One more museum

You know, in yesterday’s post about working in museums, I forgot one!

For a few months in 2009, I took a part time position at Pier 21, Canada’s immigration museum in Halifax.  I was a full time cartoonist by then, but I missed having regular work, and I missed museums.  I was an admin assistant, and impressed at least one person with my mad Excel spreadsheet skills.  

It was a bigger museum, and as admin assistant I was much less involved in the “cool” museum business the way I was at the MMBC.  More like a regular admin position.  In the end, I didn’t have time to stay on anyway, but that was the last job I had outside of art.  It doesn’t loom as large as the others, but I enjoyed it all the same.

The museum had an amazing view of George’s Island in Halifax harbour, which would get you feeling pretty romantic, but then a gigantic cruise ship would pull up and block everything like the jerks they are.

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    Halifax represent! I love my city/town on the ocean.

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