kudos Affiliates! for May 2014
/in Affiliates in the News, enewsletter feature, General, Uncategorized /by Elizabeth BugbeeCongratulations 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
/in Affiliates in the News, enewsletter feature, General, Uncategorized /by Elizabeth BugbeeCongrats 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
/in enewsletter feature, Exhibitions, General, Uncategorized /by Elizabeth BugbeeLooking 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
/in enewsletter feature, General, Uncategorized, You Heard It Here First /by Jennifer BrundageAs 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!
/in Affiliate Guest Authors, General, Uncategorized /by Elizabeth BugbeeSpecial 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
/in Exhibitions, General, Seriously Amazing, Uncategorized, You Heard It Here First /by Elizabeth Bugbee“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 Conference Ideas, enewsletter feature, General, Uncategorized /by Elizabeth BugbeeIn 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!
/in General, Uncategorized /by Elizabeth BugbeeCongrats 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
/in Affiliates in the News, enewsletter feature, General, Uncategorized, You Heard It Here First /by Elizabeth BugbeeAffiliates 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
/in enewsletter feature, General, Road Reports, Seriously Amazing, space shuttle, Uncategorized /by Jennifer BrundageSpring 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!
/in Affiliate Guest Authors, Affiliates in the News, General, Uncategorized /by Elizabeth BugbeeSpecial 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!
/1 Comment/in Affiliate Guest Authors, Affiliates in the News, General, Uncategorized /by Elizabeth BugbeeSpecial 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
/1 Comment/in Affiliates in the News, Behind the Scenes, Conference Ideas, Exhibitions, General, space shuttle, Uncategorized /by Laura HansenThe 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!
/in Affiliates in the News, General, Uncategorized /by Elizabeth BugbeeThe 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 […]
Crowdfunding + Tweetups. Yes. Those are real things.
/in Conference Ideas, enewsletter feature, General, Uncategorized /by Elizabeth BugbeeAnd museums are using them in new and unique ways to raise money and engage new audiences. In 2013, the Freer|Sackler Gallery launched its first major crowdfunding campaign “Together we’re one” to support Yoga: The Art of Transformation. Using crowdfunding, the museum asked ordinary citizens to help fund the exhibit. In the end, the museum […]
Latino Young Ambassadors + Affiliates = next generation of leaders
/in enewsletter feature, General, Resources, Uncategorized /by Jennifer BrundageThe Smithsonian Latino Center’s Young Ambassadors Program (YAP) is a national program for graduating high school seniors aimed at fostering the next generation of Latino leaders in the arts, sciences, and humanities via the Smithsonian Institution and its partners. YAP is a college preparatory and leadership program encouraging participants to explore various academic and career opportunities […]