Recruiting Your Superiors: Thoughts on Advancing in the Field
Earlier this week, I participated in the #AASLHchat on “Issues Facing Emerging Professionals”. Contributors shared so many good ideas, and you can [...]
Ask FSA: Reading Insignia on Military Uniforms
Identification of the military decorations John Glenn earned as a Marine Corps pilot and astronaut, 1943-1965. Photo courtesy of author. [...]
Take Two and Call Me in the Morning: A Glimpse at Life in Field Services
This post was originally published on Backstage Pass to North Dakota History and is reposted here with the author's permission. I am often [...]
The Lost Museum
Public Humanities graduate students at Brown University re-imagined and resurrected the Jenks Museum, a natural history collection that existed on [...]
Dressing the Bed: A Living Demonstration of 18th Century Needlework
The Betsy Ross House is unique among peer museums nationally in its interpretation of the life of a working-class, eighteenth-century [...]
The Civil War in Pennsylvania
As part of PA Civil War 150, the statewide commemoration of Pennsylvania’s role in the Civil War, the Heinz History [...]
The Big Graph
Over the past several years, programming at Eastern State Penitentiary has increasingly addressed contemporary corrections and the recent, truly historic [...]
The Great Man Tour is Alive and Well (Unfortunately)
Like many of you, I curate a historic site that was founded to promote and promulgate the legacy and letters of a famous dead white [...]
Why Hire an Interim CEO
Generally speaking, CEO positions are vacant for one or more of the following reasons: CEO with long tenure (10 years and over) dies, retires, or [...]
Black Hills Mining Museum Donates W.E. Adams Records to Deadwood History
DEADWOOD – The board of directors of the Black Hills Mining Museum recently donated a collection of archival records to Deadwood History’s Adams Museum. The [...]
Who Does “It”?
Directors do it. Educators do it too. So do curators and marketing folks. What is “it” you ask? “It” is pondering and questioning what visitors [...]
Managing the Hands-On Collection
We all know that hands-on learning opportunities are engaging, and result in meaningful visitor experiences. Visitors enjoy experiencing “the real thing,” and putting it into [...]
The Way We Word: Introducing a Blog for Users of Nomenclature 3.0 for Museum Cataloging
AASLH and the Nomenclature 3.0 Task Force are pleased to introduce this blog for users of Nomenclature 3.0 for Museum Cataloging. Nomenclature 3.0 is a hierarchically [...]