Online Course: Museum Education and Outreach

An AASLH Small Museum Pro! Online Course

 

At their heart, regardless of type or size, museums are engaging, dynamic places of education. This AASLH online course, Museum Education and Outreach, is about how we can facilitate visitors’ meaningful and memorable experiences in the informal environments of museums.

 

This course requires regular check-ins, sharing and commenting on peer work, and participation in scheduled live chats. Participants will help shape the flow of the course in addition to providing resources and insights on each other’s work. Assignments are made weekly to allow for regular feedback and dialogue. While work can be done at your own pace, meeting deadlines is encouraged to maximize the experience. Throughout the course you will develop a toolkit of strategies, policies, and documents ready for immediate implementation.

 

Details: https://learn.aaslh.org/p/event-outreach-2019sep

CREDIT: Successful completion of this course will earn one credit toward the Small Museum Pro! certificate from AASLH.

COURSE DATES: September 9 – November 1, 2019

COST: $195 AASLH Members / $295 Nonmembers

OPEN REGISTRATION: July 1 – September 4, 2019; 30 Participant limit

 

Who Should Take This Course

This course is a beginning level course designed for professional staff and volunteers of historical organizations and libraries with historical collections who have little to no experience with developing education programs and goals for museums. Successful participants should be ready to look past traditional methods and challenge themselves to work around site-specific hurdles.

 

Instructor

Tanya Brock is one who tends to take leaps and jumps rather than the straight path. Her career has spanned museum education, visitor services, exhibit planning, historical research, educational program consultant, and community partner liaison. Whether teaching food preservation classes or designing and running the nation’s first functioning historical brewery or running a brewpub co-op, her passion has always been centered on food—its power to unite and act as a storyteller for communities.

 

Her education is a patchwork of cultural anthropology, food preservation, heritage interpretation, and museum administration. This background has built a foundation of various perspectives from which she draws from when designing programs. Over a 20-year period she has worked with audiences of all sizes, ages, and backgrounds yet believes at the end of the day, it is the guest who drives the conversation and the experience.

 

For a full list upcoming webinars, workshops, and online courses, make sure to check out our calendar: https://aaslh.org/calendar/.

 

Feel free to reach out with any questions at [log in to unmask] or (615) 320-3203.

 

Thanks!

Alex

 

Alex Collins (she, her, hers)

Program Coordinator

American Association for State and Local History

615-320-3203 | aaslh.org

 

Join us for the 2019 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, August 28-31.