THE MUSEUM LADY

I am, at heart, a Curator. I have spent my entire career studying, using, and caring for historical objects and helping museum visitors make meaning from them. I have a Master's in Museum Studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program, and worked for the National Archives, the South Dakota State Historical Society, the Minnesota Historical Society, and the North Star Museum of Boy Scouting and Girl Scouting. I have also done independent consulting... At all of these institutions, the care and interpretation of the objects under my purview has driven me. I am committed to public history-helping visitors better understand what the objects before them in a museum setting mean. In working with history museums, my goal always is to help you better know, and better use, the objects in your care and under your responsibility. This encompasses everything from basic inventory services to exhibition development, and anything else with which you need assistance... Claudia J. Nicholson is an..