Inventory of Expertise

Yesterday Joe volunteered his inventory of expertise amongst the museum attendants:

Attendant/expertise

Joe/words
John/numbers
Jim/walking
Bob/plants
Derek/military
Mike/horse-racing
Shaaron/shopping
Sue S/culture
Sue T/theatre
T-J/ballet
Neil/art
Graham/education
Peter/football
Linda/cooking

Consultations available free of charge from the front desk (or over the walkie-talkie).

I tested this informal information source by asking for all of the characters of the Magic Roundabout (this stimulated by a label on one of the boxes). Disembodied voices floated from the radio in the basement. Dougal, Ermentrude, Zebedee...

How many layers of information and expertise exist in the Museum and how would you map the connections with the world outside?

We already have the enquiry slip - curator (keeper?) - local groups - regional societies - the world trajectory. What about the attendants and their dissemination and exchange of knowledge. I still like the idea of an expertise booth, but it could be paper not 3-D. Lots of slips of paper - left at the desk, passed on to experts, trapped between the pages of books.

Maybe we need phenomenography to make sense of it all?
Or maybe, as Joe suggested, we could make a version of Simon Patterson's Tube Map which is upstairs in the art gallery of the museum.

Also have to think about EXPECTATIONS. I was told that when we were introduced as 'artists in residence' the attendants expected easels and palettes.

How do we share our expertise??