Featuring profiles of outreach & advocacy in cultural heritage
by Katy Purington
The Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania was the first federally-funded Indian boarding school in the United States. Founded in 1879 by Captain Richard Henry Pratt, it became the model for 26 other federal boarding …
by Kathleen Mackenzie
Walking the streets of Dublin today, reminders of the 1916 Easter Rising are scattered throughout the city. The armed rebellion against British rule launched a turbulent period that ultimately led to the establishment of the Republic of …
by Sacha Mankins
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is a Manhattan-based archive on Eastern European Jewish life before the Holocaust. YIVO (the name stands for Yiddisher Visnshaflikher Institut, Yiddish for “Jewish Scientific Institute”) was originally founded in the 1920s …
by Teresa M. Meléndez
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico (MAC), located in Santurce, one of the neighborhoods that make up San Juan, the island’s capital, organizes many events and projects that engage the Santurce community. One of …
by Natalie Kelsey
Some of my earliest cultural heritage-related memories are of the Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, NY. My father, an artist himself, brought me there as often as I wanted. The first piece I remember is …
by Jennifer Skarbek
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library houses over 400 collections surrounding the Kennedy administration from 1961-1963. While there are a large number of collections of governmental records, there are several lesser known collections of correspondence from the …
by Michelle Slater
The British Museum is a world renowned institution known for its rich history of collecting antiquities and priceless works of art from around the world. The Museum is open year-round for free to visitors in London, but …
by Thera Webb
The Digital Prison Archive is an outreach project for the Prison Public Memory Project, an organization that currently focuses on collecting and archiving stories and experiences from people connected to the three prisons in Hudson New York …
by Caroline Tanski
On May 1st, 1718, the Mission San Antonio de Valero (which would come to be known as the Alamo) was founded, and along with it the city of San Antonio, Texas. While activities will culminate …
by Rebecca Sasseville
There’s no avoiding the power of social media for a cultural heritage institution. It’s free and easy to use for accounts and followers alike. Social media is used by all walks a life, everywhere in the world. …
