Seven Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in July
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 [...]
PokéWHAT?! National Trust for Historic Preservation Staff Provide a Pokémon Go Primer
As the Pokémon Go craze was taking hold of communities and blowing up in the press last week, Small Museum Committee member, [...]
Pittock Mansion Historic House Museum Sees Record-Breaking Attendance of 100,000 + Annual Visitors
“At a time when many historic house museums across the country are experiencing declining visitation, Portland, Oregon's Pittock Mansion has set a [...]
AASLH Members Receive More Than $1 Million in Grants from NEH and IMLS
This summer, more than thirty AASLH member institutions were awarded prestigious grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) [...]
Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts
In its deepest forms, historical thinking is neither a natural process nor something that springs automatically from psychological development. Its [...]
Coalition to Advance Learning Focus Group
You’re Invited! A focus group on Continuing Education/Professional Development needs across the Archives, Library, and Museum communities will be held [...]
Hang Out With the Ladies at the AASLH Annual Meeting
The AASLH Women’s History Affinity Group is very excited to make its first public appearance at the 2015 Annual Meeting [...]
“… or a building full of old stuff” – Part IV
The school tours are the biggest yearly program for the museum. The museum director pushed the idea, but that's no surprise; he was a teacher [...]
Outreach Profile: National History Day
As schools grapple with limited field trip budgets, museums are looking for new ways to engage with K-12 audiences. “Outreach” is the new buzzword. If [...]
StEPs to Deaccessioning Education
We’ve all been there…that moment when you find something truly strange hidden away for years in your museum’s collection. Maybe the object doesn't fit within [...]
Selecting Sessions at the Annual Meeting
If you're an AASLH member, perhaps you've already received the preliminary program for the 2012 Annual Meeting, to be held in Salt Lake City. There [...]
Approaching Docent Training
This summer we are completely overhauling our brick-and-mortar historical museum. When we reopen after Thanksgiving we will have three new and three dramatically reimagined permanent [...]
Museums…Light Duty?
I work for a small museum owned by the city of Las Cruces, New Mexico, so when money is available, our facilities department provides maintenance and repair [...]