The AASLH, on top of things as always, has made it very easy to write in to your congressperson about the recent slash in funding for both the NEA and NEH: AASLH is a proud member of the National Humanities Alliance, and we are asking …
Get excited, because this is really, really cool, and it launches today. Historypin is a website that enables users to upload their own historical content – of any kind – and then tag it on Google Maps. It is then geo-cached and dated. You can …
Welcome to our weekly museums in the news roundup!
New York Museum Unveils Gaming Event
The Tangier museum offers unique look at island
ANNE WILKES TUCKER: Curator of Photography, Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Was Fort Worth museum’s statue hiding sordid sales history?
’17 Swedish Designers’ exhibit at Nordic Heritage Museum
Museum project may be a mix-up
Pittsburgh bike ‘hoarder’ opening museum, shop
Haunting Green-Roofed Museum in Palmiry Honors Polish Holocaust Victims
Travel Channel and Gaiam Release “Mysteries at the Museum Season 1”
Possible $25 fee for Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum outrages relatives of victims
Texas Fights to Save the Dinosaurs – the Footprints, That Is
Waynesboro ice plant to reopen as museum
New York City opens America’s first elevator museum
San Jose’s Tech Museum gets hacked
Rockwell Painting To Be Exhibited at The White House
Two Rivers museum, Target Corp. team up for national clothing line
This seems sadly apropos for a week in which funding for the NEA and NEH has been cut again. AAM is doing two free museum advocacy webinars next week. Two FREE Upcoming Advocacy Programs – July 12 and July 13 AAM will offer two FREE …
From NEDCC comes a really interesting-looking online course in the basics of preservation. At only $600, it’s actually relatively inexpensive in the grand scheme of things: Preservation 101: Preservation Basics for Paper and Media Collections The Online, Instructor-led Course Course Dates: January 12, 2012 – …
Okay, I get that fundraising and development isn’t everyone’s favorite topic in the nonprofit world, but it’s crucially important, especially in this day and age. AAM has partnered up with Alexander Haas fundraising counselors to present a series of three free webinars about how fundraising and development are changing for the years ahead.
There’s a full description and registration information on their website.