On Nov 11, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Chris Laning wrote:
Both of these, alas, pretty much boil down to questions of money. Museums are increasingly understaffed, and often can't spare the time for their curators to do much research on what something really is and how it should be labeled. Also, it means that the few curators they can hire often don't cover the full range of expertise they need for the things they have -- almost no fine arts museums have jewelry curators, for instance.
Sometimes it's a matter of what costumers can do for museums! It's possible that they could use volunteers for some of these tasks. If the museum is an essential source for the type of costuming you do, make them your project as well.
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