Cate Bayles learns through teaching. After deciding that traditional classroom instruction wasn’t for her, she sought out museums as a route to informal learning. Her museum internship journey has taken her to a variety of institutions, big and small, all over the U.S. In May, she completed a MA in Museum Studies from the Cooperstown … Continue reading
Becca Beck is the Assistant Director of Education and Community Engagement at the Indiana Historical Society (IHS) in Indianapolis, Indiana. She started working at IHS almost ten years ago as a graduate student intern and then ran the Indiana Junior Historical Society for nine years. She is a graduate of the Seminar for Historical Administration, class … Continue reading
It’s a new week, so that means there’s a new highly influential, field defining report to check out! The 2012 Museum Edition of the New Media Consortium Horizon Report has arrived. To get the run down, watch the video below. Did you catch all of that? There’s a lot of rich information in this report. I really … Continue reading
The weekend is upon us and there are 4 days left (including today) to apply for the Seminar for Historical Administration. The “Why Should You Attend SHA?” 11 posts in 11 days from the SHA Class of 2011 continues today with Cynthia Capers (@eighthcyn), Associate Director of Education and Changing Exhibitions at the Holocaust Museum Houston in Houston, Texas. Summer camps are often maligned in … Continue reading
The “Why Should You Attend SHA?” 11 posts in 11 days from the SHA Class of 2011 continues today with Mark Sundlov (@thesandlot11), Site Supervisor at the Ronald Reagan Minuteman Missile State Historic Site in Cooperstown, North Dakota. SHA has been the most important and effective educational event in my museum career. SHA is imprecisely divided into two areas—professional training and personal … Continue reading
Last week, I was lucky enough to visit Hanover, New Hampshire at the peak of autumn. When I wasn’t engaged in my excellent Society of American Archivists workshop on Managing Electronic Records, I ventured around the Dartmouth campus. The Hood Museum of Art was a must-see on my list of prospective stops. This free museum … Continue reading
“Whilst snug in their Club-Room, they Jovially twine/ The Myrtle of VENUS with BACCHUS’S Vine.” Recognize the meter? How about now: “O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave/ O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?” That’s right. Our national anthem is set to another tune. When Americans wanted to … Continue reading
In addition to my many other jobs, I also teach preservation classes for the Des Moines Public Schools Community Education Program. I’ve been teaching a photo preservation class called “Saving Your Family Photos” for about a year and a half now, and will debut a paper and book preservation class this spring. (I believe registration … Continue reading
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