Kudos- July/August 2016
Congrats to these Affiliates on their recent accomplishments! Funding The San Diego Air & Space Museum (San Diego, CA) recently selected 13 graduating seniors from San Diego County high schools to receive a total of $51,000 in scholarships. These scholarships are awarded annually to inspire young people to tackle the challenges of the science, technology, engineering […]
what’s going on in Affiliateland this summer?
Short answer – A LOT! SOUTH DAKOTA The South Dakota State Historical Society featured Searching for Life in the Solar System, a web program from the National Air and Space Museum on 7.9. COLORADO The Denver Art Museum opened the Rhythm and Roots: Dance in American Art exhibition, featuring artworks on loan from the National Portrait […]
Coming up in affiliateland: June 2016
Texas The SITES exhibition Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program, 1942-1964 opens at the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center, part of the City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department, 6.4. South Dakota “Smithsonian Saturday” moves to Sunday for this online program at the South Dakota State Historical Society. The rebroadcast will feature the life […]
Affiliates in the news: June edition
Congrats to these Affiliates making news! If you have a clipping that highlights a collaboration with the Smithsonian or with a fellow Affiliate, or a clipping that demonstrates leadership in education, innovation, and arts/culture/history/science you’d like to have considered for the Affiliate blog, please contact Elizabeth Bugbee Mercer Museum & Fonthill Castle (Doylestown, PA) Doylestown museums now Smithsonian […]
coming up in Affiliateland: May 2016
Washington, D.C. The National Inventors Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will take place at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, 5.5. Smithsonian Affiliations welcomes staff from Affiliate organizations at a reception celebrating our 20th Anniversary on the first day of the American Alliance of Museums Annual Meeting, 5.26 Florida Maria del Carmen […]
SITES: 65 Years and Counting
Special thanks to our colleagues at the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) for this guest post. Since our founding in 1951, we have traveled over 1,500 exhibitions to more than 13,300 host venues, and we’re still counting. When was the last time you hosted a SITES exhibition? Let us know of your interest in […]
kudos affiliates! may edition
Congratulations to these Affiliates on their accomplishments! Have an award, a funding announcement, or significant staff change you’d like to see here? Email us! Funding Three charitable foundations gifts totaling $650,000 were awarded to Union Station, Kansas City, Inc.’s expansion and bridge project. The Gary Dickinson Family Charitable Foundation donated $250,000. The Sunderland Foundation donated $250,000. […]
Affiliates in the news: May edition
Congrats to these Affiliates making news! If you have a clipping that highlights a collaboration with the Smithsonian or with a fellow Affiliate, or a clipping that demonstrates leadership in education, innovation, and arts/culture/history/science you’d like to have considered for the Affiliate blog, please contact Elizabeth Bugbee National Jazz Museum in Harlem (New York, NY) National Jazz Museum […]
YWCA Bristol TechGYRLS: Radio Stars at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Special thanks to Rene Rodgers, curator of exhibits and publications at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum in Bristol, Virginia, for this guest post. As a new museum, this past September was the Birthplace of Country Music Museum‘s first time participating in Smithsonian magazine’s Museum Day Live! So we were excited when a special Museum Day […]
Affiliates in the news: April edition
Congrats to these Affiliates making news! If you have a clipping that highlights a collaboration with the Smithsonian or with a fellow Affiliate, or a clipping that demonstrates leadership in education, innovation, and arts/culture/history/science you’d like to have considered for the Affiliate blog, please contact Elizabeth Bugbee. Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts (Alta Loma, […]
kudos affiliates! for april 2016
Congratulations to these Affiliates on their spring accomplishments! The Goppert Foundation of Kansas City is contributing $250,000 to an expansion and bridge project underway at Union Station. The gift brings the station closer to meeting its fundraising goal for the $7.5 million project. Construction is underway on a vehicular and pedestrian bridge which will allow more […]
coming up in Affiliateland in April 2016
PENNSYLVANIA Rex Ellis, associate director for curatorial affairs at the National Museum of African American History and Culture will deliver the keynote talk at the Shifting Narratives symposium, to be held at the African American Museum in Philadelphia in partnership with the National Park Service, 4.16. GEORGIA Smithsonian staff from the National Zoo, National Portrait […]
Get to know one of our Affiliate partners: the Conner House, the heart of Conner Prairie
Our diverse network of Smithsonian Affiliates helps connect local stories to our shared national history. With more than 200 Affiliates in 46 states, Puerto Rico and Panama, each has a special story to share about what makes them unique to our network. Here’s one of those stories. Special thanks to Duane Brodt, Director of Public […]
“lets do history” with Oklahoma History Center
Special thanks to Sarah Dumas, Director of Education at the Oklahoma History Center, for this guest post. On February 11 educators from the Oklahoma History Center (OHC) were invited by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History to participate in its Let’s Do History Tour in Norman, Oklahoma. OHC Education Department staff provided a one-hour presentation about […]
way to go Affiliates! kudos for March 2016
Congrats to these Affiliates on their recent accomplishments. FUNDING Pennsylvania’s Northampton County Council awarded more than $480,000 in grants raised from hotel room taxes to a variety of organizations, including the National Canal Museum, Historic Bethlehem Museums and Sites, and the National Museum of Industrial History to promote tourism, historical sites and cultural events in the region. […]
what’s up in Affiliateland in March 2016
CONNECTICUT Roger Connor, Curator at the National Air and Space Museum, will present a talk on “By the Stars to Victory: Making Aerial Celestial Navigation Practical Between the World Wars” as part of the Stars of the Smithsonian lecture series at Mystic Seaport in Mystic, 3.3. PENNSYLVANIA The traveling exhibition Toys of the ‘50s, ‘60s […]
