kudos affiliates! for april 2016
Congratulations to these Affiliates on their spring accomplishments! The Goppert Foundation of Kansas City is contributing $250,000 to an expansion and bridge project underway at Union Station. The gift brings the station closer to meeting its fundraising goal for the $7.5 million project. Construction is underway on a vehicular and pedestrian bridge which will allow […]
coming up in Affiliateland in April 2016
PENNSYLVANIA Rex Ellis, associate director for curatorial affairs at the National Museum of African American History and Culture will deliver the keynote talk at the Shifting Narratives symposium, to be held at the African American Museum in Philadelphia in partnership with the National Park Service, 4.16. GEORGIA Smithsonian staff from the National Zoo, National Portrait […]
Get to know one of our Affiliate partners: the Conner House, the heart of Conner Prairie
Our diverse network of Smithsonian Affiliates helps connect local stories to our shared national history. With more than 200 Affiliates in 46 states, Puerto Rico and Panama, each has a special story to share about what makes them unique to our network. Here’s one of those stories. Special thanks to Duane Brodt, Director of Public […]
“lets do history” with Oklahoma History Center
Special thanks to Sarah Dumas, Director of Education at the Oklahoma History Center, for this guest post. On February 11 educators from the Oklahoma History Center (OHC) were invited by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History to participate in its Let’s Do History Tour in Norman, Oklahoma. OHC Education Department staff provided a one-hour presentation […]
way to go Affiliates! kudos for March 2016
Congrats to these Affiliates on their recent accomplishments. FUNDING Pennsylvania’s Northampton County Council awarded more than $480,000 in grants raised from hotel room taxes to a variety of organizations, including the National Canal Museum, Historic Bethlehem Museums and Sites, and the National Museum of Industrial History to promote tourism, historical sites and cultural events in […]
what’s up in Affiliateland in March 2016
CONNECTICUT Roger Connor, Curator at the National Air and Space Museum, will present a talk on “By the Stars to Victory: Making Aerial Celestial Navigation Practical Between the World Wars†as part of the Stars of the Smithsonian lecture series at Mystic Seaport in Mystic, 3.3. PENNSYLVANIA The traveling exhibition Toys of the ‘50s, ‘60s […]
Affiliates in the news: March edition
Congrats to these Affiliates making news!  If you have a clipping that highlights a collaboration with the Smithsonian or with a fellow Affiliate, or a clipping that demonstrates leadership in education, innovation, and arts/culture/history/science you’d like to have considered for the Affiliate blog, please contact Elizabeth Bugbee. Idaho Museum of Natural History (Pocatello, ID) Idaho Museum of […]
visiting Affiliate artifacts… in Washington
In Affiliations, we like to say that our partnerships are two-way streets. We learn as much from our Affiliates as we share. Our Affiliate partners lend ideas, energy and expertise not only to the Smithsonian, but to each other. They also lend artifacts, and often, the very best, rare ones they have in their collections. […]
Road Report: Smithsonian Dazzles in New Mexico
The beauty of the “Land of Enchantment” began gradually as the plane started its relatively smooth descent over the Sandia Mountains into Albuquerque, home of two Smithsonian Affiliates and the nature of my visit. As I drove to my first destination of the day-National Museum of Nuclear Science & History-I understood why the Sandia Mountains […]
Let’s welcome the Smithsonian’s newest museum to the family
Scheduled to open on September 24, 2016, the National Museum of African American History and Culture will be the Smithsonian’s newest addition to its campus on the National Mall. Activities to commemorate and welcome the new Museum are being planned around the Smithsonian, to include special events and exhibitions that celebrate the African American experience. […]
kudos Affiliates! February 2016
Congrats to these Affiliates on their recent accomplishments. Funding MassBay Community College and Framingham State University (Framingham, MA) have received a $5,000 grant from the Sudbury Capital Grant Fund for the new MetroWest College Planning Center. The center has been set up to improve college readiness, participation, and completion among underserved student populations and nontraditional […]
44th annual legal issues in museum administration conference- Affiliates receive a 30% discount
The Smithsonian Institution Office of General Counsel invites you to attend the forty-fourth annual Legal Issues in Museum Administration conference, to be held Wednesday through Friday, April 6-8, 2016, in Los Angeles at the Getty Center and Loews Hollywood Hotel. Smithsonian Affiliates may use the code CX006SME for a 30% discount on tuition (in person […]
what’s new in Affiliateland in February 2016
2016 is off to a great start with some noteworthy events at Affiliates: NEW YORK Undersecretary for Museums and Research Richard Kurin will give a lecture on the Smithsonian’s History of America in 101 Objects followed by a book signing at the Museum of American Finance in New York, 2.10. FLORIDA National Museum of African […]
affiliates in the news!
Congrats to these Affiliates making news!  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. Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor (Honolulu, HI) Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor Named Hawaii’s “#1 Historical Spot Worth Traveling For” By TripAdvisor’s® […]
On the Road Again with 101 Objects
Under Secretary for History, Art, and Culture, Richard Kurin, helped kick-off our 20th anniversary year at the Sullivan Museum and History Center (Vermont) in September and he’s on the road again sharing stories from his recent book, The Smithsonian’s History of America in 101 Objects, with Affiliates across the country. Since 2013 he’s visited 11 […]
I Am Psyched! Pop-Up Museum Explores Contributions of Women of Color in Psychology
Many thanks to guest author Cathy Faye, PhD, assistant director at the Drs. Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Center for the History of Psychology at the University of Akron for this post! Museums have the power to present us with unfamiliar and interesting places, spaces, things, ideas, and people. Sometimes, these things are new to us, […]
