TO BE HELD IN COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND, JUNE 3-JUNE 5, 2022 There are more museums in America than McDonald’s and Starbucks combined – and many of them are small museums that serve their immediate communities with engaging activities for all-ages. During this ongoing pandemic, museums moved a lot of programming, tours, lectures, storytimes, and discussions
Read moreRegister now for the PA Museums’ Annual Conference taking place on Zoom, April 25-29. You can attend some or all of the conference, and all are welcome. PA Museums is offering 4 tiers of registration to ensure access to conference content to the largest number of people as possible. REGISTER HERE In addition to a full
Read moreIn 2020, NCPH and AASLH launched an online survey about sexual harassment and gender discrimination in public history. The effort was the culmination of more than a year of work by members of NCPH’s board-led Subcommittee on Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment (GDSH). NCPH and AASLH contracted with Oberg Research to issue a 2022 report
Read moreThe National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is the only arts funder in the United States—public or private—that provides access to the arts in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories. Through our grantmaking to thousands of organizations each year, we support the creative capacity of communities to provide everyone in the
Read moreFrom April 3 – 17, you can submit an application for the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative’s next grant-making cycle. Developed to help visual art institutions take critical steps toward carbon neutrality, the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative launched in 2021 with our $10 million commitment to support energy efficiency and clean energy projects. This second cycle of grants
Read moreAmid ongoing national controversy, it is more important than ever for the history community to be able to clearly explain what history is, how we come to understand the past, and why it matters to society. Reframing History provides the field with a new set of evidence-backed recommendations for communicating about history. Funded by the Andrew W.
Read moreDeadline extended for Save America’s Treasures (SAT) grants from the Historic Preservation Fund that provide preservation and/or conservation assistance to nationally significant historic properties and collections. $25 million to be awarded through a competitive process that requires a dollar-for-dollar, non-Federal match, which can be cash or documented in-kind. SAT is administered by the National Park Service (NPS)
Read moreThe Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums (MAAM) is excited to announce three recipients for this year’s Building Museums Symposium’s Buildy Award: the Burke Museum, MuseumLab® at Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, and the Soldiers Memorial Military Museum. The Buildy Award recognizes all three museums’ leadership and exemplary accomplishment through the planning, construction, and life after opening. In
Read moreThe Mid Atlantic Association of Museums board announced that Caroline Brown has been hired as the new Executive Director. In this role she will lead the major museum organization serving New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, and Washington, D.C. Brown will plan and coordinate MAAM’s popular annual conference and its national Building Museums event. She will
Read moreThe Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums honored Carol B. Stapp, Ph.D., the director of the Museum Education Program at the George Washington University, as the recipient of the Katherine Coffey Award for her numerous contributions to the field as an educator of museum educators. Dr. Stapp began her career as a museum educator at the Philadelphia
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