ...
@deirdrebeth
That sounds great! Hello, and thank you for the correction...
Oh hello! I’m now the Schedule Tetris person at a small museum in NYC. We do all the guided tours, family programs, and school/teacher things.
@faileseia
Hello! Good to meet you!
@TeaKayB There's the @auschwitzmuseum account. Probably not exactly what you're looking for, but worth following.
@mpjgregoire
No, not what I'm looking for here, but I'm always on the general lookout for decent museum accounts to follow, so thank you.
@auschwitzmuseum
@TeaKayB @Hellybootwader Hi! I’m a novice librarian at a zen Buddhist center.
I have a strong interest in Museum Design and
I know I follow more librarians than this, but the ones that immediately come to mind:
@plaguepoems (not actively managed I don’t think, but from a librarian’s blog)
(Sorry for all the edits while I make sure I get the usernames/instances right! )
Experience & Immersive Design folks who may also have a museum design interest:
Science & Design folks who may…:
@moss @TeaKayB @Thacher @lauraehall @nervous_jessica @nervous_jesse @lia_pas @katypillar
Thank you for including me in such an amazing group! I am humbled and happy.
@TeaKayB Hi Tom,
I volunteer on a Lightvessel in Harwich Harbour - we are a floating venue subject to tide/wind etc. The ship itself is an exhibit - it was the last manned lightvessel to be used in the UK, until retirement in 1994. It is on the Historic Ships Register (national Maritime Museum register) and forms part of a local history walk. I meet & greet.
As a lightvessel: we show visitors how the crew lived, what their work was. The lantern still works but we only light it a few times a year as we're in a busy harbour! We fly the merchant navy flag and are the only publicly accessible merchant vessel in the area.
We also host a Pirate Radio Exhibition and visitors learn about the history of radio ships and how moden media changed in 1964, leading the BBC to change in 1967.
We host 2 radio stations and have 2 operational studios. We are developing 'studio experience' sessions for adults. I'm an adult tutor.
Funding is a problem! Oh, we suffered an arson attack back in Feb.
https://lv18.org
@shiraz
That sounds fantastic! I haven't heard of it before so thanks for introducing me to it. Do you do anything to introduce visitors to the mathematics in the site's story? I'm always on the lookout for maths-in-context opportunities that I can share with other maths teachers!
@TeaKayB Hi again
We don't push any maths directly but there are multiple aspects of the ship and ancillary aspects that use maths - so it can be brought in. We're exploring funding for museum interpretation support and are talking to the relevant county council museum team. The ship is 66 years old, has been owned by the charity for 25 years and has been on this berth for 12 years. We had plans before the pandemic to expand the offering from historical/informational to include educational input but a variety of issues put pay to that. Since then we were hit by arson. The flipside is that our plight was national news for a while - we have successfully secured some funding to restore existing facilities/exhibits whilst additional funding and museum support is being sought. We're moving forward, slowly!
@shiraz
I'm very sorry to hear about the arson. That's awful. I hope there wasn't too much damage to irreplaceable things.
The pandemic was a smack in the face across the heritage sector and I know a lot are all battling to rebuild. The museum I worked at before the pandemic (and was made redundant from because of it) is only now managing to reach its pre- pandemic visitor levels.
I'd really like to visit! I'm not over that way very often but I'll definitely keep it in mind for when I am. I have some potential work brewing with a museum that I think is in your general vicinity - I must check for sure!
Explicitly exploring some of the maths would make your offer stand out against others (and it doesn't need to be a "maths session": maths teachers really want to see contextual maths naturally occurring in activities that are ostensibly aimed at other subjects, as long as the students taking part recognise that it is maths that they're doing). This is true for primary school visits, but it's especially powerful as an attractant for secondary schools, if you do anything in that direction (or are thinking of it).
@TeaKayB Thanks for the comments. We lost 3 cabins starboard, each was themed with 1960s, 1970s or 1980s memorabilia plus everyday items. Most of those will be very difficult, if not impossible, to replace unfortunately. There were 3 more portside that are damaged.
The cabins themselves were solid mahogany, That puts the total restoration cost to £0.25m, of which £50k has been spent so far in replacing the entire electrical system (smoke & heat damage), cleaning, more cleaning, painting and rebuilding, from scratch, one radio studio.
The fire was 2nd Feb. We had the galley, mess room and main studio clean and operational for a planned radio broadcast at Easter with two DJs from the 1960s radio ships in our studio.
We re-opened to the public at Whitsun. The aft section of the ship is out-of-bounds.
So, beaten but not out. Visitor numbers are up on last year, probably because of the publicity.
@shiraz
People can be awful 
That's so much money needed for a senseless act.
The radio thing sounds cool. My dad was a big fan of Radio Caroline in his youth (he died earlier this year).
I hope things continue to improve. They say all publicity is good publicity... But I don't think it feels like it in this case.
@TeaKayB I'm the scientific advisor with the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site in St. George, Utah, and one of my primary functions is to help design (and, recently, revamp) exhibits (including signage) there, so I guess I'm something of a museum educator, although I'm not directly involved with the site's education and outreach programs...
@TeaKayB
Hi
Book and paper conservator at #LambethPalaceLibrary involved in outreach and education
#GLAM
#CollectionCare
@AmazingMeagen
Hello! Nice to find a fellow #GLAM education person on here, and relatively close, too!
Here's one for you: do you/ Lambeth Palace do anything to bring out some of the maths in related stories, objects & exhibitions (& conservation work, come to think of it)?
@AmazingMeagen
Ooh, that sounds great! I'd love to know more...
@TeaKayB Hello from the beaver & moose-infested former colony! 
Academic frontline Library Technician here. Formerly worked in engineering library & project records, plus practicums (Practica?) in government libraries.
@Canuckduff
Hello! Sounds great!
@TeaKayB Hiya! 
Our whole museum focuses on education: for university students, for K-12, for older community members, for _everyone_.
@georgiamuseum
Excellent! How much of your programming explores mathematical themes?
@TeaKayB Some! We have done a good bit of STEAM programming with our local school system as well as with homeschool groups. We've done programs that focus on STEAM + the Italian Renaissance, for example. Essentially, we're willing to customize a tour or interactive program on whatever a teacher wants.
@georgiamuseum
Excellent! I'd love to know more about the maths links you explore. Do you have any links you can point me towards?
@TeaKayB We don't (we should!), but if you email gmoa@uga.edu we can put you in touch with our education folks.