Guests are People Too: Avoiding Toxic Behind-the-Scenes Venting
Photo courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society Anyone have school tours running around lately? Anyone tired from a busy [...]
Putting Visitor Research Data to Work at the Colony of Avalon
The Colony of Avalon is widely recognized as the best preserved early English colonial site in North America. Located in the rural [...]
54 AASLH Members Receive Over $5 Million in IMLS Grants
54 AASLH member institutions were awarded prestigious Museums for America grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). These grants, [...]
Historic Madison Raises Matching Funds and Qualifies for Jeffris Foundation Challenge Grant
November 10, 2015, MADISON, IN - Historic Madison, Inc. announces a significant milestone in its $2.5 million Capital Campaign to [...]
Embracing Audience Engagement: A Small Museums Scholarship Recipient’s Experience
By Claire Blaylock, Clackamas County Historical Society, Oregon City, OR This past September, thanks to the Small Museums Scholarship, I [...]
New-York Historical Society’s Center for the Study of Women’s History is First of Its Kind for a U.S. Museum
Collection of Tiffany Lamps to be Displayed in a Dazzling Glass Gallery Center for the Study of Women’s History is [...]
IMLS Notices of Funding Opportunity Now Online (Deadline Dec. 1)
The FY2016 Notices of Funding Opportunity for all five Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant programs for museums [...]
Taking Your Museum to the Streets – Chandler Edition
Every so often it becomes necessary to close a museum building. Maybe it's because of a facility issue, or a lack of funding, or an [...]
Field Trips and the Admission-Free Museum
In November 2012, the Detroit Historical Museum reopened after a 6 month, $12 million renovation. As a gift back to the community who helped fund [...]
AASLH Encourages History Organizations to Help Document Hurricane Sandy
Historypin, in partnership with AASLH, Google, the Metropolitan New York Library Council, and the Society of American Archivists launches the new initiative Hurricane Sandy: Record, Remember, Rebuild. [...]
What I’m Looking For. . .
This post is part of a new series on Arrrrducation. We've invited guest posters from outside of the museum field to tell us what they're looking [...]
I have a Disaster Plan. Now What?
A Disaster Plan is only as good as its implementation.That's good advice as we enter the storm season with risks of severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, and [...]
Interns 101
To begin, THANK YOU to all the students who, through unpaid internships, have worked countless hours in large and small museums. As we strive to [...]