Nine Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in September
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards program designed specifically [...]
Advocacy Alert: IMLS Reauthorization Introduced in Congress
IMLS Reauthorization Introduced in Congress Contact Your Senators Today Last week, Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) introduced S. 3391, the Museum and Library [...]
Change and Grow or Shut Your Doors: A Volunteer-Run Museum’s Conference Takeaway
Kathy McDonald, President and Curator of the Sebastian Area Historical Society, was awarded a scholarship to attend the 2016 AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting. You can [...]
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 [...]
Greeneville-Greene County History Museum Recognized for StEPs Achievements by Local News
AASLH Member Since 1995 The Greeneville-Greene County History Museum was featured in an article in local paper The Greeneville Sun. The article, [...]
38th Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan
This project brought an 1841 whaleship and accompanying outdoor exhibit to historic New England ports to raise awareness of maritime [...]
SubUrbanisms: Casino Company Town/ China Town
SubUrbanisms documents the development of a suburban Chinatown surrounding the Mohegan Sun casino in Connecticut and how workers, many recent [...]
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 [...]
Collecting Memories from Visitors
This is an expanded version of a post that originally appeared on the blog EngagingPlaces, which regularly shares news, ideas, and opinions about connecting people to [...]
“Honk for History” OR “Want Truth? Get History.”
Do we need a brand for history? I just attended an UnConference Session at the American Alliance of Museums Conference in Baltimore, where a group [...]
Pinterested Yet?
If you haven’t yet fallen under the spell of Pinterest yourself, it might be easy to overlook the possibilities of this simple social bookmarker. But [...]