November is another busy month in Affiliateland! ILLINOIS Sousa and His League of Players: America’s Music and the Golden Age of Baseball opens at the Sousa Archives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in Champaign, 11.1. NEW YORK: The Smithsonian American Art Museum loans a 1966 Charmion von Wiegand painting to the Rubin Museum of […]
Always nice to see bright spots around the network – great job and congratulations to all! The Kresge Foundation of Troy, Michigan, recently awarded the National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium (Dubuque, Iowa) a $1 million challenge grant for the construction of the Diamond Jo National River Center. The challenge was contingent on the museum raising the […]
It’s a chilly, rainy, autumn day along the east coast, but that’s not stopping Smithsonian Affiliations National Outreach Manager Jennifer Brundage! She’s on her way to visit our Affiliates in the New York- New Jersey area and participate in some really exciting events this weekend. A golden Monopoly set, a Chinese pavilion, and a Tibetan Shrine Room are […]
Special thanks to Alma Douglas, Smithsonian Affiliations National Outreach Manager, for this post. “What did you people do before the internet?” It was a question that produced a hilarious moment for Smithsonian staff this summer when asked by one of this year’s young ambassadors, hosted by the Smithsonian Latino Center. Visiting one of our Affiliates, the Museum […]
Special thanks to Alma Douglas, Smithsonian Affiliations National Outreach Manager, for this post. It took several years of negotiations to determine the feasibility of loaning a 135 year-old skeleton of a horse to the International Museum of the Horse in Lexington, KY, but it finally happened in August. Lexington, a beautiful bay, was one of America’s and some […]
Congratulations to these Affiliates making headlines this week! Discovery Science Center (Santa Ana, CA) Best of Orange County 2010 Winners. READ MORE North Carolina Museum of History (Raleigh, NC) There’s the George Washington made famous in the Gilbert Stuart portrait found in many elementary schools and, in engraved fashion, on the $1-dollar bill: a severe man, […]
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