Affiliates in the news: March-April 2013
/in Affiliates in the News, enewsletter feature, General, Road Reports, Uncategorized /by Elizabeth BugbeeEach month we’re highlighting Affiliate-Smithsonian and Affiliate-Affiliate collaborations making headlines. Congrats to these Affiliates making news this month! If you have a clipping you’d like to have considered for the Affiliate blog, please contact Elizabeth Bugbee. New Mexico Museum of Space History (Alamogordo, N.M.) Apollo Capsule Lands at New Mexico Space Museum Space history museum will become Smithsonian […]
New! PAL Talks- distance learning for Affiliates
/in Behind the Scenes, enewsletter feature, General, Uncategorized, You Heard It Here First /by Elizabeth BugbeeSmithsonian Affiliations introduces PAL Talks (Partnering with Affiliates for Learning)! Refresh your knowledge or learn something new about being an Affiliate and collaborating with the Smithsonian in webinars and video chats about membership, branding, artifact loans and more. Our successful pilot using Vidyo at the Mobile App Clinic last month showed us that Affiliates are eager […]
coming up in affiliateland in April 2013
/in enewsletter feature, Exhibitions, General, Road Reports, Uncategorized, You Heard It Here First /by Jennifer BrundagePUERTO RICO Educators from the National Postal Museum lead workshops on designing educational materials for exhibitions and for different audiences at the Museo y Centro de Estudios HumanÃsticos in Gurabo, 4.5-6. FLORIDA The Naples Museum of Art opens the Multiplicity exhibition, featuring 83 works from the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s collections (including the one to […]
kudos Affiliates! march 2013
/in Affiliates in the News, enewsletter feature, Uncategorized /by Elizabeth Bugbee2013 continues to a be a successful one for our Affiliates! The new Perot Museum of Nature and Science (Dallas, Texas) announced a partnership with the Dallas Cowboys after franchise owner Jerry Jones and his wife, Gene, donated $5 million dollars to the museum. Their donation funded the Perot Museum’s atrium, the naturally lit entrance area […]
Repurposing the Museum: Using Digital Tools to Re-engage Young People
/in Conference Ideas, enewsletter feature, General, Uncategorized /by Elizabeth BugbeeOn Tuesday, June 11, we’re kicking-off our 2013 Affiliations National Conference with an inspiring keynote address from Stephen Brown, President and Executive Producer at Mobile Digital Arts and General Manager of the New Learning Institute. Conference attendees will hear Brown discuss the ways museums can be repurposed by young people with the new digital tools at […]
Young Historians, Living Histories
/in General, Uncategorized /by Elizabeth BugbeeYoung Historians, Living Histories is a collaborative educational program that draws on the exhibition, I Want the Wide American Earth: An Asian Pacific American Story, from the Smithsonian’s Asian Pacific American Center (APAC). Smithsonian Affiliations and APAC have partnered in a grant collaboration and have been awarded funds from the Smithsonian Office of the […]
affiliates in the news! February-March 2013
/in Affiliates in the News, enewsletter feature, General, Uncategorized /by Elizabeth BugbeeInternational Museum of Art and Science (McAllen, Texas) IMAS hosting traveling exhibit channeling 600-year-old Chinese pavilion Senator John Heinz History Center (Pittsburgh, Pa.) Heinz History Center exhibit examines ‘1968: The Year that Rocked America’ Riverside Metropolitan Museum (Riverside, Calif.) RIVERSIDE: Smithsonian scientist to visit museum Carolinas Aviation Museum (Charlotte, N.C.) NC museum will receive Smithsonian […]
coming up in affiliateland in march 2013
/in enewsletter feature, General, Uncategorized /by Jennifer BrundageMarch is coming in like a lion with events all over Affiliateland! COLORADO The Littleton Museum will host SITES’ Ramp It Up: Skateboard Culture in Native America featuring 28 artifacts from the National Museum of the American Indian, in Littleton, 3.2. History Colorado will host an exhibition on Jefferson’s Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus […]
opportunities for Latino scholarship
/in Behind the Scenes, enewsletter feature, Uncategorized /by Jennifer BrundageOur colleagues in the Smithsonian Latino Center are gearing up for a very busy 2013. On November 7-9, 2013, the Smithsonian Latino Center will be hosting the Latino Art Now! conference, in collaboration with the Interâ€University Program for Latino Research (IUPLR) headquartered at the University of Notre Dame, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Since […]
Affiliates in the news! January-February 2013
/in Affiliates in the News, General, Uncategorized /by Elizabeth BugbeeEach month we’re highlighting Affiliate-Smithsonian collaborations making headlines. Congrats to these Affiliates making news this month! If you have a clipping you’d like to have considered for the Affiliate blog, please contact Elizabeth Bugbee. Birthplace of Country Music Alliance (Bristol, Tenn.) Astrophotography students to exhibit work, share enthusiasm about VI and BCM-hosted program American Textile History Museum […]
what’s an SA-Q?
/in enewsletter feature, General, Uncategorized /by Jennifer BrundageLast year, the Smithsonian launched its first-ever advertising campaign, Seriously Amazing. As part of the effort, seriouslyamazing.org asked a number of fun “SI-Q” – questions designed to peak your interest in our collections, research and exhibitions. Affiliations staff has decided to start asking our own intriguing questions – SA-Q – that seek to expose all the […]
affiliations conference preview: spaces for learning
/in Behind the Scenes, Conference Ideas, enewsletter feature, General, Resources, Uncategorized, You Heard It Here First /by Jennifer BrundageDo you operate an education center at your museum, or thinking about it? Join us at the Affiliations National Conference on June 10-12 to meet colleagues who are opening or running new spaces for learning on the Smithsonian campus. Through tours of these spaces, frank discussions with colleagues, exchanging resources and research, and hands-on activities, discover and share […]
introducing the mobile app clinic
/1 Comment/in enewsletter feature, General, Resources, Uncategorized, You Heard It Here First /by Elizabeth BugbeeNancy Proctor, Head of Mobile Strategy & Initiatives at the Smithsonian Institution and the staff of Smithsonian Affiliations invite you to participate in a Mobile Clinic, a new opportunity as a benefit of your Affiliation that will introduce you to developing mobile tour apps. On Wednesday, February 27 (3-5 pm EST), Nancy will present two […]
coming up in affiliateland in february 2013
/in Affiliates in the News, enewsletter feature, Exhibitions, General, Road Reports, Uncategorized, You Heard It Here First /by Jennifer BrundageFLORIDA The Mennello Museum of American Art opens the African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era and Beyond exhibition, with 100 artworks on loan from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, in Orlando, 2.1. PENNSYLVANIA The Heinz History Center opens 1968: The Year that Rocked America exhibition which contains three artifacts on loan from the […]
kudos Affiliates! february 2013
/in enewsletter feature, General, Uncategorized, You Heard It Here First /by Elizabeth Bugbee2013 begins with success for our Affiliates! Funding Science Museum Oklahoma (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) announced the museum has been awarded a $12 million grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation and plans to open a new exhibit area for young children. The new 21,000-square-foot exhibit space will be devoted to children between 3 and 6 years old. The […]
Kudos Affiliates! for December 2012
/in General, Uncategorized, You Heard It Here First /by Elizabeth BugbeeCongratulations to Affiliates for a great year, and may 2013 be just as prosperous! Three Affiliates received MetLife grants to support programming around SITES exhibitions: Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center (Mashantucket, CT) received $4,990 to fund construction of an outdoor skateboard park which will be used during the public opening and summer kick-off events for the […]