A Guide to Women’s History at the 2016 AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting
Mark your schedules! In one month, the 2016 AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting will begin. Here is a guide to Women’s History sessions and events: [...]
House or Home? Rethinking the House Museum Paradigm
Wheelwright House, Strawbery Banke Museum At their best, historic sites and house museums provide meaningful and personal touchstones to the [...]
Cemetery Preservation & Interpretation: A Resource Collection
Here is a collection of all AASLH resources on preserving and interpreting historic cemeteries. For more resources on a wide range of subjects, [...]
2015 Actions of the Council
On the opening day of the 2015 Annual Meeting in Louisville, the AASLH Council met to discuss the organization's membership, finances, [...]
AASLH Statement on the Closure of the Illinois State Museum System
October 2 In a budgetary battle with the Illinois state legislature, Governor Bruce Rauner has closed the Illinois State Museum [...]
Welcome New AASLH Members (Sept. 2015)
AASLH is pleased to welcome all the individuals and institutions who became members in September. We are so glad you [...]
How Charleston’s Past was Secured for the Future
2015 marks AASLH's 75th Anniversary Year. For the occasion, AASLH has created a blog series for members to share their [...]
Bringing in Other Disciplines to Your Historic Site
Recently I had the opportunity to meet with Toivo Motter, Director of Education at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens in Akron, Ohio. As with my [...]
Learning About Museum Classroom Placement
I don’t know how many conversations I’ve been involved with over the years with colleagues collectively lamenting the state of their museum classroom, out-of-date equipment, [...]
State Museum Association Conferences – For Connections and Conversations, Too!
Museum associations offer all sorts of services – training, newsletters, advocacy, salary surveys, preservation supplies discounts, technical assistance, site visits, and more – but the most important service they offer is access to your nearby peers.
A Parent By Any Other Name…Part 2
As Paul noted in Part 1 of this blog, every opportunity in an academic museum comes with a trade-off. I, too, initially basked in the [...]
“Rethinking the Rembrandt Rule” Meets the Real World
In his 2007 piece Rethinking the Rembrandt Rule, Jim Vaughan put forward the radical idea that this “rule” might not actually make a lot of [...]
AASLH and AAM Sign Statement of Collaboration
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: October 30, 2012 Contact: Cherie Cook, [email protected] Associations Will Work Together to Raise Awareness of National Standards (Nashville, TN) - At [...]