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Help us spread the word! In a new IMLS special initiative, small and rural libraries can receive up to $50K for school library, community memory or digital inclusion projects. Deadline is Feb. 25th.Mountain-Plains Museums Association
" . . . began to throw numerous sculptures across the room causing them to break and began shattering other art sculptures into the ground . . ."Awful news. Positive thoughts to our colleagues.
Does your museum have a plan to deal with such an incident?
NEW internship opportunity! Hastings Museum is looking for an intern to help with a major collections upgrade project.
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Job Announcements Internship Hastings Museum of Natural and Cultural History Hastings, Nebraska The Hastings Museum of Natural and Cultural History has started a major collections upgrade project a…Connecting to Collections Care Online Community
Join us December 12th for our final free webinar of the year, Packing and Crating Basics, www.connectingtocollections.org/packing-and-crating-basics/2:00-3:30 EST. This webinar will cover packing items for transit as well as packing objects for storage.
Mountain-Plains Museums Association
Call for panelists: 2019 MPMA/NMAM Joint ConferenceNational Council on Public History - NCPH
Remember to submit for the Robinson Prize, Excellence in Consulting Awards, Outstanding Project Award, and New Professional Travel grants by Friday, December 1! ncph.org/about/awards/
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It was a lot of fun setting up Water Ways. It's done and here at the Nebraska Prairie Museum. Stop in while it's here until December 21st!
Be sure to check out "Dress Code" at the Elkhorn Valley Museum curatored with help from these amazing students from Wayne State College.Special thank you: to these Wayne State College fashion students, who contributed to "Dress Code: Frills, Fashion & Function in Northeast Nebraska" through WSC Service-Learning; and to our Ponca Tribe of Nebraska friends who presented their regalia at the opening! Thank you to everyone who joined us Friday night.
"Dress Code" is now on view, through April.
We have begun again to post on our museum's Facebook page as we move into the next chapter of our storied history with the hiring of a new executive director, Peter Osborne last week. Peter has had a long career in public history and is the author of fifteen books including two on the state parks where General George Washington crossed the Delaware River in 1776. Here he is in front of of two reproduction Durham boats that were used to cross the river at The Crossing as it is known to historians. Peter was also the author of a biography of Elizabeth Grandin, one of Robert Henr's most famous students. While we will forgive him for being an Easterner, he now hails from Red Cloud, Nebraska, home to Willa Cather, one of our state's most famous authors. He came to the Midwest because of his long love of Cather's work.
More to come as we continue to tell the story of Robert Henri, one of America's most famous artists and who has a Nebraska chapter in his life's history.
The Robert Henri Museum and Galley
Cozad, Nebraska
www.roberthenrimuseum.org