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The outward-facing content of your museum’s collections should, ideally, be well-organized, effectively presented, and facilitate your viewers’ understanding. An excellent digital exhibit provides increased access to your museum’s collections, allows for ongoing engagement with materials, and can inspire members of …
Your company has a compelling story to tell. The people and enterprises that your company serves need to hear that story. At History Associates, we believe that every company, association, and agency has an authentic history to share, and we …
Museums and arts institutions are often challenged to secure the resources necessary to pursue new initiatives. Despite being anchor institutions and employers in many of their communities, museums have experienced both long-term budget shortfalls and temporary budget slashes. Even without …
As a museum director or curator, you know the value of your collections, in terms of both historical significance and emotional impact on your visitors. Digitizing your existing collections can make them accessible to more people in more places so …
Did you know that on average, over 95% of most museums’ collections are not on public display at any given time? With so many historic and important objects in storage held in the “public trust,” museums everyday are faced with …
By Nicholas Redding, President & CEO Preservation Maryland On a rainy evening in 2018, a police cruiser lost control and slammed into a small, 1,000-square-foot home at 417 North Jonathan Street in Hagerstown, a small city in rural Washington County, …
For more than 27 years, the African American Heritage Preservation Foundation (AAHPF) has advocated to mitigate the threat to endangered African American sites across the United States. The Founder and President, E. Renee Ingram, was driven to save her family …
As a historical research company, we’re honored to be collaborating with the Sugarland Ethno-History Project (SEHP), an organization working to preserve and share the legacy of a historic African American community established by formerly enslaved Maryland residents circa 1880. With …
By Scott Vierick, Historian A well-written and researched corporate history is a powerful asset for any organization. An experienced corporate historian can go beyond a simple celebratory account and can write an insightful, compelling, and accurate official corporate history that …
By Justin Broubalow, Research Historian In May 2021, Canadian First Nation (indigenous) investigators found the remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, buried in unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. …
By Margaret Long, Archivist As a company that specializes in history and archiving, one of our frequent recommendations to archival or collections management clients is to implement a pest management program. This guards against any creature—insect or mammal— that poses …
By Jen Giambrone, Historian It’s HAI’s 40th anniversary! Founded in 1981, History Associates Incorporated has grown and evolved quite a bit over the past four decades. Our founders, historians Phil Cantelon, Richard Hewlett, Rodney Carlisle, and Robert Williams, realized that …
