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What You Can Learn from 7 Theme Fusion Success Stories
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Training Future Leaders: Lessons Learned from the National Guard Memorial Museum’s Intern Program
Photo via www.ngef.org The National Guard Memorial Museum is a 6,000 square foot series of galleries located in Washington, D.C., [...]
Natural History Specimens and Nomenclature 4.0
When Nomenclature was first written it was designed to represent objects that are man-made. So, how do natural history collections fall into [...]
Blogging Public History: An Interview with Zac Cowsert, Civil War Blogger and Emerging History Professional
I find that many Emerging History Professionals (EHPs) these days have blogs of some sort. They traditionally consist of self-promoting posts with [...]
Andrew Jackson: Born for a Storm
Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage unveiled its newest exhibition, Andrew Jackson: Born for a Storm on January 8, 2015. This exhibition, timed [...]
Woodrow Wilson Family Home: A Museum of Reconstruction in Columbia & Richland County
In 2005, Historic Columbia closed the Woodrow Wilson Family Home historic site due to extensive structural issues. $3.1 million in [...]
The Lost Museum
Public Humanities graduate students at Brown University re-imagined and resurrected the Jenks Museum, a natural history collection that existed on [...]
Dressing the Bed: A Living Demonstration of 18th Century Needlework
The Betsy Ross House is unique among peer museums nationally in its interpretation of the life of a working-class, eighteenth-century [...]
Free Collections Management Webinar Tomorrow
The Small Museums Committee of AASLH is pleased to be partnering with the Connecting to Collections Online Community to present a collections management webinar! Essential [...]
West Baton Rouge Museum Director Honored by Girl Scouts of America
BATON ROUGE — Girl Scouts Louisiana East is holding its 2013 Women of Distinction awards dinner and champagne reception, honoring nine community leaders, on Friday, [...]
AASLH – More than a Conference
Mark Sundlov and Jason Crabill sharing a toast from AASLH Annual Meeting 2013. "You came up in conversation tonight and 'the crew' is [...]
More Texas Tales – A Tale from Canyon, Texas: The Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum
One of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum’s most popular artifacts isn't inside at all. The T Anchor Ranch Headquarters, the oldest surviving Anglo structure in the [...]
By and For Small Museums
In November 2008, a Request for Proposal, was sent out to members of the museum community, asking for help in a ground-breaking new project: The [...]
Using Jazz Improvisation As A Model For Developing Exhibits
Jazz improvisation begins with a melodic phrase, then it invites a response and builds on a theme. Sometimes pleasing, sometimes cacophonous, the result is rooted in the magic of call and response. Think of it as history in action.