Promote your Smithsonian Museum Day Live activities with us!
/in General, Uncategorized /by Elizabeth BugbeeOn September 28, 2013, many Smithsonian Affiliates will be opening their doors for FREE as part of Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day Live! Museum Day Live! is an annual event hosted by Smithsonian magazine in which participating museums across the country open their doors for free to anyone presenting a Museum Day Ticket. So far, more than […]
Featured video: Smithsonian Firearms in Cody
/2 Comments/in Affiliates in the News, Uncategorized /by Elizabeth BugbeeSharing a great article from By Katharine MacKnight at KULR-8 TV in Billings, Montana. In 1876, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History established the National Firearms Collection in Washington, DC. It’s the home to nearly 7,000 artifacts. Sixty-four of them are now on display at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West Firearms Exhibit. It’s […]
coming up in affiliateland, July-August 2013
/1 Comment/in Exhibitions, General, Uncategorized /by Jennifer BrundageSpend your summer at a Smithsonian Affiliate! Check out these events in your neighborhood in July and August. MAINE Kevin Gover, National Museum of the American Indian and Harold Closter, Smithsonian Affiliations, attended the public announcement of the Abbe Museum as a new Smithsonian Affiliate in Bar Harbor, 07.05. Gabrielle Tayac (Piscataway), National Museum of the […]
It all started with a field trip to NMAI.
/6 Comments/in Behind the Scenes, General, Mishoon, Uncategorized /by Elizabeth BugbeeA few years ago, members of Plimoth Plantation’s Wampanoag Indigenous Program made a trip from Plymouth, Massachusetts to Washington, DC to visit the National Museum of the American Indian. While there Darius Coombs, Associate Director of the program, noted in the museum’s canoe exhibition there was no representation of a traditional mishoon. Today, he and Richard Pickering, Deputy […]
A unique experience: a peek into a two-week visiting professional residency at the smithsonian
/4 Comments/in Affiliate Guest Authors, General, Uncategorized /by Elizabeth BugbeeSpecial thanks for this guest post to Jessica Crossman, Experiential Learning Department Program Coordinator at the San Diego Museum of Man, a Smithsonian Affiliate in San Diego, California. Jessica spent two weeks in April 2013 at the Smithsonian. This year I had the honor of being selected to participate in the Smithsonian Affiliations Visiting Professionals […]
2013 Affiliations National Conference Resources
/3 Comments/in Conference Ideas, General, Resources, Seriously Amazing, Uncategorized /by Elizabeth BugbeeThanks to everyone who joined us at the 2013 Affiliations National Conference! We had a record-breaking 119 attendees from 74 Affiliates in 31 states and Puerto Rico join us! We know we learned a lot from you and hope you learned something new, met a new colleague, or discovered new possibilities while you were in […]
Capturing the Cosmos in Huntsville
/4 Comments/in Affiliate Guest Authors, General, Uncategorized /by Elizabeth BugbeeSpecial thanks to our guest blogger, Chris Myers, U.S. Space and Rocket Center®, Huntsville, AL for this post Bringing the Cosmos to Space Camp®! At the U.S. Space and Rocket Center® and Space Camp, we are constantly looking for fun and innovative ways to teach our museum guests and trainees about space history and the science and math concepts that […]
take me out to the ballgame
/in Affiliates in the News, Exhibitions, General, Road Reports, Uncategorized /by Jennifer BrundageSummer is upon us, which means the baseball season is literally in full swing. Nothing says America more than a sunny afternoon at the ballpark with a hot dog and ball cap, cheering on your favorite team. Now baseball fans can share their passion outside the ballpark too, with a new initiative launched by the National Museum of […]
affiliates in the news, spring 2013 edition
/1 Comment/in Affiliates in the News, enewsletter feature, General, Uncategorized /by Jennifer BrundageAffiliates are making news this month! National Atomic Testing Museum (Las Vegas, Nevada) Las Vegas museum tells of city’s history with nuclear testing North Carolina Museum of History (Raleigh, North Carolina) Exhibition featuring 19th-century African American master cabinetmaker Thomas Day opens at Renwick Gallery April 12 Mennello Museum of American Art (Orlando, Florida) […]
what’s new at SITES?
/in enewsletter feature, Exhibitions, General, Uncategorized, You Heard It Here First /by Laura HansenFrom amazing animals to the immigration experience in America, the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) exhibitions reflect the depth and breadth of the Smithsonian’s research and collections. Host a SITES exhibition and find out how it can expand your community of visitors and supporters, lead to creative programming opportunities and generate greater press coverage. […]
coming up in affiliateland in may 2013
/in enewsletter feature, Exhibitions, General, Uncategorized, You Heard It Here First /by Elizabeth BugbeeMay is a busy time in Affiliateland! CALIFORNIA The Japanese American National Museum will open SITES’ American Heroes: Japanese American WWII Nisei Soldiers and the Congressional Gold Medal, 5.4. The museum will also host the National Portrait Gallery’s traveling exhibition Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits in Los Angeles, 5.11. WYOMING 64 artifacts from the National Museum […]
kudos affiliates! for may 2013
/1 Comment/in Affiliates in the News, enewsletter feature, General, Uncategorized, You Heard It Here First /by Elizabeth BugbeeSpring has sprung, and 2013 continues to be a successful one for our Affiliates! Funding The Ohio Historical Society (Columbus, Ohio) has received $155,000 from the Ohio General Assembly for repairs on the sternwheeler W.P. Snyder. The Society also received two awards from The National Endowment for the Humanities: one for $248,600 to continue the digitization of […]
early learning in museums
/in Conference Ideas, enewsletter feature, General, Resources, Uncategorized /by Jennifer BrundageIn 2012, the Institute of Museum and Library Services hosted a series of meetings to inform the development of a groundbreaking report on the role of libraries and museums in early learning. Among the advisors to those meetings were representatives from the Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center, a model school on the Smithsonian campus that combines […]
Welcome Abbe Museum! First Museum in Maine to be in Association with the Smithsonian
/1 Comment/in General, Uncategorized, You Heard It Here First /by Elizabeth BugbeeSmithsonian Affiliations is pleased to announce a new affiliate relationship with the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine. The Abbe Museum is Maine’s first Smithsonian Affiliate, joining 177 Affiliates in 41 states, Puerto Rico and Panama, currently in association with the Smithsonian. “Becoming a Smithsonian Affiliate will support exciting collaborations between our organizations, while dramatically […]
Capturing the Cosmos in College Park
/in General, Uncategorized /by Elizabeth BugbeeSpecial thanks to our guest blogger, Chelsea Dorman, College Park Aviation Museum, College Park, MD for this post Last fall, College Park Aviation Museum had the opportunity to lead two Capture the Colorful Cosmos classes using assistance from a Smithsonian Youth Access Fund grant. Our museum attracts many younger children for all of its hands-on activities, but we […]
conference highlight: serving children and families on the autism spectrum
/1 Comment/in Conference Ideas, enewsletter feature, General, Uncategorized /by Jennifer BrundageSmithsonian Affiliations is pleased to be working with the Smithsonian’s Accessbility Program to offer a special workshop during the 2013 Smithsonian Affiliations National Conference on the ways that museums can and are serving children on the autism spectrum. The first part of the workshop will cover the basics of autism spectrum disorders, answering questions such as: – what is autism and […]