coming up in affiliateland in november 2011
ILLINOIS: The National Museum of Natural History’s David Hunt will be the keynote speaker at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana Spurlock Museum’s 100th anniversary celebration in Champaign, 11/1. NEW MEXICO: The City of Las Cruces Museum System will host SITES’ NASA | ART: 50 Years of Exploration in Las Cruces, 11/4. CALIFORNIA: Apollo 15 astronaut Al […]
An inspiring exhibition for your neighborhood
Thirty-five seconds. That’s all it took to forever change the world for millions of Haitians on January 12, 2010. Now imagine those 35 seconds from a child’s point of view. Soon after the devastating earthquake, first lady of Haiti Elisabeth D. Préval called on Haitian artist Philippe Dodard and his fellow artists, as well as psychologists, […]
kudos affiliates! november 2011
Nice going, Affiliates! The Allegheny Regional Asset District board has proposed a $25,000 increase for the Senator John Heinz History Center (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) in the upcoming 2012 budget. The increase is to oversee the operating for the Fort Pitt Museum. The Wisconsin Maritime Museum (Manitowoc, Wisconsin) has received a $39,550 award through the Wisconsin Department of Tourism […]
what’s it like in your town?
What is special about living in a small town? Throughout the history of literature and popular culture, we know that there is something unique about small-town life. We can all recall a story or personal experience from a small-town “Main Street” that goes beyond nostalgia to touch on values that all Americans hold dear – […]
At the Controls in your neighborhood
Ever wondered what the cockpit looked like in Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis? Or what the viewpoint was inside the Wright brothers’ 1903 Flyer? Affiliates now have the opportunity to show their visitors an up-close view of some of the most famous cockpits in aviation history. At the Controls, an exhibition created from a […]
kudos affiliates! october 2011
Way to go Affiliates! Saginaw Art Museum (Saginaw, Michigan) has received a $15,000 Michigan District Grant from the Macy’s Foundation to continue to host “Macy’s Free Fridays” through 2012. This program is a collaborative effort to make the arts more accessible to the diverse people and organizations of the Great Lakes Bay Region. The Lower Manhattan Development […]
coming up in affiliateland in october 2011
Autumn is always a busy time in Affiliateland! Hope you can catch one of these opportunities to experience the Smithsonian in your hometown. KENTUCKY: The Ten Thousand Springs Pavilion architectural model, on loan from the Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute, is on view at the Headley-Whitney Museum in Lexington, through 3/2012. WASHINGTON: Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden […]
Art, Community, and Culture on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Special thanks to Sharon Shaffer, Executive Director, Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center, for this guest post. The Ohr O’Keefe Museum of Art (Gulfport, MS) tells three significant stories through its museum and collections. It is the museum design of Frank Gehry, the unparallelled collection of pottery by George Edgar Ohr, and the artifacts of freed slave and […]
Museums’ Futures Rely on Relevance
Special thanks to Ellen Rosenthal, President and CEO at Conner Prairie Interactive History Park, a Smithsonian Affiliate in Fishers, Indiana, for this guest post. Around 500 BCE the legendary Greek philosopher Heraclitus declared that the only constant is change. Imagine what he would say today. For more than a quarter century museums have been a central part of […]
Affiliates invited to share 150th Civil War activities via Smithsonian social media
In April 1862, as train passengers and crews were eating breakfast in Big Shanty (modern Kennesaw, Georgia), a band of Union Civil War spies led by James J. Andrews stole the General locomotive from under the watchful eyes of guards at nearby Confederate Camp McDonald. Destroying telegraph wires and uprooting tracks in their escape north, […]
Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship Program
The Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (SARF) offers visual artists the opportunity to spend between one and three months working among the vast collections of the Smithsonian Institution with experts on the Smithsonian staff. The fellowship offers a dynamic research environment in which to investigate the objects, discoveries, and historical events that inspire creative work rather […]
SITES’ corner
By Ed Liskey, Senior Scheduling & Exhibitor Relations Coordinator, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service We’d like to share some of the great experiences Affiliate museums have had hosting SITES exhibitions this past summer. When will you get your SITES on? The Wisconsin Maritime Museum (Manitowoc, WI) is hosting SITES’ Native Words, Native Warriors, from July 23- […]
coming up in affiliateland in september 2011
Fall is underway in Affiliateland! ARIZONA: The Challenger Space Center opens the National Air & Space Museum’s In Plane View: Abstractions of Flight in Peoria, 9/2. PENNSYLVANIA: Senator John Heinz History Center displays four artifacts from the National Museum of American History in its Stars & Stripes: An American Story exhibition in Pittsburgh, 9/10. TEXAS: Bill Fitzhugh, […]
kudos affiliates! september 2011
Affiliates have been busy in September! Kudos to all. The Arab American National Museum (Dearborn, MI) raised $285,887, with $150,000, from the Museums for America grant program. The funds will benefit the museum’s Understanding Arabs, Arab-Americans and Islam initiative, which aims to educate students throughout the Midwest. The museum also has been awarded a $150,000 grant […]
bring history to life (literally) with Smithsonian theater programs
A college student in 1960s attire carrying a Civil Rights protest sign starts singing in the great hall, leading visitors to a training session to prepare for a student sit-in. The legendary John Brown thunders in an exhibition pocket theater about his anti-slavery activities and why violence is justified. Mary Pickersgill lays out a swath of cloth […]
happy anniversary to the American Jewish History museum
August 6, 2011 Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the Smithsonian’s partnership with the National Museum of American Jewish History (NMAJH) in Philadelphia. When we met, the Museum shared space on Independence Mall with the Congregation Mikveh Israel (known as the “Synagogue of the American Revolution”), whose members founded the Museum in 1976. As the only […]
