Sustaining Places

Have you seen the new look and resources for the Sustaining Places website? Check it out!

Sustaining Places An Encyclopedia of Resources for Small Historical Organizations

If you have gotten good information from Sustaining Places - PAY IT FORWARD! Consider a gift to the UD Museum Studies Program to support the Edward P. Alexander Fund which helps support paid internships for our students. If you donate on May 4th between 4 pm to 6 pm, there will be a match! Click the image for more information and to give. THANK YOU!!!

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On May 4, join Alli Schell, Director of Education, Marshall Steam Museum and Friends of Auburn Heights for this helpful session.

Even after COVID, many museums will continue to present online programs. Here’s a chance to share your ideas and pick up new ones, too.

This session is free and held on Zoom.

Register Here: https://zoom.us/.../tJEkfuqgrD4tGdyJigalcCJKmfqHB9ZqAAXJ

This is open to all, but you have to register, using the provided link.

Are you ready for the next installment of: Live from GW: Museums Today
Monthly Author Series

Wednesday, October 21, 6 PM EDT

AAMG is proud to partner with The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum to promote their ongoing author series in which, each month during the academic year, museum leaders lead lively discussions about critical issues in the museum field. Students from museum studies, museum education, and other related fields are invited to rub shoulders with long-time professionals and to create community with one another. Join us live from GW for critical conversations to improve our practice and support the careers of emerging museum professionals.

October's Topic of Discussion: For Love or Money: Confronting the State of Museum Salaries
Join us online for an engaging discussion with Kristina Durocher, Dawn Estabrooks Salerno, and Mark S. Gold, editors of the new book For Love or Money: Confronting the State of Museum Salaries.
About the Book

Low and unequal rates of pay have been endemic in the international museum profession for decades. For Love or Money dissects the cold, startling statistics about the shocking worldwide inequality of pay in the profession—and introduces the inspiring initiatives now being taken to resolve the problem once and for all. This authoritative book brings a highly critical focus to bear on both the causes and the resulting effects of pay inequality on staff and institutions. But it also proposes effective strategies to remedy the problem and defines the benefits which fair and equitable pay will achieve.

Presenters

Kristina Durocher, director, Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire

Dawn Estabrooks Salerno, executive director, Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum, New Bedford, MA

Mark S. Gold, partner, Smith Green & Gold LLP, Pittsfield, MA

In order to join in on the conversation, be sure to register by clicking here or copying and pasting the following: https://museum.gwu.edu/museums-today-love-or-money-confronting-state-museum-salaries

Here's a useful toolkit to help tour-givers think about what they share with visitors. We will add this to the SP website, too.

Tour Toolkit: Developing an Inclusive Tour Quire is a digital publishing framework built on top of the Hugo static site generator. Generate Web, PDF, and print books (with Epub coming soon) from a single …

You will find a good bibliography about deaccessioning (the fance term for thoughtful collection pruning) at the end of this post. Also, remember to check on the Sustaining Places website regularly for information on this and other topics.

Museum Association of New York - Stories Lost in Storage? How Deaccessioning Can Help

This is an interesting story of a historic site, controlled at present by the Nature Conservancy, that will have new stewards. What makes this especially interesting is that the Nature Conservancy has awarded the new nonprofit the sum of $200,000 to create a small endowment income.

Nonprofit to take over historic mill preservation Maintaining the mill, considered the best preserved in the country, moves from the Nature Conservancy to the nonprofit created by a neighbor.

We think that this is a great idea -- and easy to do! If you can't tackle a coloring book, coloring pages can be posted and shared with teachers as a freebie.

Pull out those colored pencils: Museums worldwide are offering free adult coloring books for download The library at the Mutter Museum is in on the fun. The week-long Color Our Collections includes images from similarly quirky museums around the world.

Congratulations to these small museums for their achievements in the StEPs program of the American Association for State and Local History! Check out StEPs and consider taking this accessible approach to accreditation.

Five Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in January | AASLH We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s …