Featuring profiles of outreach & advocacy in cultural heritage
by Sacha Mankins
The Mosaic Templars Cultural Center of Little Rock, Arkansas, celebrates the history and culture of Black Arkansans, with special emphasis on African-American fraternal organizations and black businesses. I recently spoke over the phone with the Cultural …
Welcome to LIS 476, Spring ’18!
We’ll be launching a new series of our Professional Profiles starting in early March. Each profile will feature an archivist or cultural heritage professional working in innovative and impactful ways to connect communities to …
Thanks dedicated readers and participants. The SLIS476 blog Archives Unboxed is now wrapping up for the Fall 2017 season. Stay tuned for more posts and cultural heritage projects coming in Spring 2018.
I will also be turning the reigns over …
by Anna Faherty
The Science Museum of Minnesota, located in downtown St. Paul on the Mississippi River, has been an important institution since its founding in 1907. Learn more about the museum at its website: https://www.smm.org/. At the science …
by Alden Ludlow
About a year ago I was tasked with putting together an exhibit for the small reading room at the Wellesley Historical Society. Having just reorganized and processed our Picture Postcard Collection, I decided it was ripe …
by Jenny DeRocher
La Crosse, Wisconsin is a city of about 50,000 people. It sits between tree-covered bluffs and the winding Mississippi River. The city’s downtown area is like many other industrial Mississippi River towns with traces of train tracks, …
by Ariel Barnes
The Rihanna Experience at the Museum of Science, Boston is a planetarium show unlike any other. For $10 visitors can listen to the greatest hits of Rihanna while being dazzled by a light show projected onto the …
by Jessica Chapel
You can’t cut an American president out of history. How, then, do you represent a president driven from office in disgrace and his complicated legacy? During a recent California trip, I took a detour on my way …
by Jessica Hoffman
Two large metal mushrooms loomed above me, barely obscured by the thin shield of wiry threads fencing them in. The room glowed with an otherworldly light. The air crackled with spiraling energy. Suddenly, the loudest noise I’d …