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Tag Archives: National Postal Museum
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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Siteseeing: Visiting Museum Exhibits Online
A dear friend of mine is the new mother of an adorable baby boy. Now that she has lots of time at home, she asked that I write a blog post about online museum experiences, ways to visit exhibits from … Continue reading
Posted in Lists of Museums, National Postal Museum
Tagged American Museum of Natural History, Anne Frank House, British Museum, Colonial Williamsburg, DC, France, Louvre, MA, MIT Museum, MN, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, National Gallery of Art, National Portrait Gallery UK, National Postal Museum, Netherlands, New York Hall of Science, NY, online exhibits, Tate, UK, VA, Walker Art Center
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Challenges in Interpreting Challenger
I was three years old on January 28, 1986, when the Challenger disaster occurred; I have no personal where-were-you-when memories of the event. Years later, someone told me that everyone who worked at NASA knew that the seven astronauts would … Continue reading
Hanging Out at Hirshhorn’s ARTLAB +
The first morning of my spring semester internship at the National Postal Museum, in January 2010, I was whisked off along with my supervisor to a meeting about a possible pair of digital learning centers to be built at two … 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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Remaining Stamptues
My temporary position at the Capitol Visitor Center has ended (I will write more about what I learned at the CVC, and what adventures will come next, in a later post). My projects of finding and photographing the 100 statues … Continue reading
Stamptuary Hall: Daniel Webster
Art honoring Daniel Webster can be found in the Capitol beyond just his statue (from New Hampshire, located in Statuary Hall), and for good reason. He served as a Representative and a Senator, and he argued on behalf of Dartmouth … Continue reading
Stamptuary Hall: Henry Clay
Henry Clay’s prominent career in Congress has been honored in many ways: stamps, including one whose First Day of Issue ceremony was held in the Old Senate Chamber where Clay argued for the preservation of the union in the buildup … Continue reading
Stamptuary Hall: Junipero Serra
Junipero Serra, one of California’s two statues in the National Statuary Hall collection, was an explorer and Catholic missionary who has been featured on stamps in both the United States and Vatican City. His statue at the Capitol can be … Continue reading
Stamptuary Hall: John Hanson
John Hanson is from my own home state, Maryland. As first president of the Continental Congress during the time of the Articles of Confederation, Hanson established post offices, though stamps would not come about in the USA until 1847. In … Continue reading
