Summer is in full swing with great events at Affiliates! NATIONWIDE: The Smithsonian’s Latino Center hosts its Latino Young Ambassadors in June, which brings students to Washington, DC for a week of cultural enrichment programs. Following their Washington week, the Ambassadors will return to Affiliate sites for month-long internships in their home communities. Participating Affiliates include: Museum of […]
In keeping with this year’s education theme at the annual Smithsonian Affiliations National Conference, we’ll be hosting a series of roundtable discussions in a session titled “What’s the Big Idea: Revitalizing Education Through Partnership and Collaboration.” This dynamic session will follow a format well-known to most museum professionals. Smithsonian colleagues from across the Institution will present at […]
Sliding into summer with lots of activity! FLORIDA: The South Florida Museum opens SITES’ Hidden Life of Ants in Bradenton, 5/7. PENNSYLVANIA: Smithsonian researcher Warren Perry presents a lecture on “William E. Doster’s Defense of the Lincoln Conspirators” at the Historic Bethlehem Partnership in Bethlehem, 5/8. MONTANA: Dr. Rick Potts, Director of the Human Origins Program […]
More and more museums are exploring ways to use food and foodways as an extension of their missions, and as an additional pathway to community engagement. (Here’s an example, and what some Affiliates are doing.) Whether exploring historic and cultural traditions around food or promoting an agenda of sustainability, food is increasingly appearing in the repertoire […]
I have a confession to make. After 13 years in museum education, I have come to think of educational carts in the galleries as the Clydesdales of the field – the workhorses that are low-tech, straightforward, usually blue or made of sturdy metal. I fully embrace them as an effective “vehicle” to engage visitors in the galleries… […]
Congratulations to the College Park Aviation Museum on their 10th anniversary as a Smithsonian Affiliate! Since their joining the Affiliations Program in March 2001, the Museum has been active in bringing important artifacts, speakers, and exhibitions from the National Museum of Air and Space to College Park, Maryland. The Museum sits on the grounds of the […]
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