Midway Through the Summer

This week I spent time in the museum working on the reorganization and identification of the artifacts, but I also spent some time discussing my work with museum's Chief Executive Officer as part of my mid-term evaluation. I'm very grateful not only for her flattering evaluation of my work in the museum building but also for the professional, yet amiable working relationship we have. I was able to ask for suggestions of what I can do better as easily as suggesting changes to the displays of artifacts. While work in the museum has been progressing nicely, for my next shift I will be training to work in the welcome center. Crowley, like most museums, relies heavily on volunteers and the welcome center will need extra help next month. I'll be training in the coming week so the welcome center will be adequately staffed while museum staff are attending professional networking functions.

I have also started to write captions for a series of weekly posts the Chief Executive Officer - Dixie - has wanted to implement on Facebook. The series is called "Museum Musings with Ms. Morgan," and while the name was also Dixie's idea, I do just adore some clever alliteration! For each post, I have been charged with selecting an artifact in the museum's collections, writing an interesting and educational caption about the object, and submitting the caption (along with a few photos) to Dixie for posting on Crowley's Facebook page. The hope is that this series will not only aid in the museum's mission of education but do so in a way that specifically highlights historical artifacts at Crowley, as the natural resources at Crowley ae already the focus of most of the programs offered to the public. It is my hope that highlighting some of the museum's historically noteworthy artifacts will help attract positive public attention to Crowley. The museum is not located on a main road or even a particularly busy one and now traffic has slowed further due to county construction projects. While Crowley is situated on a conservation easement, it would certainly be a benefit to the museum if Crowley started to gain notoriety for its unique and diverse collections.