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Tag Archives: Museum Education Program
Museum Education Students’ Museum Field Trips: Third Semester
Most of spring 2010 was spent at the National Postal Museum (NPM). I interned there four days a week, working on a unit called Heroes on Stamps to be used in after-school programs (and falling in love with the museum’s … Continue reading
Posted in Museum Visits (Other), National Postal Museum, Photos
Tagged Cultural Resources Center, DC, MD, museum, Museum Education Program, National Museum of the American Indian, National Portrait Gallery, National Postal Museum, Ripley Center, Smithsonian Museum Support Center, United States Botanic Garden, Walters Art Museum
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AIDS Memorial Quilt in DC
Earlier this month, I volunteered at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and helped set up and monitor the AIDS Memorial Quilt. For the next five-or-so days, 50+ locations in the DC area will also display parts of the quilt. These locations … Continue reading
Museum Education Students’ Museum Field Trips: Second Semester
In fall 2009, I had a two-day-per-week internship paired with a weekly seminar on learning theory, as well as two other courses: Museum Audiences and American Folklife. The internship consisted of spending 16 hours a week immersing myself in a … Continue reading
Posted in Museum Visits (Other), Museums and Holidays, Newseum, Photos
Tagged museum, DC, MD, Washington National Cathedral, Mormon Temple Visitors Center, historic house of worship, national park, VA, Museum Education Program, Newseum, Library of Congress, Torpedo Factory, holidays, Christmas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, libraries, parks, Rock Creek Park, Ripley Center, Discovery Theater
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Museum Education Students’ Museum Field Trips: First Semester
Museum education students spend a lot of time thinking about museum field trips – typically, the visits undertaken by busloads of schoolchildren. But what about the museum education students themselves? In the Museum Education Program at George Washington University, we … Continue reading
Bishop’s Garden at Washington National Cathedral
In The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown describes Washington National Cathedral as “a refuge in Rome, north of the Tiber, which contains ten stones from Mount Sinai, one from heaven itself, and one with the visage of Luke’s dark father.” It … Continue reading
Week 11: Goddard Visitor Center
Goddard Space Flight Center mission: to expand our knowledge of Earth, the solar system, and the universe through observations from space and through scientific discovery. It was somewhat of a milestone in the Weekly Museum Visits project: someone specifically asked … Continue reading
2010 National Postal Museum Internship
An online exhibit and a post in the National Postal Museum’s blog, both written by me about the Heroes on Stamps unit for after-school programs that served as the main project of my internship, are now online.
Posted in National Postal Museum
Tagged DC, museum, Museum Education Program, National Postal Museum, Smithsonian
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Good NEWS
Later this month, I will begin a part-time job at the Newseum as a Visitor Services Representative. I’m excited that I’ll be paid to spend time at this huge museum that I have visited, but whose half-dozen floors I have … Continue reading
Museum Educators, Reunited
The Museum Education Program at George Washington University provided not just an education and a degree, but also 14 new friends. Our small cohort took most of our classes together, met frequently outside of class to work on our many … Continue reading
