My second day at the North Carolina Museum of Art, I was helping Molly, a different member of the Design Team with her project. Said project had me checking gallery spaces against floor plans to make sure that all the art was where it was supposed to be. For me, this meant a lot of walking around and puzzling over which ID numbers went with which pieces and being very confused when some of the art was mysteriously missing. No, nothing had been stolen; the issue was that the floor plans were kind of old and when pieces got moved around or sent to storage, the plans hadn’t gotten updated. By the end of the day, I was able to get through nearly all of the West Building of the museum, except for part of the Modern/Contemporary galleries, a tiny part of the European galleries, and the American galleries, which, luckily, had been completed beforehand. Meanwhile, work continued on de-installing the art in the Ancient American gallery in preparation for the new exhibition, and plans were made regarding swapping out pieces in the African galleries.
