The HRC thanks Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko, CEO of the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine, for serving as guest author for the following entry. Cinnamon is an AASLH Council member and is program chair for the 2010 AASLH Annual Meeting in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Before joining the staff of the Abbe Museum, as director of the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum in Crawfordsville, Indiana, Cinnamon guided the museum to a 2008 IMLS National Medal...
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The HRC thanks Julia Baldini, museum educator at the Windsor Historical Society and steering committee member for the Connecticut Museum Educator Roundtable, for serving as guest author for the following entry. With each passing year, more and more museums are evaluating and increasing the roles museum educators and education departments play in the overall mission of the museum. Colleges and universities offer degrees and certificates in museum education and museum educators are expanding their workload...
The HRC thanks Ann Smith, museum consultant and former director of the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, CT, and the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, CT, for serving as guest author for the following entry. Ann has recommended several articles for the HRC from The Art Newspaper online including one featured in the recent HRC post Recession: An Audience Booster? This past spring The Art Newspaper published articles on how the recession was affecting...
Called the "Prime Minister of Permission Marketing", Seth Godin has a lot to say on an enormous variety of topics. All of his writings speak to museum folks willing to challenge the staid and dramatically fusty marketing concepts long-familiar to those in the heritage world. If you like to start the day off by thinking, Godin's blog is a must-read. (WARNING: drink your coffee prior to opening Seth's blog posting of the day.) Recent topics...
Many of you may follow Reach Advisors' blog, Museum Audience Insight (discussed in a recent HRC post by Liz Shapiro). The blog provides information about audience, cutting edge techniques for marketing and audience development, and trends we should know more about. Susie Wilkening and James Chung have now taken the results of their on-going research into the museum visitor and produced a lively, easy to read book that delves more deeply into some of their...
In today's economy, simply keeping the doors open can be a challenge for many historic house museums.AASLH's Historic House Committee realizes the struggles faced by many house museums today and has been working to provide necessary resources to the field for the past several years.In April 2002, AASLH partnered with the National Trust for Historic Preservation and invited 25 public history and historic house professionals to a two-day meeting to discuss the most challenging issues...
