When I'm not taking photos, I go the museum two days a week. (Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston)
In a museum's collection, every item should be registered and has an entry in a database that includes a description, dimensions, material, method/place of production, its history, where it came from. In theory, in practice not so much especially in a large museum that predates computers.
So, I am working though a lot of these objects and updating their records to something useful.

Now, the thing about registering items is a lot of obscure information we gather that is usually not much good for anything outside of trivia night is actually. Things like:

What's the difference between a medal and medallion?
A flag and a banner?
What is *this*?
Why is the internet so useless at telling me what something is?
What is the difference between a mug and a measure anyway?
What's the capacity of a gill? A pint in mls? Why do gallon and gill have Wikipdia pages but not pint?
Important stuff

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