Affiliations has gone mobile!
New for the 2014 Affiliations National Conference is a mobile app to keep all conference activities at your fingertips. Access all the information you need during the conference on your smartphones and devices. This new feature is generously provided by CrowdTorch from Cvent. The app will include an online agenda and a note section that allows […]
The Evolution of a Dino Hall
On April 28, 2014, the National Museum of Natural History’s Fossil Hall closed to the public to begin a 5-year renovation. The Hall will undergo the largest and most complex renovation in the Museum’s history. The new exhibition will showcase the Museum’s unrivaled fossil collection and present the most current scientific research. New fossil displays and […]
kudos Affiliates! for May 2014
Congratulations Affiliates on your spring accomplishments! FUNDING Birthplace of Country Music Museum (Bristol, TN) announced a $100,000 gift by Bank of Tennessee as part of the museum’s “Name Your Seat” fundraising campaign. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced a partnership with Mystic Seaport (Mystic, CT) to support the upcoming journey of the Charles W. Morgan, which will sail […]
affiliates in the news
Congrats to these Affiliates making news! Each month we highlight Affiliate-Smithsonian and Affiliate-Affiliate collaborations making headlines. If you have a clipping highlighting a collaboration with the Smithsonian or with a fellow Affiliate you’d like to have considered for the Affiliate blog, please contact Elizabeth Bugbee. Ohio History Connection (Columbus, Ohio) Ohio Historical Society Changes Its Name To Ohio History […]
sites corner: traveling exhibits in your neighborhood
Looking for an opportunity to highlight your status as a Smithsonian Affiliate? Consider hosting a traveling exhibition from SITES. Regardless of your museum’s size, budget, or discipline, there’s a SITES exhibition that’s just right for you. Here’s what’s new: Brand New Exhibitions: Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation Have your organization launch the national tour of […]
coming up in affiliateland in May 2014
As summer approaches, things are heating up in Affiliateland! WYOMING Several staff members from the Buffalo Bill Center of the West will speak during a day-long conference at the Smithsonian on 300 Years of Innovation in Scotland and America, coming from Cody, 5.1. Affiliations director Harold Closter will be speaking at the Colorado-Wyoming Museum Association meeting […]
adventures with affiliations!
Special thanks for this guest post to Rachel Brummond. Rachel interned with the Affiliations office this spring and helped us build our e-marketing for the Smithsonian Affiliations Membership Program. Rachel is wrapping up her Junior year at Luther College in Iowa with a Major in Management/Political Science. Many, many thanks for everything Rachel! I have dreamt […]
Batter Up! It’s Opening Day in Affiliateland
“Take me out to the ball game, Take me out with the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack, I don’t care if I never get back, Let me root, root, root for the home team, If they don’t win it’s a shame. For it’s one, two, three strikes, you’re out, At the old […]
Raising History’s Profile
In 2013, a group of public historians, preservationists, educators, historic site managers, and museum leaders got together and asked, “How can we re-brand history and show that it is crucial to our nation’s future?” Thus was born the History Relevance Campaign, a grassroots movement made up of public historians who aim to show why the study […]
affiliates in the news!
Congrats to these Affiliates making news! Each month we highlight Affiliate-Smithsonian and Affiliate-Affiliate collaborations making headlines. If you have a clipping highlighting a collaboration with the Smithsonian or with a fellow Affiliate you’d like to have considered for the Affiliate blog, please contact Elizabeth Bugbee. National World War II Museum (New Orleans, Louisiana) World War II Museum’s exhibit shows […]
kudos Affiliates! April 2014
Affiliates are bursting into spring with impressive awards and recognition. FUNDING The National Civil War Museum (Harrisburg, PA) has received a $30,000 grant from the Kunkle-Rutherford Foundation to pay for upgrades to the museum’s galleries audio system. The George Gund Foundation awarded a $150,000 grant to the Western Reserve Historical Society (Cleveland, OH) for the restoration […]
Coming Up in Affiliateland, April 2014
Spring has sprung and Affiliate collaborations are in full bloom in April! FLORIDA American Art Museum curator E. Carmen Ramos gives a talk on What is Latino About American Art? at the Frost Art Museum. The talk coincides with the opening of the Smithsonian’s traveling exhibition, Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, in Miami, […]
Young Historians, Living Histories- Today’s Stop: Cleveland, OH!
Special thanks to Paula Lee, Smithsonian Affiliations intern, for this guest post. This is the fourth of a five-part blog series she is writing as part of the Young Historians, Living Histories (YHLH) collaboration with the Asian Pacific American Center and our Affiliate network. In Cleveland, students began an early session of preliminary interviews because practice after-all makes […]
Young Historians, Living Histories- Today’s Stop: Honolulu, HI!
Special thanks to Paula Lee, Smithsonian Affiliations intern, for this guest post. This is the third of a five-part blog series she is writing as part of the Young Historians, Living Histories (YHLH) collaboration with the Asian Pacific American Center and our Affiliate network. As we travel west to hear from our Affiliates at Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl […]
Take Off with Shuttle Programs
The era of the space shuttle may have drawn to a close, but shuttles are finding new life in education at museums across the country. The retirement of the shuttle fleet presents unique educational and collaborative opportunities for a greater community of organizations to explore space history through STEM programs. The Smithsonian and Smithsonian Affiliations community […]
Affiliates in the news!
The Children’s Museum of the Upstate (Greenville, South Carolina) Article- Children’s Museum partners with Smithsonian: Partnership helps museum expand reach, focus on STEM growth The Children’s Museum of the Upstate has been named a Smithsonian Affiliate, becoming the only children’s museum in the nation to partner with the century and a half old institution that […]
