I went to the Virginia Holocaust Museum with my friend/employer Mandy last Thursday to watch a play put on by my old MS about children of the Holocaust. I had the opportunity to walk through a bit of the displays before the play began, and since then I've been thinking a lot about what I want to do when I grow up. For the first time I'm having doubts about teaching history; I'm seriously considering becoming a museum curator or assistant or exhibit designer or something cool like that. Do they even get decent salaries?
I looked into what degrees would help with that from BYU. They have an Art History & Curatorial Studies minor, but I could care less about art history (although working in an art museum would be ok...), and it requires 2 world civilization classes which I have already taken, but from a different department. So I am kind of bummed on that, and currently debating if it would be worth it to take the 2 new civ classes to get the minor.
Why I don't I just start my own museum? How insanely cool would that be? (And also very hard, I suppose... dang.) But I've been picturing myself more and more in a museum instead of the classroom. I think a History Teaching major will still be beneficial in getting a museum job, though. Guess this summer will be for praying to figure out what should happen.... I'm off to look for museum internships through BYU.
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