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Meet the Staff–Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens/Akron Public Schools Place-Based Education Curricula
From October 2014 to November 2015, 736 fifth grade students participated in “Meet the Staff,” an experiential learning curriculum created in partnership [...]
Carillon Brewing Company
Carillon Brewing Company (CBC) is the first licensed production brewery in a museum. Dayton History’s newest project, this 10,000 square foot living [...]
The Old North State at War: The North Carolina Civil War Atlas
The Old North State at War: The North Carolina Civil War Atlas is a comprehensive study of the impact of the war [...]
3 AASLH Members Honored as Finalists for IMLS National Medal
The Institute of Museum and Library Services today announced 30 finalists for the 2016 National Medal for Museum and Library [...]
Why Focusing on Visitors Should Be Part of the Exhibit Planning Process
Many of us have played a role in creating a program or exhibit that we thought was going to be [...]
AASLH’s “Interpreting LGBT History” Wins 2016 NCPH Book Award
Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites (part of the AASLH Interpreting History Series) has been selected as the winner [...]
New Report Reveals Each Generation Less Likely to Visit Historic Sites Than the Last
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences’ Humanities Indicators (HI) project released a new report this morning on historic site [...]
Cooking up History
In more than 15 years of working in museums, from art museums to historic sites, I’ve grown used to artifacts having, shall we say, interesting [...]
How to Use Nomenclature 3.0 – Toys and Models
Toys and models pose a challenge for many cataloguers. It is obvious that miniature representations of objects do not have the same function as (and [...]
Hidden Collections Rock!
Minnesota Historical SocietyThe headline grabbed me instantly, "Tiny Minnesota museum's canoe a 1,000-year-old historic find." I absolutely love to see these stories. Often the stories [...]
Top 10 Reasons why you should be in Little Rock this June!
In case you didn’t know it, from June 2-5, 2014, the Presidential Sites and Libraries community will host a conference at the Clinton Presidential Center [...]
Pop-Up Museum at Eastern State Penitentiary: Temporary Exhibit of Rare Prison Artifacts
AASLH Member Since 2000 Pop-Up Museum The archives of Eastern State Penitentiary are packed with historic treasures that the public rarely sees. Thousands of photographs, [...]
Barned Again, Re-purposing a Historic Structure
Close the eye a moment and look at the picture fancy paints. Every field in Georgia is there, every field in the South is there. [...]