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Onslow County museum collections manager says donors entrust 'their history' to staff
Summary
Emily Baker, collections manager at the Onslow County Museum, said she has an obligation to care for items donors give the museum, describing duties that include storage, maintenance and exhibit work and stressing that donors entrust the museum with local history.
Emily Baker, collections manager at the Onslow County Museum, said she has worked for Onslow County for 10 years and feels “an obligation to take care of all of these things,” referring to items donated to the museum.
Baker described her responsibilities as managing collections storage, maintaining donated materials and helping design, research and write exhibits for the museum’s changing gallery. “People when they decide to give these things to you, they’re essentially entrusting you with their history,” she said, emphasizing the trust donors place in the institution.
She also said her work involves interacting with the public and with donors, noting that stewardship includes both behind-the-scenes care in storage and public-facing exhibit work. Baker framed the collections manager role as an ethical responsibility to preserve items entrusted by residents rather than as a transactional task.
The remarks present the museum’s stewardship duties and priorities; the transcript does not record any formal board action, vote or proposed policy tied to the comments.
