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(Re)building Museums: Reflections on the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums 2021 Symposium

By Megan Anderson, Manager of Exhibits & Interpretive Planning As we approach the end of March and the sprint towards April, everyone in the museum or institutional field has hit their pandemic
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Lean In and Let Go: Creative Team Building in Small Museums

By Dr. Stephanie Fuglaar Statz, Senior Historian My first day as director of a very small museum in a rural town was unlike any first day I had ever had. There was
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How to Transform Your Digital Assets to Drive Online Engagement

Guest post by Chris Cummings, Pass It Down Turn history into your greatest storyteller! Our favorite tips for optimizing online engagement with your digital assets. In the first post of our partner
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Laying the Foundation for Storytelling: Tips for Digital Transformation & Sustainability

By Laura Starr, Certified Archivist, HAI Engagement Strategist & Account Manager This blog was created in conjunction with our friends at Pass It Down, a company with an award-winning digital exhibit builder
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Reopenings: The Mob Museum

By Megan Anderson, Manager of Exhibits & Interpretive Planning Our friends at the Mob Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada, reopened their doors to the public at the end of May when state
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Reopenings: Whitesbog Historic Village

By Megan Anderson, Manager of Exhibits & Interpretive Planning Unlike most museums, the Whitesbog Historic Village in Browns Mills, New Jersey, is primarily an outdoor site, so hasn’t faced some of the
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Risk, Reward, and Reopening: The Dilemma Facing Cultural Institutions

By Megan Anderson, Manager of Exhibits & Interpretive Planning As we enter August – and our sixth month since COVID-19 turned life in the U.S. upside down– many museums and historical sites
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Breaking Ground: The United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum Opens to the Public

By Mimi Eisen, Historian Last week, the United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum (USOPM) in Colorado Springs first opened to the public, and HAI is proud to have worked with design firm
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Malady & Memory: Historic Sites that Preserve the Legacy of Resisting Disease

By Scott Vierick, Historian Disease and pandemics have always been a part of human history, but for every illness, there have been countless people who have worked to study and create treatments
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