I have a love/hate relationship with these kinds of stories
So. . . someone apparently called up The National Museum of the Royal Navy at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard and asked if the museum would like an old can of pudding. When the museum discovered it was...
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I’m finding this project interesting and provocative: Here is some additional description of the installation from the museum’s YouTube channel: The Senator John Heinz History Center, “the...
View ArticleTips for picking a graduate program that will be a good fit for you
I get lots of queries, both from my own undergraduates and from students shopping around for graduate programs in museum studies and public history, about which programs are currently the strongest....
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Bringing the sexy back to public history
As a follow-up to Feminist Ryan Gosling, someone has created Public History Ryan Gosling. A sampling:
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Differentiating degree tracks in a graduate program
A version of this post also appears at The Clutter Museum. Because I’m one of only two faculty in my department whose specialty is officially “public history”—mind you, we all practice one form of it...
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Enlivening old exhibits
While researching local history, one of my students recently came across an old newspaper article she thought I’d find amusing. Titled “Old Scenes Take Form At Museum,” it was a piece on a new exhibit...
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Museums and the Horizon Reports
In collaboration with its various partners, the New Media Consortium (NMC) each year publishes three versions of its Horizon Report: one each for K-12 education, higher education, and museum education...
View ArticleAugmenting Museums and K-16
Last month, I kicked off a series of posts about museums and emerging technologies, and specifically the actual and potential interplay of technologies across educational sectors (K-12, museums, and...
View ArticleMake students curators
In response to a call for content for a book titled Hack(ing) School(ing), I wrote an article on how we should replace middle- and high-school history content standards with helping students to develop...
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Avoid embarrassment
Here’s one example of why you might want to hire me to help organize your exhibition, programming, or other content. If you call me in advance of your opening, I can help you catch unfortunate...
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