York Museums Trust Blog

One of the great things about working in a museum is the variety of the things we get up to. I think all the different things we do are all the more enjoyable because we don’t have to do one task all the time. It doesn’t seem long since we excitedly acquired the Cawood sword and in November I went to Germany to pick up a twice life-size stone head from a loan. We’ve been doing some work in the galleries to put objects on display that have previously been in storage, and that can be quite delicate, carefully handling objects with gloves and so on. What made me think of the variety, though, was the distinctly different job of constructing shelving in the off site stores yesterday! From careful, close work to moving around large chunks of metal and more bolt tightening than you could imagine… but, do you know, I think it’s the variety and complete changes of scene in the job that attracted a lot of us in the first place.