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  • My Favourite History Place: The Tenement Museum, New York

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    The Tenement Museum is not remotely like any museum I had previously visited. It is an old tenement building where generations of New York migrants lived and loved, worked and had families before moving both on and out. The Tenement Museum tells the story of the Lower East Side through the...
    My Favourite History Place: The Tenement Museum, New York
  • Public History Courses

      Continuing Professional Development
    What is Public History? Public History is about understanding how the past has affected, and is used by, the present. It brings history to life and helps us understand the relationship between the past and the public at present. Public History can involve history in the community, and a Public...
    Public History Courses
  • Research Methods in Heritage, Museums & Galleries

      Reading List
    Reading List for those interested in research methods in heritage, museums and galleries from Newcastle University... Essential Reading Dicks, Bella, From Mine to Museum: The Evolution of Heritage in the Rhondda in Heritage, place, and community by Dicks, Bella University of Wales Press, 2000  Dicks, Bella, Heritage and Local Memory in...
    Research Methods in Heritage, Museums & Galleries
  • Museum Education

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    Museum Education Reading List provided by the Victoria and Albert Museum Allen, D. A. 'Museums and Education.' Museums in Modern Life: Seven Papers Read Before the Royal Society of the Arts in March, April and May 1949, 86-106. London: RSA, 1949. NAL pressmark: 22.N.17 American Association of Museums. Excellence and...
    Museum Education
  • Museum & Gallery Courses

      Continuing Professional Development
    Museum & Gallery Courses
  • Volunteering in Museums & Galleries

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    The Museums Association has written a short guide to volunteering with museums. Tips on volunteering Don't limit your efforts to national and large regional museums and galleries. They are probably overwhelmed with requests for voluntary work Apply to smaller local museums. You are likely to get a broader range of...
    Volunteering in Museums & Galleries