Kudos Affiliates! October 2018
/in Uncategorized /by Aaron GlavasCongratulations to these Affiliates on their recent accomplishments! Do you have kudos to share? Please send potential entries to Aaron Glavas, GlavasC@si.edu. FUNDING The Dane G. Hansen Foundation has awarded the Cosmosphere (Hutchinson, KS) a $50,000 grant to bring the science center’s outreach programs to rural schools in Northwest Kansas. Programs supported by the grant will serve […]
Coming Up in Affiliateland in October 2018
/in Uncategorized /by Jennifer BrundageShark girls, genomes and zombies… oh my! It’s October in Affiliateland. CONNECTICUT Mallory Warner, Museum Specialist from the National Museum of American History, will give a talk on women’s medical uniforms in World War I at the Connecticut Historical Society in Hartford, 10.11. CALIFORNIA LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes will host a workshop for […]
Kudos Affiliates! September 2018
/in Affiliates in the News, Kudos, Uncategorized /by Aaron GlavasCongratulations to these Affiliates on their recent accomplishments! Do you have kudos to share? Please send potential entries to Aaron Glavas, GlavasC@si.edu. FUNDING In the final round of fiscal year 2018 funding, nine Affiliates received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of a $43.1 million award to 218 projects across the […]
Coming Up in Affiliateland in September 2018
/in Uncategorized /by Jennifer BrundageLet’s get back to school and back to collaborating! NATIONWIDE Over 100 Affiliates will take part in Smithsonian magazine Museum Day. Many of them will host screenings of original programs from the Smithsonian Channel as part of the day’s programming. Check here for participating Affiliates taking part on 9.22. FLORIDA The Museum of Arts and Sciences will host […]
Coming up in Affiliateland in August
/in Uncategorized /by Elizabeth BugbeeBringing you all the Smithsonian happenings in your neighborhood! CALIFORNIA The USS Hornet-Sea, Air and Space Museum hosts the exhibition Mail Call, created by the National Postal Museum and organized for travel by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, in Alameda 8.4. MARYLAND The College Park Aviation Museum celebrates the 100th anniversary of airmail with a community […]
Kudos Affiliates! August 2018
/in Affiliates in the News, enewsletter feature, Kudos, Uncategorized, You Heard It Here First /by Aaron GlavasCongratulations to these Affiliates on their recent accomplishments! Do you have a kudos to share? Please send potential kudos to Aaron Glavas, GlavasC@si.edu. Funding The Nissan Foundation awarded $730,000 in grants to 29 nonprofit organizations for its 2018 grant cycle including a $10,000 award to the Arab American National Museum (Dearborn, MI) for its Global Fridays series. Since […]
Smithsonian Learning Lab Webinar: Creating National History Day Collections
/in enewsletter feature, Learning Lab, Uncategorized, You Heard It Here First /by Elizabeth BugbeeFor the past two years Smithsonian Learning Lab has been a tool for curating topic ideas for students participating in National History Day (NHD) research projects. The Learning Lab team, along with educators from NHD and the National Endowment for the Humanities, will hold an online session on Thursday, August 9 at 4 pm ET […]
Part 3: Using Collections to Think About Immigration with the Smithsonian Learning Lab
/in General, Learning Lab, Resources, Uncategorized, You Heard It Here First /by Elizabeth BugbeeAfter visiting three Affiliate communities in 2018, the staff at the Smithsonian Learning Lab wrapped-up their Teacher Creativity Studios at the City of Austin Asian American Resource Center (AARC), a Smithsonian Affiliate in Austin, Texas. As mentioned in Part 1, the goal was to increase digital access to museum collections and inspire students to investigate the world […]
Part 2: Using Collections to Think About Immigration with the Smithsonian Learning Lab
/in Learning Lab, Resources, Uncategorized, You Heard It Here First /by Elizabeth BugbeeIn Part 1 of our Smithsonian Learning Lab series we took you to the Tsongas Industrial History Center at the Lowell National Historical Park, a Smithsonian Affiliate in Lowell, Massachusetts, where teachers were exploring the question “Who belongs?” (You can read the full blog here.) This time we’re headed to the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian […]
coming up in Affiliateland in July 2018
/in enewsletter feature /by Jennifer BrundageSummer is heating up with Affiliate activity coast to coast! NATIONWIDE Eight Affiliates will be hosting interns from the Smithsonian Latino Center’s Young Ambassadors Program this summer, including the Adler Planetarium (Chicago); California Science Center (Los Angeles); Fort Worth Museum of Science and History (Fort Worth); History Colorado (Denver); HistoryMiami (Miami); Museum of Latin American […]
Kudos Affiliates! July 2018
/in Kudos, Uncategorized /by Aaron GlavasCongratulations to these Affiliates on their recent accomplishments! Do you have a kudos to share? Please send potential kudos to Aaron Glavas, GlavasC@si.edu. Funding In pursuit of its commitment to advance the creative capacity of people and communities across the nation, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced its second round of funding for […]
Smithsonian Announces Director for Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and Smithsonian Affiliations
/in Uncategorized, You Heard It Here First /by Elizabeth BugbeeToday we are pleased to announce an important step in strengthening our content and peer-outreach capabilities. As of June 7, we have aligned the work of two organizations into one management structure called the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and Smithsonian Affiliations. This unit will be overseen by Myriam Springuel. As many of you know, […]
Part 1: Using Collections to Think About Immigration with the Smithsonian Learning Lab
/in Learning Lab, Road Reports, Uncategorized, You Heard It Here First /by Elizabeth BugbeeIn 2017-2018 a collaboration among Smithsonian Affiliations, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, and the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access brought the Teacher Creativity Studios: Fostering Global Competence in the Classroom project to 3 Affiliate communities. The nationwide professional development project for educators is designed to develop new instructional materials and content highlighting […]
¡Escuchame! 5 Questions With Dr. Kathleen Franz
/in enewsletter feature, Resources, Uncategorized, You Heard It Here First /by Elizabeth BugbeeThe Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is working on a new initiative, Escuchame: The History of Spanish Language Broadcasting in the U.S. The museum has rich collections related to television, but few that tell the story of Spanish-language broadcasting in the U.S. This initiative will document stories from early Telemundo and Univision stations as well as […]
Kudos Affiliates! June 2018
/in enewsletter feature, Kudos /by Aaron GlavasCongratulations to these Affiliates on their recent accomplishments! Do you have a kudos to share? Please send potential kudos to Aaron Glavas, GlavasC@si.edu. Funding Conner Prairie (Fishers, Indiana) announced a partnership with Ritz Charles to invest approximately $3 million to renovate and expand Eli Lilly’s historic Chinese House. Support for the project includes a $500,000 pledge […]
Coming Up in Affiliateland in June 2018
/in Uncategorized /by Jennifer BrundageARIZONA The Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum will open the Smithsonian exhibition Water/Ways which focuses on the relationships between people and water, in Bisbee, 6.2. PENNSYLVANIA The Heinz History Center hosts History on Tap featuring a talk by Theresa McCulla, historian of the American Brewing History Initiative at the National Museum of American History, on […]
