Some brief writings on my topic

Museum Security Guards are probably the most recognizable people in a museum. They stand, walk around the museum, or even talk to you while you are there. As faces of the museum they wear a standard dress, a suit or a tag that says their name or what museum they work for. They are a constant in a constantly changing museum environment.

But despite their consistant presence they remain a mystery or a stereotype of a position. Guards are mean, or weird, or even scary to some. They follow you around the museum or tell you what not to do.

Without guards Museums would not be the places that they are, protected and able to show delicate and priceless works. The position has an image but how did it begin, how it did evolve? And what are the very strong potentials for growth.

This paper will present a collected history of the position. How guards are trained, who is constant and who is contract, as well as the hybrids of the position.

To do a paper like this takes serious creativity as well as hunting skills in research. The Museum Security Guard has a face but not a literature surrounding it. Thus interview, articles, manuals, and other creative texts will be used to describe the idea of the position but also the evolving place of the guard.

If you are guard is the face of the museum, why is it so mysterious and isolated? People know what guards do but guards are oftentimes cut out of the larger structures and programming in the Museum. As the face (and oftentimes) voice of the museum, a museum can tap that resource for a variety of reasons.