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From Me to We: Museums & Communities
In academia today there is a tension between the importance of interdisciplinary studies compared to single discipline research. Although universities encourage collaboration across disciplines as an...
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Archaeology and Outreach at the National Park Service
In today’s post we are fortunate to have a Q & A with Barbara Little, Archaeologist with the National Park Service. The title of a volume Barbara edited, Archaeology as a Tool of Civic...
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Students as “Irregular” Museum Staff
The C.H. Nash Museum at Chucalissa is a small facility with a full-time staff of four, supplemented by three graduate assistants each semester and the occasional temporary employee. Perhaps the theme...
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Outreach as a process not an event
l to r, Jasmine Morrison, Tabitha Barlow, and Davarius Burton discuss the creation of their exhibit in the Summer of 2010. For those who have followed this blog for a while, you are familiar with the...
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Baby Steps in Making Museums & Archaeology Relevant
Below is the modified text of a presentation I gave this past Saturday at the Student Committee Workshop on public education and outreach in archaeology at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference...
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The Relevance of Cultural Heritage Professionals
A few months ago I posted a Museum Practices seminar student, Leila Hamdan’s response to the following question: Put yourself in the position of John or Josephine Q. Public. In the current economic...
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Public Accountability in Cultural Heritage Studies
U.S. Military Veteran participants in Black History Month Celebration at the C.H. Nash Museum – photo featured in Museums and Social Issues volume For the past few years I delivered a presentation on...
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Museum Studies Programs and Small Museums
Check out my guest post this week Museum Studies Programs and Small Museums, a Win-Win Collaboration at the American Association of State and Local History blog.
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Why Fund Museum Professionals with Public Funds?
For the past few years, half of the final exam in my Museum Practices graduate seminar in the Museum Studies Program at the University of Memphis consists of responding to the following: Put yourself...
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Implementing Co-Creative Projects
In my last post I talked about projects co-created during the Fall Semester by students in my Museum Practices graduate seminar at the University of Memphis. This week I report on implementing those...
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