Public History in 2036
There’s a great conference out at UMass Amherst next weekend, September 23-24, taking a look at the future of the public history field. Nina Simon, author of The Participatory Museum and the blog Museum 2.0 will be doing a workshop on Saturday afternoon. Check out the program and registration information here. [PDF]
More museum blogs!
First things first: if you’re not reading Museum 2.0, you should be. Next, check out Nina Simon’s recent post, Six Museum-Related Blogs You Might Not Know About That Are Really Good. One of the blogs is local – Thinking about Exhibits is written by Ed Rodley, an exhibit developer at Boston’s Museum of Science. This [...]
Scholarships for AAM 2010
Do you want to go to the American Association of Museums Annual Meeting this spring? Do you find yourself in the quandary of graduate students everywhere – the spirit is willing, but the checking account is weak? Nina Simon at Museum 2.0 posted today about scholarship opportunities available from NAME, the National Association for Museum [...]