As of 2026, I have worked in museums for over 48-years and I am very happy to share some of what I have learned or seen. Perhaps these tips and comments will save you from “reinventing the wheel” as you face museum problems. These lessons can be of great use to collectors, because really, collectors and museums are doing the same thing, just that one is personal and the other is usually operated by a group. The two are sometimes one and the same.

Museums do the following basics operations:

Museum Lessons
- Museums – Giving a Tour & Public Speaking
- Continuity in Museums
- The Two-Way Test for Museums
- Inventory of a Museum Collection
- Museum Loans
- Museum Buildings
- Museum Terminology

Museums the I have worked at or for. Some have since changed their names:
- AS A PAID STAFF MEMBER
  - Vancouver City Archives, Vancouver, BC
  - Vancouver Centennial Museum, Vancouver, BC
  - Vancouver Maritime Museum, Vancouver BC (now renamed MOV)
  - St. Roch National Historic Site, Vancouver, BC
  - Battleford National Historic Park, Battleford, Saskatchewan
  - Batoche National Historic Site, Batoche, Saskatchewan
  - Cumberland Museum, Cumberland, Vancouver Island, British Columbia
  - Estevan National Exhibition Centre, Estvan, Saskatchewan
  - Burnaby Village Museum, Burnaby, BC
  - Museums Manager for City of New Westminster, BC
    - Irving House, 1865
    - City of New Westmintser Museum
    - City of New Westminster Archives
    - Samson V Museum – 1930s paddlewheeler
    - New Westminster Police Museum
- ON PAID CONTRACT WORK
  - Royal Canadian Artillery Museum, CFB Shilo, Manitoba
  - Canadian War Museum (multiple contracts), Ottawa, Ontario
  - Richmond Museum re: Steveston Museum, British Columbia
  - Osoyoos Museum, British Columbia
- UNPAID VOLUNTEER MUSEUM WORK