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Poverty Point: Revealing the Forgotten City
Poverty Point: Revealing the Forgotten City by Jenny Ellerbe and Diana Greenlee (2015, Louisiana State University Press) contains a set of photographs and essays on the 3500 year old prehistoric...
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Public Access to Artifacts: A Problem or Opportunity?
Hands-On Lab in 2008 We are doing a major exhibit upgrade at the C.H. Nash Museum at Chucalissa. Here is a story – in the Spring of 2008 we launched our “Hands-on Archaeology Lab” drawing on some of...
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Applied Archaeology and Museums: The Student Projects
I posted last week about the Applied Archaeology and Museums class I taught this past semester at the University of Memphis. Forty percent of the course grade is from the final project that students...
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Creating a Participatory Archaeological Experience in Maryland
Kimberley Popetz This week’s post is an interview with Kimberley Popetz, the Director of Education at Maryland’s Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum. Kim directs an innovative, intensive and engaging...
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Response to American Digger, Part II
This semester I lead a seminar in Applied Archaeology and Museums at the University of Memphis. The first point of discussion in this past Monday night’s class was responding to comments made to my...
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Telling Visitors the Truth about Archaeological Research
I recently visited the Fort Ancient State Memorial where in 1992 I excavated the “most interesting thing I have ever found” in my archaeological field work. I remember the event well because the...
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Should Museums be Fun?
Is this fun? I have to admit a certain bias on this question of museums and fun. Off the top, I cannot recollect reading a museum mission statement that includes the word fun However, a recent blog...
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How an Exemplary Volunteer Program Thrives in Cincinnati
Bob Genheimer (lower right) with his volunteer field crew at Hahn Field excavations, Newtown Ohio This week’s post is an interview with Bob Genheimer, Curator of Archaeology at the Geier Collections...
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Google Art and the Virtual Museum Game
It’s been a while since I have posted anything about virtual museums, so here goes with a couple of new offerings and a couple that have been around . . . Google’s Art Project went online February 1....
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Volunteers & Career Choices
Ron Brister at the Pink Palace Family of Museums' Coon Creek Science Center I read a post this week on how early museum visits can impact career choice. This got me to thinking again about our museum...
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Participatory Archaeology – More Than a Hands-On Gig
Top Down Authority Interpretive Model. Adapted from Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach, p. 100, Fig. 4.1, 1998. Okay – this is a real get up on my soapbox and preach posting – kind of a continuation...
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Community Outreach with the Bamburgh Research Project
This week’s post features an interview with Rachael Barnwell of the Bamburgh Research Project. A village of about 500 in Northumberland, Bamburgh is on the northeast coast of England. In addition to...
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Public Outreach in North Carolina Archaelogy
The Research Laboratories of Archaeology lives within the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A pretty highfalutin sounding title and not necessarily a...
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Society for Georgia Archaeology, Public Outreach
A few weeks ago I posted about the Louisiana Division of Archaeology website and the wealth of online information they offer. Louisiana is not unique in their breadth of offerings. I find that in...
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