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 […]
Crowdfunding + Tweetups. Yes. Those are real things.
And 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
The 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 […]
coming up in Affiliateland in March 2014
Spring is right around the corner and programs are blooming at Affiliates! FLORIDA The Polk Museum of Art hosts a talk and booksigning on the Smithsonian’s History of America in 101 Objects by Richard Kurin, Undersecretary of History, Art and Culutre, in Lakeland, 3.6. PUERTO RICO Jennifer Brundage, National Outreach Manager, will lead a workshop on […]
Young Historians, Living History- Today’s Stop: Greensboro, NC!
Special thanks to Paula Lee, Smithsonian Affiliations intern, for this guest post. This is the second 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. Greensboro, North Carolina is home to the largest Montagnard community living not only […]
Young Historians, Living Histories- Today’s Stop: Oklahoma City, OK!
Special thanks to Paula Lee, Smithsonian Affiliations intern, for this guest post. This is the first 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. Early this August, I had an extraordinary opportunity to join Smithsonian […]
Announcing Leadership Seminar for Affiliates
Recognizing that the need for leadership skills is fundamental in the field, Smithsonian Affiliations has recently signed an agreement to offer leadership training to staff of Affiliate museums in collaboration with George Washington University’s Museum Studies Program. The Smithsonian has a long standing collaborative relationship with GW that encompasses internships, joint research programs, and research […]
