Jul 24, 2026 · 43 min · 11 segments
This year marked the 250th anniversary of the signing of the declaration of independence. Did you celebrate? Because it seems like Washington, D.C. didn't, or at least not very well. Jane talks with…
Seema RaoGuest
Jane MarieHost
What was your museum work? So I worked at the Cleveland Museum of Art, but I did what's called interpretation.
And we help make sure that galleries and exhibitions are more understandable to more people.
Curatorials, the role I think people don't understand about museums is they're really research institutions, not spaces that art is shown.
And so they're spending a lot of time like an exhibition I worked on, one of my favorites.
But it was about the idea that Pompeii exploded and then it was found and then it kept getting reconsidered by generation after generation of
culture.
What was your museum work? So I worked at the Cleveland Museum of Art, but I did what's called interpretation.
And we help make sure that galleries and exhibitions are more understandable to more people.
Curatorials, the role I think people don't understand about museums is they're really research institutions, not spaces that art is shown.
And so they're spending a lot of time like an exhibition I worked on, one of my favorites.
But it was about the idea that Pompeii exploded and then it was found and then it kept getting reconsidered by generation after generation of
culture.
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