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{SPEAKER name="Eduardo Contreras (interviewer)"}
Did, since you grew up here in the D.C. area, I assume you came to, did you come to the Smithsonian Museum as a child?
{SPEAKER name="Sharon Reinckens"}
Yeah my dad used to bring me to the Smithsonian when I was a kid.
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{SPEAKER name="Eduardo Contreras (interviewer)"}
What were your impressions of the Smithsonian as a child?
{SPEAKER name="Sharon Reinckens"}
Well, when I was a kid I came to see an Egyptian archaeological installation. I must have been 10 at the time. I took a look at it and wondered who did the installing of the artefacts and how they came to put them in the museums like that.
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And I think that was when I decided that I would like museum work; that it was exciting, that you get to work with all sorts of wonderful materials about the lives of people that live here and live every--you know, across the globe. I was always fascinated with it.
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{SPEAKER name="Eduardo Contreras (interviewer)"}
Do you remember your first day on the job when you started working for this institution?
{SPEAKER name="Sharon Reinckens"}
No [[laughter]]
{SPEAKER name="Eduardo Contreras (interviewer)"}
No [[laughter]]
{SPEAKER name="Sharon Reinckens"}
No gray matter for that one.
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{SPEAKER name="Eduardo Contreras (interviewer)"}
Describe a typical day at work.
{SPEAKER name="Sharon Reinckens"}
Today?
{SPEAKER name="Eduardo Contreras (interviewer)"}
Today, that's it.
{SPEAKER name="Sharon Reinckens"}
A typical day at work today- I can describe today or yesterday.
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A typical day at work is generally- People at work at my museum work on many many many things at once, okay. And since we are a small group of people, everybody, we are working on multiple projects simultaneously and your are looking to document the results of multiple projects simultaneously. So, depending on what the urgent issue is, we go in an tackle to project that's coming up, the project that is behind. I am currently working on looking at what the role of community museums are in the U.S. and [[not auditable]]
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{SPEAKER name="Eduardo Contreras (interviewer)"}
Can you briefly describe your career at the Smithsonian or when you came to where you are now?
{SPEAKER name="Sharon Reinckens"}
I came as, I though I was coming, as an exhibit designer and after being at the Anacostia Museum about a year I figured out I was a community worker. Which was, never has been, apart of anybody's job title anyway. I've done-
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