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What You Can Learn from 7 Theme Fusion Success Stories
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An Outward Museum: Building Community at the Levine Museum of the New South
Photo by James Willamor Museums serve in a unique yet vital manner as stewards of humanity’s cultural heritage. Collections are [...]
We Are at the Center of What It Means to Be Americans: A Letter from the AASLH Council Chair
Dear Members, AASLH is helping lead our local and national discussions about the importance of historic context, the value of content that can [...]
Recognizing the Rainbow: The National Park Service’s Quest to Include LGBTQ Americans in Telling All Americans’ Stories
Tim Gill, founder of the Gill Foundation, holds up a copy of the 1200 page theme study at the launch party [...]
Classifying and Naming Digital Objects with Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature 4.0 can be used to catalog digital objects. It allows museums to record information about the format (e.g., “Document, Digital”) [...]
Middle Tennessee Museums See Success with StEPs
AASLH received a grant from the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee in the fall of 2011 to create a StEPs [...]
AASLH Invites Nominations for 2016 Leadership in History Awards Program
NASHVILLE, TN—December 2015 The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) invites nominations for the 2016 Leadership in History [...]
Meet a Member: Jackie Peterson
We are excited to launch a new biweekly blog series called “Meet a Member.” AASLH has 5,500 fascinating members working [...]
Working with Private Collectors and Researchers
Many years ago when I was first working on entering the museum profession, I talked to the director of a major military museum. This director [...]
Lisa M. Feinstein Named Vice President for Institutional Advancement at The Strong
Lisa M. Feinstein Named Vice President for Institutional Advancement at The Strong® The Strong is pleased to announce that Lisa M. Feinstein has been hired as [...]
Visiting Corporate History Museums
One of the fun things I get to do as Program Manager at AASLH is to visit our member museums. Last summer, I was in [...]
Creating the Collector’s Corner
Most of my challenges from working in a small museum are from two things: money and time. When the City of Bowie Museums needed someone [...]
Sealing Historic House Windows
One of the members of the historic house list serv posted the following question recently. She wrote “I work at an historic home from the [...]
Tennessee Museums Earn StEPs Certificates
On November 19, I was pleased to present several of our local StEPs participants with Bronze and Silver certificates at a special celebration in Nashville. [...]