2016 AASLH Online Conference Recorded Sessions Now Available for Download
Six sessions recorded as part of our Online Conference for the 2016 AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting in Detroit are now available for purchase ($15 [...]
“What Did the Women Do?”: Using Museum Theatre to Share Multiple Perspectives from the Past
“What did the women do?” This question from our Executive Director was the beginning of our organization’s journey into Museum Theatre, and [...]
Creating Good Parental Leave Policy at a Small Museum: Lessons from the Lombard Historical Society
When I read Melissa Prycer's AASLH posts, "Baby Boom: Motherhood and Museums" and "Baby Boom II: Motherhood and Museums One Year Later," I [...]
Five Opportunities to Take a House Tour from “Meh” to Great
Since the AASLH offices were closed for Memorial Day, I decided to take my son on an outing–just the two [...]
3 Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in May
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards program [...]
Bonus Feature for Nomenclature 4.0
For those of you who purchased Nomenclature 4.0 you'll be receiving a surprise in the mail in the near future, [...]
AASLH/MMA 2016: Host Committee Offering 10 Fellowships for Minority Professionals to Attend the Conference
The 2016 AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting Host Committee is pleased to offer ten fellowships to minority professionals to increase culturally diverse participation [...]
5 Names for Museum Educators
A museum education specialist/interpreter/guide working with students While looking through the posts right here on AASLH, I ran across Do You Docent? by [...]
Are Unpaid Interns Legal?
As mostly nonprofit history organizations, a lot of AASLH members rely on unpaid interns to help at their sites throughout the year. We have all [...]
The Birth of an Exhibit
People just keep asking about Elmer, Elmer being Elmer McCurdy, an outlaw turned sideshow mummy. In March, producers from the T.V. show Mysteries at the [...]
Would You Buy a Bus?
I happened to see this article from 89.3 KPCC - Southern California Public Radio pop up in my Facebook feed last week and I can’t [...]
Meal Toys, Merchandising and Beyond!
A couple of times of year, I help my children sift through toys. Generally, we separate these objects into three piles: keep, donate and trash. [...]
Mark the Mammoth: A Small Museum Makes its Mark on the Twitterverse
The arrival of the internet has certainly changed many things, including how we think about marketing our museums. For at least a decade, a museum webpage has [...]