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Finding History Where You Least Expect It: Site-Based Strategies for Teaching About the Past(American Alliance of Museums)

Finding History Where You Least Expect It: Site-Based Strategies for Teaching About the Past(American Alliance of Museums)


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Museums and cultural institutions of all sizes and budgets are striving to remain relevant in an ever-changing landscape. This volume looks at organizations that have challenged the preconceived notions about their site and its mission by working to break into new markets and develop unexpected programs for diverse and previously untapped audiences. To address this challenge, several western New York sites developed new programs to impact their visitor engagement. History Where You Least Expect It! Site-based Strategies for Teaching about the Past features programs like learning from gingerbread, playing vintage games, developing a theatrical production from places like science museums, archives, historic houses, nature centers, and cemeteries to illustrate how history can be conveyed in the most unlikely ways. While other works exist that have examined educational pedagogy and programming according to museum type, History Where You Least Expect It!Site-based Strategies for Teaching about the Past explores history through the lens of a specific program. This volume highlights how museum programming, object-based learning, and site-specific education can impact learning for people of all ages. In each chapter, the reader is walked through the development, implementation, and successes of the organization’s programs, allowing practitioners the ability to learn from the work of others in order to build a successful program for themselves. While the featured institutions are regionally linked, the overarching goal of experiencing History Where You Least Expect It! can be replicated across the globe.

Table of Contents:
Contents Preface Acknowledgements 1. Freedom Conversations: Connecting Past to Present with Facilitated Dialogue Christine Bacon 2. “The Most Boring Thing in the World”: Scrapbooks and the Archives Daniel DiLandro 3. enLIGHTening the Past Corey Fabian-Barrett 4. Art as History: Illustrating your Community’s Past Michele Graves 5. Vintage Game Night @ the TR Site Lenora Henson 6. Learning History One Family at a Time Suzanne Jacobs 7. The Extinct Birds Project Jane Johnson, Twan Leenders, and Alberto Rey 8. History in a Science Museum? Kathryn H. Leacock 9. “I Cannot Vote but I Can be Voted For”: A Girl Scout Badge Program Ann Marie Linnabery 10. At Rest in the Weeds: The Restoration of Institutional Cemeteries David Mack-Hardiman 11. Windows to History: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House Light Screens Gina Miano 12. Cooking Up History: Learning from Gingerbread Jean Neff 13. Bound in History: Handcrafting Books on the Roycroft Campus Alan Nowicki and Amizetta Haj 14. History Around the Block: Neighborhood Archaeology Elizabeth S. Peña and Kristen Gasser 15. A Peek Beyond the Veil: “Spiritualist Shorts” at Lily Dale Amanda Shepp 16. Tracing the Past for the Present and Future: An Artist in Residence Program Nancy Spector 17 .Getting You In the Holiday ‘Spirit’: It WAS a Wonderful Life! Sandy Starks 18. All Are Welcome: The Museum as a Stage for Community Dialogue Tara L. Walker Bibliography Index About the Editors and Contributors

About the Author :
Jill M. Gradwell is Professor, SUNY Buffalo State. Kathryn H. Leacock is Director of Collections at the Buffalo Museum of Science.

Review :
This book offers creative, replicable ideas for museums—including small museums—looking to leave those age-old ways of doing things behind. Not only does it underscore the importance of community engagement, partnerships, and audience focus but it also reveals the rich tapestry of local history that one region can offer.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781538140895
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: American Alliance Of Museums
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 194
  • Sub Title: Site-Based Strategies for Teaching About the Past
  • ISBN-10: 1538140896
  • Publisher Date: 21 Apr 2020
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: American Alliance of Museums
  • Width: 152 mm


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