Monday, March 26, 2012
Museum of Frederick County History
24 East Church Street, Frederick, MD 21701
Monday, March 26, 2012
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.


This workshop will feature hands-on activities to address basic museum collections questions. The intended audience is those with just a little experience and lots of questions about how to properly take care of your museum’s stuff. Join us for a day where you will learn a lot and have some fun, too. Lunch and materials are included in your registration fee.

RSVP!!
Email: MAlexander@mdp.state.md.us
Fee: $20 – Make checks payable to:
Maryland Association of History Museums
Mail to: Tiffany Davis
College Park Aviation Museum
1985 Corporal Frank Scott Drive
College Park, MD 20740

You are invited to participate in this exciting museum workshop, 

 

Incorporating Visitors into Museum Interpretation

 

Friday, January 13, 2012

 

The first workshop in a brand-new series:

“Creating the Visitor-Centered Museum”

 

This workshop series is one of only 10 museum programs in the nation supported by the

Institute of Museum and Library Services' 21st Century Museum Professionals Grant program.

 

Registration form and additional information should be attached to this email.

If it is not, please follow the following link to this workshop series' website to download and form and to learn more about this project:

Creating the Visitor-Centered Museum website

 

The day’s sessions will cover:

What is Interpretation?

Customer Service and Interpretation

Being a Presence and Keeping the Visitors’ Attention

Recent Research on Visitor-Directed Interpretation

 

This interactive, engaging workshop will be hosted at

Historic London Town and Gardens.

 839 Londontown Road; Edgewater, MD 21037

 

$10 for students

$25 general registration fee

$15 for staff and volunteers of supporting organizations

Lunch included in price. 

 

 

For more information, or if you want to register by phone with a credit card,

please contact Rod Cofield at

410-222-1919 x206 or rodcofield@historiclondontown.org

 

  

This workshop and the workshop series are a jointly-sponsored project of:

Historic London Town and Gardens

Maryland Association of History Museums

Maryland Historical Trust

  

     Thanks to a 21st Century Museums Professionals grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Historic London Town and Gardens, in partnership with the Maryland Historical Trust and Maryland Association of History Museums, will be offering a series of twelve workshops during the next three years for museum staff and volunteers.  This workshop series, “Creating a Visitor-Centered Museum,” will help area museums explore how their museums can become more engaging, educating, and fascinating places to visit.

 

This workshop series is also supported by:

Four Rivers: The Heritage Area of Annapolis, London Town & South County

Historic Annapolis Foundation

Watermark

Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area

Sotterley Plantation

The project is made possible through a 21^st-Century Museum Professionals grant awarded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services.

For more information about this particular grant award and the grant program in general, follow this link.

We are pleased to announce an exciting new partnership between the Maryland Association of History Museums and the American Association of Museums’ Museum Assessment Program. MAHM and AAM are partnering to offer an opportunity for Maryland museums who want to participate in MAP to be part of a state working group.  This opportunity is special for MAHM members.

 

This state working group will give you three times the support to work through the Museum Assessment Program. You will have the support of AAM, MAHM and each other as you work through the MAP self-study, prepare for the peer review site visit and begin implementing report recommendations. The MAP Maryland Working Group will have several opportunities to meet in person as well as a special online community available for virtual meetings and discussions. The MAP-Quest Working group will give you an opportunity to share ideas, find solutions to problems, and direct your MAP journey onto a superhighway.

 

Participation in MAP is free to $750, depending on your operating budget. To participate in the MAP Maryland working group, you will need to apply to MAP for the December 1 deadline and let MAHM know that you’re interested in joining the working group at:  mahm1634@gmail.com.   Space is limited in the MAP Maryland Working Group. You can contact Jill Connors-Joyner at jconnors-joyner@aam-us.org with any questions about MAP.

 

We hope you’ll join us on this “road trip” – it will be a MAP to success!

 

Best,

 

Pam Williams

MAHM still has a couple of StEPS grants available to Maryland's museums.  If you are interested in applying, please see the attached form.

Welcome to the new website for the Maryland Association of History Museums.  We hope you take the time to learn about our advocacy efforts, our programs, and other museum-related news.