Someone's Gotta Do It

Tim Holland

accessallareas@museum.vic.gov.au (Museum Victoria) — Mon, 30 May 2011 02:59:00 GMT

If a stranger asks me what I do, I... typically say I’m a vertebrate palaeontologist. This usually elicits one of two responses: “Oh! Tutankhamun! Can you get me free Tutankhamun tickets?” and then I have to disappoint them and say no. But most of the time people get it correct, they say palaeontology, fossils, dinosaurs, prehistoric animals, that sort of thing. At Scienceworks they were lookin...

Jareen Summerhill

accessallareas@museum.vic.gov.au (Museum Victoria) — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 03:56:00 GMT

What’s that? It’s my narwhal. It’s probably my favourite animal in the whole wide world because it’s like the unicorn of the ocean, and they’re rare. So, yeah, they’re my favourite. [I got it] from a museum in the States when I was visiting on holiday and I just had to have him on my desk. He doesn’t have a name, actually… but he’s pretty cute. This is a paperweight but it’s amazing ‘cause it’s...

Herb Lim

accessallareas@museum.vic.gov.au (Museum Victoria) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Hi, I’m Herb Lim from IT and I’m the manager of the IT service desk. When a stranger asks me what I do, I tell them I’m in IT. Then I have to get into tin tacks and tell them I’m in the service desk side, which involves hardware, software and all the questions that you want to know. It’s not the boring web stuff. Oh, I shouldn’t have said that. In my job it’s important to , I believe, give good...

Karen Jakubec

accessallareas@museum.vic.gov.au (Museum Victoria) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:13:00 GMT

If a stranger asks me what I do… I say I am the loans manager at Museum Victoria, which gets them a little bit confused – as soon as you say loans, they think finance, and I say no, no, no, the museum loans objects from institutions, small companies, individual collectors and historical societies to help enhance the exhibitions. Well, the first thing I’m going to do when I get to work tomorrow...

Tilly Vaughan

accessallareas@museum.vic.gov.au (Museum Victoria) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:26:00 GMT

If a stranger asks me what I do, I… say that I volunteer at Scienceworks, and part of the volunteering that I do is driving old heritage tractors and steam engines around their oval on designated Machines in Action days. Well, the first thing I do when I get to work… on Machines in Action day is, I go down to the workshop and don a pair of overalls and put my little blue engine drivers cap on a...

Brian Choo

accessallareas@museum.vic.gov.au (Museum Victoria) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:53:00 GMT

I first got into this area by being a raging geek. Loved dinosaurs since I was a little kid and was drawing dinosaurs and that maintained my interest in palaeontology since I was a small child of six years old. The fish I work with, they’re from the late Devonian period, about 375–380 million years old. In my job I never dreamed... I would work on dead fish for a living. Dinosaurs are the sexy...

Luke Simpkin

accessallareas@museum.vic.gov.au (Museum Victoria) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:48:00 GMT

I’m Luke Simpkin and I’m Manager of Live Exhibits at Melbourne Museum. If a stranger asks me what I do, I say…   I’m responsible for everything that is alive in the museum that isn’t human. The first thing I do when I get to work is… enter the forest gallery and I have a bit of a walk through before any of the public are in here just to check out what’s happening and to see how everything is...

Bernard Caleo

accessallareas@museum.vic.gov.au (Museum Victoria) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:18:00 GMT

When people ask me what I do... I say I work at the museum in the public programs department; we’re a team of seven people or so and we work out things for people to do on the weekends and in their school holidays. And my specialty is shows, presentations, theatre in the museum. I’ve done some character work. My main character has been Harry Call, a story collector who wears a blue safari suit ...

Helen Privett

accessallareas@museum.vic.gov.au (Museum Victoria) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:40:00 GMT

If a stranger asks me what I do… I say I work on Museum Victoria’s collections, doing conservation and restoration of the objects. I usually throw “restoration” in because most people understand restoration and the concept of restoration more than they do conservation. The first thing I do when I get to work is… very different on every single day, to be honest. Some days I can sit down and sit ...

Jessie Sinclair

accessallareas@museum.vic.gov.au (Museum Victoria) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:34:00 GMT

If a stranger asks what I do, I… normally ask, 'how recently have you been to the Melbourne Museum?' And if they say, ‘not recently’ then I say, ‘well, we actually have live animals here and I look after them.’ The first thing I do when I get to work is… Say good morning to our reptiles. I poke my head in and make sure they’re okay. And later this week I… am actually meeting up with a whole lot...