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Okay heritage folx, quote tweet this with the story of That Time You Broke an Artefact. DMs open if you need to be anonymous.
anon submission
okay y’all both screwed up here
I also would have cried tbh
I couldn’t in good faith leave the name of the collection in but TRUST ME it makes this about 1000x worse
they go on to say no damage was done but the redacted important portrait has touched their butt
repairs in famous portraits are my fave thing
Okay I can’t even share this one because there’s no way to anonymise it effectively but FOR THE SAKE OF THE THREAD please know that an extremely senior museum person has just DMed me a HELLA bad one, proving that this extends to the highest echelons of our sector
oop we’ve got another National Museum pro sliding in the DMs
another blue tick submission
Near misses are my faves.
omg
I am CRYING
the great lesson here is never do anything in your own
OXFORD PROBLEMS
This is extra golden because they submitted it from the museum account
bonus points for loan artefacts
oh my god i've got another I can't effectively anonymise but you may Trust that the National organisations have entered the conversation and it's SO BAD IT'S GOOD
a classic
They finish by saying that they don’t want other new people to feel as bad as they did, which, hopefully, is what we are all taking away from this thread!
They followed with another message that says “don’t judge me”
o no
I didn’t redact this one because many stately homes have Long Galleries but oh my GOD
Bless. Show of hands how many other people was this yalls first job?
Shot
Chaser.
Round of applause please for this vol manager
The Romans really built to last but they didn’t anticipate US
train 
your volunteers
your volunteers
another anon submission from the museum account. I love it please keep doing this
oh gosh I feel like I could do a whole second thread of stories like this
okay well honestly this is the fault of the profs making you do this work whilst sick
it doesn’t count but imma post it anyways
there but for the grace of god
idk I debated adding this one because, well, yeah. but I think, given the age demographic of museum volunteers, it’s something that we should keep gently to mind.
honestly stuff like this probably explains the entire victorian era of museums
Always, ALWAYS warn people before you start tripping alarms
DAME MAGGIE SMITH CONTENT
the nationals have returned to the conversation
CN HUMAN REMAINS
......y'all. I have just been sent the full story, plus images, of an extremely qualified person putting a mattock through King Richard III's skull during the excavation.
This cannot be topped; thank you all for contributing, my DMs are now closed.
......y'all. I have just been sent the full story, plus images, of an extremely qualified person putting a mattock through King Richard III's skull during the excavation.
This cannot be topped; thank you all for contributing, my DMs are now closed.
