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Row your museum boat ahead with intellectual support from Paul C. Thistle
Paul C. Thistle, the Principal of ➣Thistle to the Point Museum Consulting, has extensive experience in leadership & line work in the field of museums and archives.
Among other museum work such as cataloguer & term Assistant Curator of Native Ethnology at the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature [now the Manitoba Museum] in Winnipeg, Paul is the former Curator and CAO of The Sam Waller Museum (1983-1995), subsequently Director/Curator of the Dawson City Museum & Historical Society (1999-2002), Curator of Exhibits, Logan Museum of Anthropology and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Museum Studies, Beloit College, Beloit, WI (2003-2006), and most recently Curator at the Langley Centennial Museum & National Exhibition Centre (2006-2009). He has 26+ years of mission and management work in museums & archives.
He continues to research in the museology field and he writes the Solving Task Saturation for Museum Workers, the Critical Museology Miscellanea, and the Saskatchewan River Region Indian-European Trade Relations blogs [first Google hits]. In the field of ethnohistory, Paul is the author of the national, provincial, and academic award winning book Indian-European Trade Relations in the Lower Saskatchewan River Region to 1840. Manitoba Native Studies II and related journal articles such as “The Twatt Family, 1780-1840: Amerindian, Ethnic Category, or Ethnic Group Identity?,” a Prairie Forum article reprinted in the 2007 book The Western Metis: Profile of a People. Many of his museum-related publications are listed on the Analytical Reports page link found in the top ribbon.
Paul has teaching experience at the university, college, high school, museum programming, and professional development levels. He has many conference presentations to his credit, among them the 2022 American Association for State & Local History conference, Buffalo, NY, the 2014 Canadian Museums Association Annual Conference, Toronto, ON, & the 2012 American Association of Museums annual conference in Minneapolis, MN.
His educational background includes an Interdisciplinary M.A. in history and anthropology and a B.Ed. in cross-cultural and museum education from the University of Manitoba, a B.A. in anthropology and history from the University of Waterloo, and a Museology Certificate from the University of Winnipeg.
Details on the above are found on the Curriculum Vitae page link at the top of this page.
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Paul C. Thistle, the Principal of ➣Thistle to the Point Museum Consulting, has extensive experience in leadership & line work in the field of museums and archives.
Among other museum work such as cataloguer & term Assistant Curator of Native Ethnology at the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature [now the Manitoba Museum] in Winnipeg, Paul is the former Curator and CAO of The Sam Waller Museum (1983-1995), subsequently Director/Curator of the Dawson City Museum & Historical Society (1999-2002), Curator of Exhibits, Logan Museum of Anthropology and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Museum Studies, Beloit College, Beloit, WI (2003-2006), and most recently Curator at the Langley Centennial Museum & National Exhibition Centre (2006-2009). He has 26+ years of mission and management work in museums & archives.
He continues to research in the museology field and he writes the Solving Task Saturation for Museum Workers, the Critical Museology Miscellanea, and the Saskatchewan River Region Indian-European Trade Relations blogs [first Google hits]. In the field of ethnohistory, Paul is the author of the national, provincial, and academic award winning book Indian-European Trade Relations in the Lower Saskatchewan River Region to 1840. Manitoba Native Studies II and related journal articles such as “The Twatt Family, 1780-1840: Amerindian, Ethnic Category, or Ethnic Group Identity?,” a Prairie Forum article reprinted in the 2007 book The Western Metis: Profile of a People. Many of his museum-related publications are listed on the Analytical Reports page link found in the top ribbon.
Paul has teaching experience at the university, college, high school, museum programming, and professional development levels. He has many conference presentations to his credit, among them the 2022 American Association for State & Local History conference, Buffalo, NY, the 2014 Canadian Museums Association Annual Conference, Toronto, ON, & the 2012 American Association of Museums annual conference in Minneapolis, MN.
His educational background includes an Interdisciplinary M.A. in history and anthropology and a B.Ed. in cross-cultural and museum education from the University of Manitoba, a B.A. in anthropology and history from the University of Waterloo, and a Museology Certificate from the University of Winnipeg.
Details on the above are found on the Curriculum Vitae page link at the top of this page.
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