Entries by Elizabeth Bugbee

New! PAL Talks- distance learning for Affiliates

Smithsonian Affiliations introduces PAL Talks (Partnering with Affiliates for Learning)!  Refresh your knowledge or learn something new about being an Affiliate and collaborating with the Smithsonian in webinars and video chats about membership, branding, artifact loans and more.  Our successful pilot using Vidyo at the Mobile App Clinic last month showed us that Affiliates are eager […]

Repurposing the Museum: Using Digital Tools to Re-engage Young People

On Tuesday, June 11, we’re kicking-off our 2013 Affiliations National Conference with an inspiring keynote address from Stephen Brown, President and Executive Producer at Mobile Digital Arts and General Manager of the New Learning Institute.    Conference attendees will hear Brown discuss the ways museums can be repurposed by young people with the new digital tools at […]

Young Historians, Living Histories

      Young Historians, Living Histories is a collaborative educational program that draws on the exhibition, I Want the Wide American Earth: An Asian Pacific American Story, from the Smithsonian’s Asian Pacific American Center (APAC). Smithsonian Affiliations and APAC have partnered in a grant collaboration and have been awarded funds from the Smithsonian Office of the […]

affiliates in the news! February-March 2013

International Museum of Art and Science (McAllen, Texas) IMAS hosting traveling exhibit channeling 600-year-old Chinese pavilion  Senator John Heinz History Center (Pittsburgh, Pa.) Heinz History Center exhibit examines ‘1968: The Year that Rocked America’  Riverside Metropolitan Museum (Riverside, Calif.) RIVERSIDE: Smithsonian scientist to visit museum  Carolinas Aviation Museum (Charlotte, N.C.) NC museum will receive Smithsonian […]

Affiliates in the news! January-February 2013

Each month we’re highlighting Affiliate-Smithsonian collaborations making headlines. Congrats to these Affiliates making news this month! If you have a clipping you’d like to have considered for the Affiliate blog, please contact Elizabeth Bugbee. Birthplace of Country Music Alliance (Bristol, Tenn.) Astrophotography students to exhibit work, share enthusiasm about VI and BCM-hosted program American Textile History Museum […]