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Behind-the-Scenes Tours

Has your institution ever tried or even considered storage area tours? Recently, there was a spirited discussion about this topic on the RCAAM listserv (Registrar’s Committee of the American Alliance… more →

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Behind-the-Scenes Tours — 1 comment

collectionsconversations wrote 2 months ago: Has your institution ever tried or even considered storage area tours? Recently, there was a spirite … more →

Tags: collections care, Storage, fundraising, RCAAM, museum security, Ackland Art Museum

Coproduction & Co-creation with Volunteers — 4 comments

Robert Connolly wrote 3 months ago: A few weeks ago Ennis Barbery wrote here about coproduction with the public in archaeology.  In muse … more →

Tags: archaeology, Education, Public Outreach, Museums, Chucalissa, C.H. Nash Museum, The Participatory Museum, Volunteer

Traveling Trunks Reach Audiences Beyond the Doors of Your Museum

collectionsconversations wrote 4 months ago: Thanks to Kaitlin Lloyd, Distance Learning Coordinator at the North Carolina Museum of History, for … more →

Tags: Public programs, Guest Bloggers, community engagement, NC Museum of History, Traveling Trunks, curriculum, Museum Education, lesson plans, Kaitlin Lloyd

13 Recommendations for 2013 Collections Resolutions

collectionsconversations wrote 4 months ago: Draft or update a 5-year strategic plan for collections improvements. Verify or update all staff and … more →

Tags: collections care, Connecting to Collections, Workshops, Disaster Preparedness, NCMC, Assessments, Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies, Preservation Week, NCPC

Wishing You a Lucky 2013

collectionsconversations wrote 4 months ago: H.1953.39.48 We’re pulling out some traditional good luck symbols from the NC Department of Cu … more →

Tags: Black Eyed Peas, four-leaf clover

To Show or Not To Show? — 1 comment

collectionsconversations wrote 5 months ago: Confederate General Patrick Cleburne’s frock coat is currently on exhibit at the Museum of the Confe … more →

Tags: Exhibitions, Museums, audience participation, Conservation, Museum of the Confederacy, Patrick Cleburne, Insect Damage, cathy wright

C2C's Crowdsourcing Experiment — 2 comments

collectionsconversations wrote 5 months ago: Three weeks ago we posted a discussion here about Artifact Controversies. While we hoped to inspire … more →

Tags: Museums, Public programs, North Carolina Museum of History, John Campbell, Mary Ellen Riddle, LeRae Umfleet, Cheryl McLean, nc echo, Government & Heritage Library

Winter Weather Awareness Week

collectionsconversations wrote 5 months ago: Raleigh 1884: A group of men gaze at a snow sculpture of a woman with a bustle skirt. (H.1955.21.10) … more →

Tags: Disaster Preparedness, NCDCR collection, mount mitchell, bustle, snow sculpture, Sparta, snowstorms

Archaeology and Open Authority

Robert Connolly wrote 5 months ago: The guest post below is written by Elizabeth Bollwerk.  I met Beth a couple of years ago in the sess … more →

Tags: archaeology, Digital Museum, museum, Museum Computer Network, Outreach Program, Public Outreach, Social Media

Artifact Controversies

collectionsconversations wrote 6 months ago: Looking for a new way to engage your museum’s participants with its collections? An exhibit called “ … more →

Tags: Exhibitions, Museums, Public programs, Visitor Participation, audience participation, AASLH, North Carolina Museum of History, Controversy, Ohio History Center

Skeletons in Your Closet?

collectionsconversations wrote 6 months ago: Thanks to Stephen Claggett, State Archaeologist, for the following guest post. Or, how about human t … more →

Tags: collections care, Exhibitions, archaeology, Guest Bloggers, Stephen Claggett, Human remains, NAGPRA, NC General Statutes

Archives Week Commemorates Civil Rights

collectionsconversations wrote 6 months ago: State Archives collection N-77-4-137 This is Archives Week, a time to raise awareness about the impo … more →

Tags: Exhibitions, Public programs, Society of North Carolina Archivists (SNCA), State Archives research room, Lauren Jones, Elliott Erwitt, Saint Agnes Hospital, Ambassador Theater, Brady's Restaurant

Understanding Copyright Restrictions

collectionsconversations wrote 7 months ago: Do not let uncertainty about copyrights derail your museum’s potential project. There are now many r … more →

Tags: Exhibitions, Museums, Public programs, Library Of Congress, American Library Association, fair-use, calculated risk

The Beauty and the Grit — 2 comments

collectionsconversations wrote 7 months ago: Reynolda House interior What impulses drive some of us to try snatching glimpses of the past by visi … more →

Tags: Exhibitions, Historic Sites, historic houses, Public programs, Thomas Wolfe Memorial State Historic Site, Reynolda House, Aycock Birthplace, civil war reenactors

Holiday Ornaments

collectionsconversations wrote 7 months ago: There is still time to create and/ or consign holiday ornaments as special souvenirs that your site … more →

Tags: Museums, fundraising, Mount Airy Museum of Regional History, Customized Products, North Carolina Museum of History, mint museum, Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum, Charleston Mint

Artifact Adoption Addendum

collectionsconversations wrote 8 months ago: part of a wedding dress currently up for adoption at the Museum of the Albemarle It’s been awhile no … more →

Tags: Connecting to Collections, Workshops, Museums, Public programs, fundraising, Museum of the Albemarle, Meegan Carr, National Quilt Museum

Introducing the Gathering Place Project

collectionsconversations wrote 8 months ago: Michelle Lanier This fall through 2014, the outreach efforts of the North Carolina Department of Cul … more →

Tags: collections care, Connecting to Collections, Workshops, Museums, Historic Sites, imls, grants, Michelle Lanier, Schree Greene

Museum Amenities

collectionsconversations wrote 8 months ago: How does your institution provide for the comfort of its visitors? Does your site include a café or … more →

Tags: Museums, Historic Sites, Public programs, Facilities, Accommodations, Leigh Swain, Bath State Historic Site, marbles childrens museum, nursing rooms

Carolina Parakeet Sightings

collectionsconversations wrote 8 months ago: Most museums preserve the memories of lives long lost. At times, the content of cultural heritage co … more →

Tags: Exhibitions, Museums, North Carolina Museum of Art, Duke University, UNC Chapel Hill's Wilson Library, William "Bill" Powell, john lawson, A New Voyage to Carolina, Museum of Forestry


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