Placing Family History in Context: A Personal Example & Ideas for Museums
There’s no missing Americans’ passionate interest in genealogy today. Aging baby boomers have greater free time for research and deepened appreciation for [...]
Storify from #AASLHchat on Incorporating Pop Culture into Tours and Programming
Last week, AASLH hosted our very first #AASLHchat on Twitter. Our guest hosts, the Educators and Interpreters Affinity Community, created a great [...]
Notes to Self or When to Stay Up Late at Conferences
AASLH conference time is almost here! Last year was such a great conference, and I even wrote a few notes to myself [...]
The A-mazing Mendes Cohen
The exhibit concept for The A-mazing Mendes Cohen was to illuminate nineteenth-century history and the formation of Jewish-American identity through [...]
Welcome New AASLH Members (Oct. 2015)
AASLH is pleased to welcome all the individuals and institutions who became members in October. We are so glad you [...]
Interpretation at Catered Events
Catered events have become an increasingly important part of the business operations of many museums in recent years. In 2013, [...]
5 Ways to Get a Woman Out of the Kitchen
When I first came to the Doak House Museum in Greeneville, Tennessee, one of my first tasks was to learn the tour [...]
“We Gotta Do What????”
You have a new facility for your community museum’s collection. Well, it’s “new,” in a way. It’s an old house with some meaningful and teachable [...]
Advocacy Day: Museums as an Educational Resource
(L-R) Bob Beatty AASLH, Mark Ray TN Valley Railroad Museum, Senator Lamar Alexander, Senator Bob Corker, Jane-Coleman Harbison Brown University (originally from Nashville), Patricia [...]
An Easier Way To Manage Your Website
How do you manage your institution’s website? Can you make changes on your own, or do you need to contact your designer? How many people in your organization have the capability to make changes?
AASLH Advocacy Alert
National Endowment for the Humanities slated to be cut by approximately $60 million over the next ten years. AASLH is a proud member of National [...]
Pre-K Tours in History Museums: “And You Thought It Was All About You!”
This post is from Debbie Bartels, Education Aide at the Smithsonian Institution's National Postal Museum, in Washington, DC. The pre-K learner can be a self-centered [...]
Kiosks Should Add, Not Distract
We wanted to incorporate each kiosk into an exhibition so that it heightened mood while focusing on the content.