On Wednesday, September 13, #AskACurator Day took place on Twitter. This is the eighth year of the initiative, the brain-child of Mar Dixon. This year 1,489 museums in 58 countries took part in the social media experiment. As museums struggle to attract younger visitors and members, #AskACurator Day is a great way to open up the channels of communication about what it’s like to be a curator and what goes on in the museum offices. How does it work? Institutions have different approaches, but the most common is that people can ask a curator a question on Twitter by tagging the museum and ending with the hashtag #askacurator Here are some of the questions asked this year:
