By Mark Kratzner, Red Skelton Museum of American Comedy, Vincennes, IN
Although I worked media support for a major Indianapolis museum in the 1980s and ’90s, I really wanted to learn more about the collections side of museum work. My dream job was to be the curator at the Red Skelton Museum of American Comedy in Vincennes, Indiana. After volunteering in 2006 and becoming a part-time employee in 2015, my dream became a reality in 2017. But like the joke about a dog that chases a car and finally catches it, now that I have, what do I do with it? Attending the AASLH Annual Meeting with support from the Small Museums scholarship helped me learn ways ...