Update: Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties
The National Park Service has issued an updated version of the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties with Guidelines for Preserving, Rehabilitating, Restoring,...
View ArticleReview: Historic House Museums in the US and UK by Linda Young (2017)
Historic House Museums in the United States and the United Kingdom: A History by Linda Young. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. v + 299 pp.; bibliography, index; clothbound, $85.00; eBook,...
View ArticleAdvice for Future Consultants and Freelancers
Because I have a successful consulting practice, friends and colleagues occasionally ask for guidance on starting their own business. Working for yourself is thrilling, which can be both joyous and...
View ArticleReimagining House Museums: Fall 2019 Release
This blog has been fairly sparse this past year because Ken Turino and I were editing and assembling two dozens essays for Reimagining Historic House Museums: New Approaches and Proven Solutions, an...
View ArticleRecent Research on Common Target Audiences for Museums
Students in “Museums and Community Engagement” develop engagement plans through a wide variety of tools and techniques, including crowdsourcing research on target audiences. This semester my course on...
View ArticleRevealing the Big Ideas in Reimagining Historic Sites
At long last, Ken Turino and I have gotten Reimagining Historic House Museums off of our desks and it was released at the American Association for State and Local History annual meeting in...
View ArticleReimagining Historic House Museums: Observations From the Field
Reimagining Historic House Museums (2019) This afternoon Ken Turino and I will share the common factors that create a sustainable path forward for our country’s historic places. We’ll be drawing from...
View ArticleMarch Webinars for House Museums and Historic Sites
It’s a webinar bonanza at Engaging Places this month! We’ll be participating in two different back-to-back webinars in March for house museums and historic sites, one on interpreting women’s history...
View ArticleNew! Interpreting Slavery with Children and Teens
Interpreting Slavery with Children and Teens by Kristin Gallas will be released this month. Kristin Gallas, co-editor of Interpreting Slavery at Museums and Historic Sites (2015) and a contributor to...
View ArticleHow can History-Focused Organizations Invest in Stability?
Figure 1. History-Focused Organizations command large portions of the museum field’s revenue and institutions. Source: Internal Revenue Services and National Center for Charitable Statistics. Over the...
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