A unique experience: a peek into a two-week visiting professional residency at the smithsonian
Special 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
Thanks 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
Special 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
Summer 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
Affiliates 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?
From 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
May 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
Spring 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 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
Smithsonian 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
Special 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
Smithsonian 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 […]
Affiliates in the news: March-April 2013
Each 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
Smithsonian 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
PUERTO 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
2013 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 […]
