Behind Melbourne Museum's shiny facade sits a world hidden from view

Museums display only a fraction of their collection so we went behind the scenes at the Melbourne Museum to find the untold stories kept from public view.

Got some media files from another museum for a travelling exhibition, and it looks like they've upres-ed a bunch of the images with AI. Current task is hand painting faces back by hand to replace the melted blobs that the generative AI created. My kids all think that my job is basically an extended episode of Taskmaster.
Krita is proving absolutely the right tool for the job, the painting tools in it are brilliant.
#AIFail #Krita #WhenYouWorkAtAMuseum
So my job today is to convince my computer to make movies of pretty fluffy clouds using maths.
#Blender #WhenYouWorkAtAMuseum
Cupboards with threatening auras. ☠
#Entymology #WhenYouWorkAtAMuseum
So there you go. Just when you think you’ve seen it all, two 13yo boys lay an egg in front of you. And somehow I doubt that was the last egg that teacher was going to see today! 😂 #museums #museumed #teaching #whenyouworkatamuseum

2/3 They splutter and point. From the back, I hear the teacher… “Is that another egg?!”

ANOTHER?!

So the teacher starts wading through his class to get to me and the egg (which I can now see is boiled). All the while trying to figure out where it came from and whether there were any more. He confiscates the egg, while I try not to die laughing

#museums #museumed #teaching #whenyouworkatamuseum

Story time! Taught a Gr 7/8 class today. Doing my thing. Talking. Imparting wisdom. Cracking jokes. When the two boys sitting directly in front of me sproing apart like they had suddenly been yanked. I look down, and sitting between them?

An egg. 🥚

I look at both of them. I look at the egg. Both boys are trying to climb their neighbor in an effort to get away from this egg.

Says I: “Did one of you just lay an egg?!”

1/3
#museums #museumed #teaching #whenyouworkatamuseum

Students at theRoyal Ontario Museum exploring the deep past of Indigenous peoples in a #ROMLearning lesson by examining a mastodon tooth, a stone chopper, and a beaded necklace with thunderbird. Thanks to Paulette Steeves and Kent Monkman for prioritizing these conversations! #museumed #museumeducation #whenyouworkatamuseum
Also found these adorable teeny sandals! #WhenYouWorkAtAMuseum #MuseumEd
“I found a box of mandible casts. What should I do with it” #WhenYouWorkAtAMuseum #MuseumEd