What do sheep and baseballs have in common? This is one of the many intriguing questions answered in the new permanent exhibition, Textile Revolution: An Exploration through Space and Time at the American Textile History Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts. On June 19, the Museum cut the ribbon on their own revolution. Having been closed for […]
A masterpiece by one of America’s most renowned 19th-century landscape artists will soon make its way west from the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., to the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, the only Smithsonian Affiliate in Wyoming. Thomas Moran’s The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone (1893 – 1901) will be on loan from […]
Affiliates provided alot of insight at the recent AAM meeting in Philadelphia. Cassie Chinn, Deputy Executive Director of the Wing Luke Asian Museum in Seattle, presented in a session titled Community-Curated Exhibit Programs. She described how the process of incorporating the community into every exhibition process is time-consuming and complicated, but that the Museum has made that […]
Special thanks to Mike Irwin, Distance Learning Coordinator at the Durham Museum in Omaha, for this guest post. Group Programs Manager, Molly Gruber walked into the Distant Learning Coordinator’s office at the Durham Museum and asked, “Can we connect girl scouts with experts to talk about the security of rare and priceless art objects?” Two months […]
Ever wish you could go to one place to search across the whole Smithsonian for objects? We want that for you too! and we’re getting closer and closer. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden was just added to the Smithsonian’s Cross Searching Center, along with the great collections from the National Postal Museum, the National […]
I just got back from a road trip to Pennsylvania, and what struck me with all the Affiliates I visited there was the various and creative ways they are all collaborating, with each other and with their greater communities. In Hershey… The Antique Automobile Club of America Museum partnered a while ago with the Museum of […]
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