2016 Annual Meeting Wrap-Up: Session Recordings, Photos, Takeaways, and More
First of all, thank you. Thank you to our program committee, the host committee and local institutions, our onsite volunteers, speakers, tour [...]
Little Fish, Big Pond: One Small Museum Curator’s Conference Experience
Downtown Charlevoix, MI Jacob Thomas was awarded a Small Museums Scholarship to attend the 2016 AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting. You can learn [...]
The Self-Directed Nature of Interpretation
This article was originally published in the Spring 2015 issue of History News magazine. You can read the article, which is part of a larger [...]
Castle on the Cove: the Connecticut State Prison and Wethersfield
Castle on the Cove explores the Connecticut State Prison while it operated in Wethersfield between 1827 and 1963 and its [...]
RACE Project at History Colorado
On September 20, 2014, the History Colorado Center brought the traveling exhibit RACE: Are We So Different? to Denver for [...]
Voices of Wartime: Telluride During World War II
Voices of Wartime explored how a global conflict affected the everyday lives of those living in the small, isolated mining [...]
Scandal! Vice, Crime, and Morality in Montréal
Based on extensive documentary research and a wide‐ranging collection of personal accounts from Montrealers from the era along with comments [...]
Paying it Forward…
Any worker in a small museum can find an excuse not to participate in professional development opportunities. “I don’t have enough time,” or “They can’t [...]
Why Am I an AASLH Individual Member?
As you may know, this blog is an initiative of AASLH's Educators and Interpreters Committee. Our mission is to address the needs of educators and [...]
Growing Your Social Media Presence
Looking for ways to increase interactions with your organization's Facebook friends? Read on!
What I’m Looking For… (thoughts from an 11-year-old museum visitor)
Slave pen at the Freedom Center The Ed/Interpreters Affinity Committee asked for some input from the committee on what we like when we visit [...]
A Special Kind of Leader: Small Museum Leadership Characteristics
Leadership is leadership, but an argument can be made that being the leader of a small museum requires a special set of leadership characteristics.
Smarter Approaches Toward Collecting
Museum workers often feel they must preserve the past at all costs. We may have noble intentions, but we also face a stark reality: that [...]