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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 [...]
The SCARY Truth Facing Historic Houses
The ghost of Christmas Yet to Be brings Scrooge all of the bad news in Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. Well, today [...]
I Remember When Part 10
Fun with “C:\>” In the olden days (before Bill Gates introduced the Windows operating system and became a multi-billionaire), it [...]
A Night at the Museum: Public-Private Collaboration Done Right
I was thrilled to attend the opening of American Enterprise, the new business exhibit that opened at the Smithsonian’s National [...]
National History Day: Leadership and Legacy in History
In June, I had the opportunity to work with National History Day staff at the National Contest in College Park, [...]
Bringing in Other Disciplines to Your Historic Site
Recently I had the opportunity to meet with Toivo Motter, Director of Education at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens in Akron, Ohio. As with my [...]
Learning About Museum Classroom Placement
I don’t know how many conversations I’ve been involved with over the years with colleagues collectively lamenting the state of their museum classroom, out-of-date equipment, [...]
State Museum Association Conferences – For Connections and Conversations, Too!
Museum associations offer all sorts of services – training, newsletters, advocacy, salary surveys, preservation supplies discounts, technical assistance, site visits, and more – but the most important service they offer is access to your nearby peers.
A Parent By Any Other Name…Part 2
As Paul noted in Part 1 of this blog, every opportunity in an academic museum comes with a trade-off. I, too, initially basked in the [...]
“Rethinking the Rembrandt Rule” Meets the Real World
In his 2007 piece Rethinking the Rembrandt Rule, Jim Vaughan put forward the radical idea that this “rule” might not actually make a lot of [...]
AASLH and AAM Sign Statement of Collaboration
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: October 30, 2012 Contact: Cherie Cook, [email protected] Associations Will Work Together to Raise Awareness of National Standards (Nashville, TN) - At [...]