Plimoth Plantation creates mishoon for Smithsonian museum
On September 6, 2013, Plimoth Plantation (Plymouth, Mass.) will donate a mishoon to the National Museum of the American Indian. Created this past spring by the Wampanoag Indigenous Program (WIP) at Plimoth Plantation, members of the WIP will present the mishoon and accompanying paddles to NMAI in a special gift ceremony at the museum’s Cultural […]
promote your smithsonian affiliation on your website
Smithsonian Affiliates are spotlighting their Affiliation on websites and visual communications. As so many museum visitors log onto a museum’s website before they come through the doors, this is an amazing way to emphasize your ongoing partnership with the Smithsonian to your community and visitors. We wanted to share some great examples and let you […]
Plan Ahead- 2014 Jazz Appreciation Month
Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM)–April 2014–is just around the corner. Affiliates have the opportunity to participate in FREE Media Training/Networking webinars organized by The Jazz Journalists Association (JJA). The JJA program will help Affiliate organizations use JAM as an opportunity to broaden their outreach to local communities and media outlets and to network with local jazz influencers. Three […]
engineering ingenuity at the buffalo bill center of the west
Special thanks to Monica Reardon, Smithsonian Affiliations summer intern, for authoring the 2013 #MuseumDayLive! Affiliate blog series. The Buffalo Bill Center of the West had its start as a log building in Cody, Wyoming, resembling Buffalo Bill’s TE Ranch house. Mary Jester Allen intended the museum to be a national shrine and memorial to her uncle, […]
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. CALIFORNIA Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, California) Carlos Bulosan poem inspires US […]
kudos Affiliates! September 2013
Summer 2013 is winding down but continues to be a hot one for our Affiliates! Funding The National Endowment for the Humanities recently announced the recipients of $33 million in grants for 173 humanities projects, including the following Affiliate projects: – Mystic Seaport Museum (Mystic, CT)-$164,280 Project: “The American Maritime People” NEH Summer Institute 2014 […]
“Train” your eyes on adventure at the B&O Railroad Museum
Special thanks to Monica Reardon, Smithsonian Affiliations summer intern, for authoring the 2013 Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day Live! blog series. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum is located where the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad came into being during the late 1820s, in Baltimore, Maryland. The collection grew from a late 19th century trade show exhibit […]
“Hey Mom, guess what I did today? I moved a totem pole!”
Special thanks to Summer Olsen, 2013 Smithsonian Affiliations Intern Partner for writing this guest post. Summer spent 10 weeks at the Smithsonian this summer. She returns to California this fall to complete the second half of her intern partnership. Thank you, Summer! During my summer 2013 internship through the Smithsonian Affiliations Intern Partnership Program I assisted […]
“American Sabor” at the American Jazz Museum
Special thanks to Monica Reardon, Smithsonian Affiliations summer intern, for authoring the Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day Live! blog series. Located at the crossroads of 18th & Vine, the Jazz District of Kansas City, Missouri, the American Jazz Museum showcases the sights and sounds of jazz through interactive exhibits, films, programs, and performances. Since 1997, the museum […]
kudos affiliates! july-august 2013
2013 continues to be a successful one for our Affiliates! Funding Three Affiliate museums received support from Smithsonian Community Grant program sponsored by MetLife Foundation. Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, ME-$4,000: To fund honoraria and travel expenses for participants in the museum’s planned public programs for their hosting of IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas. Programming includes […]
Affiliates in the News! July 2013
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. Telluride Historical Museum (Telluride, Colorado) Sharing History: Telluride Historical Museum named Smithsonian Affiliate […]
Exclusive Grant Opportunity for Affiliates: Places of Invention
We’re looking for up to 20 Affiliates to receive $10,000 and training in Washington, D.C. to document innovation in your community. Places of Invention (POI) is an exhibition in development, organized by the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, and scheduled to open at the National Museum of American History in 2015. The Lemelson […]
Promote your Smithsonian Museum Day Live activities with us!
On 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
Sharing 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
Spend 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.
A 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 […]
