The Council of Regional Museum Associations officially launched their Digital Empowerment Project website: the Museum Learning Hub. The Museum Learning Hub (MLH) is a nationwide initiative organized by the six U.S. regional museum associations and dedicated to providing free, self-paced training resources for small museums. Part of the Digital Empowerment Project, the Hub provides digital media and technology capacity-building
Read moreAs museums, historic sites, and parks in the Mid-Atlantic region have gradually reopened, staff and volunteers have worked to implement new rules and restrictions designed to prevent the spread of COVID-19. This survey will measure employee perceptions of the enforcement of mask rules and visitor compliance. All responses are completely anonymous, and neither the employee
Read moreJoin fellow professionals and experts online this April for #MW21 on April 5, 6, 7, 16, 23, and 30. As always, the annual MuseWeb conference brings together museum and cultural heritage professionals from around the world to consider advanced research and exemplary applications of digital practice for cultural, natural, and scientific heritage. This year’s virtual format
Read moreThe Independent Museum Professionals (IMP), an AAM network representing more than 1,000 museum consultants and contractors, is seeking applications and self-nominations for the IMP Steering Committee. IMP provides a central hub of resources, knowledge, and connections. It actively works to support independent museum professionals, to strengthen the relationship between independent museumprofessionals and museums, and to
Read moreAAM’s 2021 EdCom Award for Innovation and Education Award – Pandemic Edition recognizes museum education programs that have been created, reinvented, or revamped in response to the pandemic. EdCom will present three awards: small museum award (less than $1 million annual budget for fiscal year 2020), mid-sized museum award ($1 million-9.9 million annual budget for fiscal year
Read moreUpcoming Classes Register for each class individually using the links below, or subscribe to LYRASIS Learning for access to all of our live, online classes and our full Learning Library. Copyright 101 2/24/2021 1:00 – 2:30 Eastern, free session Heather Briston,Head of Curators and Collections, UCLA Library and Melissa Smith Levine, Director, Copyright office, University
Read moreHave you read a great new book about archives? Encountered a new documentary publication that is head and shoulders above the rest? Has a new web publication really stood out to you? If you have, please consider nominating it for the Society of American Archivists Waldo Gifford Leland Award. Nomination forms, a list of previous
Read moreThe Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums (MAAM) is excited to announce two recipients for this year’s Building Museums™ Symposium’s Buildy Award: The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Louisiana Children’s Museum. The Buildy Award recognizes both museums for their leadership and exemplary accomplishment through the planning, construction, and life after opening.
Read moreThursday, January 14, 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Register today at: https://my.historicnewengland.org/6800/vic-furniture For decades, designers and tastemakers have reviled Victorian furniture. In this online talk, Senior Curator of Collections Nancy Carlisle presents an illustrated lecture exploring the highs and lows of Victorian furniture design and suggests that its bad rap has more to do with late nineteenth-century attitudes
Read moreThe National Council on Public History (NCPH) and the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) have launched an online survey about sexual harassment and gender discrimination in public history. This effort is the culmination of more than a year of work by members of NCPH’s Board-Led Subcommittee on Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment, co-chaired by Kristen Baldwin
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