on Ari Meghlan blog:

Introduce yourself as an art historian who works in a museum and you will immediately elicit an impressed expression from your audience followed by a blank one.

While most people associate the job with being educated and (somewhat) cultured, chances are no one outside of the field will understand what you do all day and why you get paid to do it.

The following is a cheat-sheet to being an art historian, and museum work in general in the United States.

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