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June 29, 2012
Early Bird Registration ends July 31st!
On month remains of Early Bird Registration for the 2012 Annual Meeting in Palm Springs! The Annual Meeting includes a over 40 engaging sessions; keynote addresses by W. Richard West, Jr., and Nik Honeysett; and Evening Events hosted by the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands, Palm Springs Art Museum, Agua Caliente Cultural Museum, and many more!
The 2012 ...
June 27, 2012
AAM Announces “Invite Congress to Visit Your Museum” Week;
Set for August 11-18, Museums Need to Show Congress How Essential They AreWHAT: Museums invite Members of Congress to visit their museumsWHY: Show Congress what museums are and what they doWHEN: August 11-18, 2012
“In August, Members of Congress will be at home for nearly a month, looking for opportunities to connect with constituents,”...
June 26, 2012
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...
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...
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...
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