Featuring profiles of outreach & advocacy in cultural heritage
by Ashley Thomas
Based upon social media popularity (over 11,000 interested attendees on Facebook for the March 15, 2019 event), you might suspect the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA)’s Late Nite program was a well-established staple in Boston’s cultural scene.…
by Alli Smith
Scott Wands is an advocate. He advocates for humanities programming at institutions across Connecticut. He advocates for building strong relationships with and within in the community. He advocates for rolling with the punches. In fact, he just …
by Jasmine Bonanca
In March of 1902, the Nichols family hosted a performance by Metropolitan Opera singer Louise Homer in their home on Beacon Hill. More than 100 years later, the Nichols family’s home, now the Nichols House Museum, brought …
by Maureen Coleman
The Sexual Minorities Archive (SMA) is in Holyoke, Massachusetts. The archive is a small community archive and is housed in a large pink house, dubbed the Pink Lady. The Pink Lady has multiple floors that are filled …
by Gaia Cloutier
On April 9, 2018 the Museum of English Rural Life (@TheMERL) tweeted an image of an extremely fat and woolly Exmoor Horn ram, captioning the image “look at this absolute unit.” The Internet went wild. The …
by Diana Beltrao de Macedo
The National Museum of Brazil was founded in 1818 by Dom Joao VI. Initially called Royal Museum and located at Rio de Janeiro, the space was created with the purpose of stimulating the scientific knowledge …
by Hannah Elder
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was created as the vision of its founder and namesake. Isabella Stewart Gardner created the museum as an aesthetic space, surrounding visitors with beauty and inviting them to think about the ways …
by Rachael Allen
“Ask yourself: what might it mean for reading—and knowledge—to be universally accessible? What would that look, feel, or sound like?” This is what the exhibit Touch This Page! Making Sense of the Ways We Read asks its …
by Jade Mejia
In my interview with Nadia Dixson, the City of Somerville’s archivist, we had an illuminating conversation on advocacy and the many ways it can be expressed. During our conversation we went over three main points: 1.) What …
by Emily Mathay
Victor T. Mastone (he insists you call him ‘Vic’) is an expert on shipwrecks. As Director and Chief Archaeologist for the Massachusetts Board of Underwater Archaeological Resources (BUAR), he’s the one to call about any project involving …