Attendant's View Blog and Cartoons

Do you wanna build a Mammoth?

27/5/2015

So, the Museums Journal has a page with things that folks and museums are disposing of - usually one entry is amusing by way of "12 boxes mixed what are believed to be hat-making implements, and Blackpool FC memorabilia: which due to the nature of the bequest must remain together. Free to anyone willing to collect."

Recently there was this gem in terms of strange by it's very nature, and strange in regards to who would use it to do what...

Approx 1,200 kg of Lego woolly mammoth.
That's about the weight of a small caravan.

I wonder if you have to work out how to transport it assembled from Milestones Museum, or have to work out how to build it?...

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Spoilers!

23/5/2015

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In case you missed it, this was the cartoon hidden in my review of Hampton Court Tudors on Tour.

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Speak in a language they'll understand

16/5/2015

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"Independence Seaport Museum's boat shop, Workshop on the Water, is dedicated to the skills and traditions of wooden boat building and sailing in the Delaware Valley and the New Jersey shore"

And they know how to apply humour to get people to do what the signs tell them to!

Source: http://ismarchives.tumblr.com/post/98234508904/meanwhile-in-the-workshop-on-the-water-this-is

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Handy Gallery Attendant Tip: Blu Tack

13/5/2015

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"My ring just rolled under that large cabinet"
"This label fell off the wall"
"There's a display stand which keeps falling over"
"My walkie talkie knob won't stay on one frequency"
"Can you pop these posters up?"
"People keep looking through the keyhole to the new art gallery we're setting up."

Handy Gallery Attendant Tip #31

Always have a lump of Blu Tack (or whatever brand of sticky, tacky putty you prefer or your budget allows) handy about your person.

Also useful for shaping small comedy animals and leaving them for co-workers to find and then sculpt into new shapes.

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Tudors on Tour: Think like a kid for a good time

5/5/2015

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Hampton Court and Henry VIII came up North, with Tudors on Tour bringing the Historic Royal Palace experience to Tatton Hall in Cheshire. But how does Hampton Court fare in a feild? Not that well, until we met some brash and tipsy ladies who changed our perspectives.

Initially, we were taken aback, as the Tudors on Tour was an area sectioned off at the end of what is usually an overflow car park feild. The ticket included a visit to Tatton farm to see the vintage breeds, some of which would have been common in Tudor times, and free entry to Hampton Court itself, but the main attraction seemed underwhelming.

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Do you do this as a customer?

1/5/2015

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We all cuss over our particularly stupid or unthinking visitors and customers, so I do wonder - how much do we do the same things when we are visitors and customers ourselves?

Let's see what top sins we also commit ourselves, that must drive staff like ourselves mad.

(I have omitted the special sins, such as "It's fine, I also work in a museum" or "correcting an attendant when you know they have got a fact wrong" as they are generally committed by professionals, rather than being sins we share with the general public)

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Do you wanna build a Mammoth?

Spoilers!

Speak in a language they'll understand

Handy Gallery Attendant Tip: Blu Tack

Tudors on Tour: Think like a kid for a good time

Do you do this as a customer?

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