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As digital content & outreach coordinator for Hopkins Retrospective, I also attended the conference, and want to offer my takeaways. I attended over half a dozen sessions, many of them offering new perspectives on public history work.
This year’s NCPH conference centered on the theme of Solidarity/Solidarité, echoing historical and contemporary calls for worker solidarity. And as NCPH President Denise Meringolo shared, “Solidarity/Solidarité invites us to work together to rediscover our shared heritage and to build new understanding of the beauty and complexity of human experience.”
With University of Baltimore & more to come Sharing freely and sharing widely! For the benefit of current scholars, the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins and Robert L. Bogomolny Library […]
The Johns Hopkins University Museums mourn the recent passing of Aurelia Garland Bolton, a stalwart supporter who had an exceptionally long history with and fierce devotion to Homewood.
WAIT, don’t click away! Of COURSE you’re tired of being swamped with info about artificial intelligence (AI). You realize that you should know at least a little about it, but […]
As 2023 draws to a close, Lori Beth Finkelstein, Director of the JHU Museums, took a moment to reflect on all the activities and accomplishments at Evergreen and Homewood over the past year.
We’re now deep into baking season, and while 2023’s apple harvest was a mixed bag nationally, Homewood Museum’s orchard of mostly apple (and a few pear) trees over-performed. As the […]
It is often said that the Johns Hopkins University Museums are laboratories of learning. Homewood Museum and Evergreen Museum & Library certainly lived up to that reputation in 2023, hosting […]
Dear Friends, On behalf of the Sheridan Libraries & University Museums, I express our profound sadness at the passing on Sunday of Sylvia Eggleston Wehr, the trailblazing development doyenne who […]
By some metrics, Mexico City has more museums than any other city in the world. While this oft-quoted statistic is somewhat contentious on the internet, it’s undeniable that the city’s […]