about me | Em in a Museum

I just found out I was accepted into an internship program for the fall and will be leaving Orlando for the nation’s capitol! I’m totally thrilled for the opportunity, and it’s going to be an exciting and anxious summer planning everything. I’ll be working with an advisor to be placed at an internship site, and probably won’t disclose where that is but will definitely be posting all about my museum sightseeing and city experiences.

In summer 2014 I visited Washington D.C. with my family and absolutely loved the city but wasn’t able to see everything in a short trip; it’s going to be amazing to have a whole semester to explore.

Here are some shots from my 2014 trip:

Smithsonian Castle

A painting by Matisse, I believe at the National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art

Library of Congress

Crowds on the Mall on the 4th of July

National Air & Space Museum

National Museum of Natural History

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

See you in the fall, DC!

I’m Emily.

I’m nineteen years old and attend the University of Central Florida, majoring in Interdisciplinary Studies, a program where I pick multiple areas (humanities, political science, and nonprofit management) and integrate them. In the future, I want to work at either a cultural nonprofit like a museum or a more political issue-driven organization.

I first had the idea to start a blog about museums a couple of years ago, after my sophomore year of high school while I was volunteering and working at summer camps. Well… it never really got going, save for a few #MuseumWeek tweets and pictures of exhibits. I drafted posts, I went on lots of museum trips, I even made social media accounts. But I think I was worried about creating content that would be excellent and cohesive or something when I had a million ideas. Now I’m back, more focused but also just with less concern for making this so official, because trying to get it perfect right out of the gate means I may never begin. I’ll be posting about museums, theory and history, exhibits, artists, my life… we’ll see. The semester just ended and now I have more time to write. Welcome to my site!