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The Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest’s opportunity to house its entire collection at the University of Minnesota’s Anderson Library has freed up the organization to allow it to develop and focus on interpretation, outreach and education. Print PDF
History Overnight
by David Grabitske
on October 6, 2010
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· in Collections, Education, Fundraising, Interpretation, Local History Standards, Marketing, Nonprofit Issues, Security, Visitation
MinnPost on Saturday October 2, 2010, ran an article on Linden Hills, a two-mansion historic site complex in Little Falls, that discussed the competing concerns when a house museum allows for overnight stays. This blend between historic house museum and bed & breakfast is not surprising considering the economic times. Small nonprofits need to look under [...]
This was a session at the AASLH Conference in Oklahoma City last week. The point was that the emotionally charged questions and those questions that require a complex, nuanced answer are precisely the kinds of questions that bring people to visit historical organizations. Although these may make tour guides cringe, these kinds of questions bring [...]
Reconciling Modern Users with History
by David Grabitske
on March 29, 2010
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The Sunday March 21, 2010, St. Paul Pioneer Press carried an interview between Dan Carr of “The Collaborative” and Gov. Tim Pawlenty. In the interview, Gov. Pawlenty makes a statement that “we have a government that is kind of a 1940s industrial model in a world that is becoming an iPad. Those two things are going [...]
Finding eTime with Children
by David Grabitske
on January 25, 2010
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· in Information Technology, Interpretation, Marketing, Visitation
USA Today carried the story Kids’ electronic media use jumps to 53 hours a week. If one goal of local historical organizations is to be where people are, and children spend 53 hours a week on average with electronic gadgets, what should local history museums be thinking about? One approach might be to embrace all [...]
Public historians have long commented that to know a cemetery is to know a community. A recent article in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minnesota leads Midwest in a hot trend: cremation, highlights a growing challenge to this statement. What might local historical organizations do to document disposition of the dead for future genealogists? Will [...]
Vertically integrated all along
by David Grabitske
on December 2, 2009
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· in Collections, Digitization, Exhibits, Information Technology, Interpretation, Visitation
For decades business leaders have suggested that governments and nonprofits would do well to follow the example of business by becoming more specialized, flatter organizations. A recent Wall Street Journal blog talks about how some businesses are now reversing their decades old pursuit of specialization in favor of vertical integration: controlling raw materials, manufacturing, and distribution. [...]
It’s mid-April, which takes me back to my days of working as an interpreter at historic sites. At this time of year the buildings are cleaned, last minute minor repairs are performed, kits of clothing and props are issued and inspected, and all of this is done to prepare for the public. Of all the [...]
Three recent articles on MinnPost highlight what journalists suggest are 150 things that happened in Minnesota that would have been nice if they had not taken place. What do local historians have to say about this list? What value might there be in commemorating the ugly and the disasterous? How complete is this list? What [...]
Boy Scout Centennial Traveling Exhibit
by David Grabitske
on February 29, 2008
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· in Advice, Available, Collections, Education, Exhibits, Interpretation, Partnerships
The North Star Museum of Boy Scouting and Girl Scouting plans to produce a traveling exhibit that would be available to county and local historical societies beginning in the Boy Scouts of America‘s centennial year of 2010. The exhibit will be similar to the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit Service‘s (SITES) “Museum on Main Street” program: easy-to-install [...]
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