Danielle Beisecker
Museum Educator
Resume
Professional Museum Experiences
Museum Educator
Berkshire Museum
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TBD
Pittsfield, MA
June 2025
Engagement Intern
Indiana State Museum
Indianapolis, IN
​September 2024 - May 2025
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Research, develop, prototype, and facilitate museum programs and activities for youth, families and adults.
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Manage community partnerships and local school communications.
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Support education staff with scheduled programming, daily engagement, and event planning logistics.
Gallery Interpreter
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Indianapolis, IN
June 2023 - May 2025
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Deliver high quality immersive and interactive experiences for children, families, adults, and field trips utilizing museum collections.
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Serve as a point of contact in absence of team leadership to create daily schedules and field communications.
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Provide customer service to visitors in the galleries.
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Maintain gallery cleanliness, assist with gallery operations, and open and close galleries.
Guest Services Associate
Kohl Children's Museum
Glenview, IL
August 2021 - May 2023
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Used Altru to handle purchases of tickets, memberships, and program registration.
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Updated the Guest Services employee code of conduct.
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Completed several independent data management projects to organize and update membership records.
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Assisted school groups with arrivals and lunch schedules.
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Supported docents and education staff through fielding interdepartmental communications
Pop-Up Museum Facilitator
Kohl Children's Museum
Glenview, IL
May 2021 - August 2023
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Facilitated child and family experiences in pop-up exhibits off museum campus for public outreach.
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Recorded attendance data and collected surveys to evaluate family experiences.
Pawnee Earth Lodge Exhibition Host Volunteer
The Field Museum
Chicago, IL
October 2022 - April 2023
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Utilized historic and contemporary materials to interpret the story of the past, present, and future of the Pawnee Nation in collaboration with the Pawnee Nation Cultural Resources Division.
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Delivered immersive and interactive tours and experiences for visitors and field trip groups.
Volunteer
Mississippi River Valley Archaeology Center
La Crosse, WI
September 2017 - May 2021
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Facilitated public outreach programming at local museums and heritage sites.
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Completed archaeological fieldwork.
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Supervised middle schoolers, high schoolers, and adults at a public archaeological field school.
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​Cleaned, catalogued, and curated archaeological artifacts.
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Completed lab work such as flotation, heavy fractions, and light fractions.
Education
MA Museum Studies
BA Archaeological Studies
Minor in Anthropology
Indiana University - Indianapolis
Indianapolis, IN
University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
La Crosse, WI
Skills
Museum education
Interpretation
Program development
Customer service
Communication
Project management
Collaboration
Research
Microsoft Office Suite
Grant writing
Evaluation
Community partnerships
Canva
Archaeology and anthropology