6th March 2013, 12:02 AM
If the museums want archaeologists archives then they should buy them: there are many examples where when a museum wants something it goes and finds funding to buy the objects, books, pictures whatever. If the museums dont want the archive let the archaeologists do what ever they like with the archive, context sheets, pictures, like throw them away, put them on ebay, keep them or not even pick it up or record it in the field. Museums buying archaeological archives shows that they care and that they think that the public should "care" (that there is a demand for it that might lead to its future preservation).
What we should be asking as archaeologists is why the fcuk should museums just take what ever we think they should. When ever I have put things in teh museum I never have the oh they were realy thankful that they have got it. Not one thing to my knowledge has ever made it on to their front mantel piece. (If it had i presumably would be scathing about not being paid). The only reason that I ever put my archive there is that the curators told me to. Why did they do that? I bet its something to do with jobs worth.
What we should be asking as archaeologists is why the fcuk should museums just take what ever we think they should. When ever I have put things in teh museum I never have the oh they were realy thankful that they have got it. Not one thing to my knowledge has ever made it on to their front mantel piece. (If it had i presumably would be scathing about not being paid). The only reason that I ever put my archive there is that the curators told me to. Why did they do that? I bet its something to do with jobs worth.
Reason: your past is my past