Hi, World.

Hi there.  My name is Beth, and I'm a lover of museums. 

I love the musty smell when you walk in to them, I love seeing little kids scream with joy and run towards dinosaur fossils, I love the way you can get so lost in learning about things you'd never thought about before that you accidentally skip lunch [this happened to me today.  I'm hungry, but I know so much more about Mexican nacimientos!  Totally worth it].  I love watching people stand in front of a painting silently while other patrons walk past.  I love when you find that corner of a museum that's quiet and empty and you feel like you're getting a personal letter from the past that's just for you.  I love tiny little museums in the middle of nowhere that expose a tiny facet of the world that would otherwise be lost to you.  

Really, museums are just awesome.

So this little blog is my love letter to those bastions of art and history and science that help us learn and grow as people and as cultures.  I'm not quite sure yet how it will shape up, but it's bound to include stories from my travels, my job (I'm lucky enough to work in a museum.  I have to walk past a T.rex to get lunch every day--how lucky am I, right?), and my research and pokings about in books and articles and the internets.

I'm sort of excited to see where this goes.