By: Marlow Hoffman
A year has passed since I shared my unemployment woes in the blog post, Will Work for Food: Curatorial Position and Cake Preferred. Here is what has happened since then:
I have been living in Denver for 15 months. This has allowed me to distance myself one more step from that hectic, albeit adventurous, stint in my life when my car donned license plates from three different...
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June 21, 2012
By: Katie Williams
The Northwest African American Museum, Main Entrance just after opening in 2008. Photo by Jennifer Richard.
The Northwest African American Museum (NAAM) is not a collecting institution at this time. This fact has made describing our collections policy to the public tricky, because, isn’t that what museums do? They mainly collect objects and care for them in perpetuity, right...
The Northwest African American Museum, Main Entrance just after opening in 2008. Photo by Jennifer Richard.
The Northwest African American Museum (NAAM) is not a collecting institution at this time. This fact has made describing our collections policy to the public tricky, because, isn’t that what museums do? They mainly collect objects and care for them in perpetuity, right...
June 14, 2012
Joining in on the collections access conversation is Rebecca Andrews, Ethnology Collections Manager at the Burke Museum in Seattle.
This past week I exchanged emails with Rebecca about some of the fascinating ways the Burke Museum partners with indigenous communities around the world to provide access to collection objects for ceremonial purposes.
According to Rebecca the Burke lends objects for...
This past week I exchanged emails with Rebecca about some of the fascinating ways the Burke Museum partners with indigenous communities around the world to provide access to collection objects for ceremonial purposes.
According to Rebecca the Burke lends objects for...
June 13, 2012
By: Sarah Asper-Smith
In November, I traveled to Nome for the first time. I have been surrounded by incredible beauty my whole life—I grew up in the coastal rainforest of southeast Alaska, and stare out my window at tall mountains and lush, green forests. But the flight to Nome was breathtaking. Every region of Alaska carries its own beauty, different from the others. My nose was pressed to the...
In November, I traveled to Nome for the first time. I have been surrounded by incredible beauty my whole life—I grew up in the coastal rainforest of southeast Alaska, and stare out my window at tall mountains and lush, green forests. But the flight to Nome was breathtaking. Every region of Alaska carries its own beauty, different from the others. My nose was pressed to the...
June 8, 2012
By: JJ Aviado
We have two ways in which we provide the community with access to our collection: through our exhibits and library. However, let me start by explaining our Museum. Here is a great description of what the Museum is all about, taken from our website (www.wingluke.org):
“The Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience is dedicated to immersing people in uniquely-American...
We have two ways in which we provide the community with access to our collection: through our exhibits and library. However, let me start by explaining our Museum. Here is a great description of what the Museum is all about, taken from our website (www.wingluke.org):
“The Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience is dedicated to immersing people in uniquely-American...
June 6, 2012
Each year, the Western Museums Association honors one exhibit and one individual through our awards program:
The Charles Redd Award, underwritten by the Charles M. Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University, honors an excellent exhibition illuminating the American West. Submission deadline is July 15, 2012.
The Director's Chair Award honors a member of our field who has had a...
June 5, 2012
By: Rachael Faust
Through the months of May and June, Katie Williams, Museum Educator at the Northwest African American Museum, and I have been inviting museum professionals in the Puget Sound region to write about notable collections access initiatives/policies at their museums. Conversing over coffee on a recent sunny day in Seattle, we talked about upcoming projects at our museums and came up...
Through the months of May and June, Katie Williams, Museum Educator at the Northwest African American Museum, and I have been inviting museum professionals in the Puget Sound region to write about notable collections access initiatives/policies at their museums. Conversing over coffee on a recent sunny day in Seattle, we talked about upcoming projects at our museums and came up...
May 31, 2012
By: Jenny Meyer
It is safe to say that we are living in a time where most people are looking to save money and one of those ways is through “Do It Yourself” (DIY) projects. However many museums have been practicing the DIY mentality before it became popular.
I spent some time in 2006 working with Richard Everett and Amy Hosa at the San Francisco National Maritime Historic Park working on the...
It is safe to say that we are living in a time where most people are looking to save money and one of those ways is through “Do It Yourself” (DIY) projects. However many museums have been practicing the DIY mentality before it became popular.
I spent some time in 2006 working with Richard Everett and Amy Hosa at the San Francisco National Maritime Historic Park working on the...
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