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I just realised that if I loose my camera, the ability for the finder to post a photo online of a smiling family to try and find the owner will be slim. It is largely photographs of museum interiors, signs, labels and broken AV equipment. 
I was recently involved in a discussion about "Things no one told you before you started working in a museum”. It made me wonder: What would I tell myself if I could go back? I wouldn't want to put the younger me off working in museums, galleries or heritage sites, but perhaps guide them a bit in what to expect. The ten points here may not be the most vital and key things to know, but they are things I wish I'd been prepared for!  Earlier today I crowed that we’d successfully warped time and space in a new exhibition. (see here)
Then this afternoon our cabinet company emailed with a design suggestion for a new cabinet. To display something 600 x 600 x 600mm they suggested a 700 x700mm square cabinet, with sliding glass doors. Just envisage that a second. Sliding glass doors? We’re good, but we’re not able to (safely) fit something 600 x 600 x 600mm through a c. 350mm gap! Exhibition Designer: So, if we reorganize the room's contents, and remove a cabinet, we somehow have more shelf space.... Curator: Have we broken time and space? Exhibition Designer: Hurrah for us?  Yup, still not sure how removing an entire display cabinet and distributing it's contents has given us a bit of space to spare.
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