Ask a Curator

It's Ask a Curator Day on Twitter! Visit your Twitter account or search.twitter.com and search for the hashtag #askacurator. You'll be able to see questions by Twitter users and answers from museums around the world about just about everything. Log on to your Twitter account to ask a question yourself. Museum curators are on call in their libraries awaiting your queries. See our curatorial director Dave*:

So, ask anything that comes to your mind! Want to know what we love about museum work, or what we loathe? Want to know how to keep moths out of your textile collection? Curious about child labor and the National Consumer's League? Ask away! Just remember that our answers have to be shorter than 140 characters...

*Disclaimer: Dave Favaloro does not really smoke or condone smoking and our collections manager does not actually allow smoking inside the museum library.

400 Years of Immigration History

If you're on Twitter, be sure to follow us this July as we tackle 400 years of American immigration history via 140 character tweets. Drawing on a timeline of immigration from JFK's A Nation of Immigrants, we'll share several tweets every day, starting from the beginning of the nation's history in the 17th century. In conjunction, we'll be posting longer explorations of this history on the blog, hopefully a few times a week. It'll be a great chance for our followers to learn more about America's immigrants, past and present, and hopefully engage each other on a variety of different topics.

You don't even need to have a Twitter account to read along - just find us at Twitter.com/tenementmuseum.

Follow a Museum Day

Today is the day to follow a new museum on Twitter. Started by Jim Richardson of Museum Marketing, who wanted to draw attention to museums with Twitter accounts, the day is meant to encourage you to find an amazing new museum.

So read more about Follow a Museum day here, then log on to Twitter and search #followamuseum to see what great museums are out there. Start with @tenementmuseum and @tenementtalks!