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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 [...]
Visitor Experience Re-Vision
In fall 2013, with essential support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, President Lincoln’s Cottage launched the Visitor [...]
Dear Boston: Messages from the Marathon Memorial
Dear Boston: Messages from the Marathon Memorial was a 3,600-square-foot temporary exhibition held at the Boston Public Library from April [...]
History smArts
History smArts is a museum/school partnership that offers interdisciplinary in-school experiences for Kentucky students in kindergarten through eighth grade. By [...]
Alabama Voices
The Alabama Voices exhibit is the cornerstone of the redesigned Museum of Alabama, located at the Alabama Department of Archives [...]
The Emotional Foundation of a Membership
At the top of your spinal column, there is a walnut-sized region of the brain called the amygdala, which is commonly called the “old brain” [...]
Context for History Is Not Comfortable
Prior to agreeing to reprint my "History Is Not Comfortable" article here on SMOC, I asked if I could also write a post that gave [...]
History Is Not Comfortable
What's It Like To Be Transgendered in Morrison County, MN? Exhibit by Morrison County Historical Society, 2012. What started as a blog post [...]
Education Department Organizational Charts
Our colleague Sheri Levinsky Raskin (Board Member - President at New York City Museum Educators Roundtable) has sent the query below and I thought the [...]
Site Rentals: The Challenging Intersection of Mission and Money
Robert H. Smith Visitor Education Center, President Lincoln's Cottage Contributed by Sahand Miraminy, Events and Programs Coordinator at President Lincoln's Cottage Museums and [...]
An Intern’s Experience
I wanted to share one of our intern's experience with the community. After writing his history of the Peloponnesian War, the ancient Greek historian Thucydides [...]