My last week at Museum of the Bible is over now. On the one hand I am happy to be back in Germany, but on the other hand the internship here was such a fantastic time that I am sad that it is over already. MOTB is an extremely young organization with incredible potential to impact the scholarly world as well as the public–and I do not mean this as some kind of marketing phrase! They are on a long way and still at the beginning, but I got the impression that the track they are on is the right one. Having been part of such a dynamic environment is unique. I also have never had the chance to work so closely with historical artifacts before. Their “aura” absolutely fascinated me and I would be glad to get such an opportunity again in the future.
Before I close this blog, I would like to say thank you to some people:
- To Brian for giving me amazing insights into his work with Medieval manuscripts, finding papyri with me and for introducing me to American (and Irish) culture in many wonderful conversations
- To Christian for spending so much time on teaching me Coptic and for his very lively narrations of “Gnostic” mythology
- To David for having been the best host and telling the craziest stories over American beer and whiskey
- To Jill for running the whole business and sharing her very special definition of the word “ornery” with me
- To Josephine for lots of interesting work together–from unfolding papyri to designing online manuscript viewers. Good luck to you at EMEL!
- To Norm, Ashley and Allison for great meetings working on the digital docents
- To Norm again for introducing me to Taco Tuesday and Rocky Mountain Oysters (I prefer the former)
- To Stacey and Samantha for helping me with this blog and their very helpful feedback
- To all the others–it has been a pleasure to get to get to know all of you!