April 25, 2016
Thirty-Three Years Later. . . On this day in 1983, the Soviet Union released a letter that then-General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party Yuri Andropov had written to Samantha Smith, an American fifth-grader. Widely suspected to be an attempt to demonstrate the 'softer side' of the Soviet Union and negate...
April 18, 2016
Today's blog post will be a little different; there will be a bit of breaking down of the "Fourth Wall," if you will. Our Staff Christmas picture. Don't we look cold?! (I'm the rebel on the right with two hair colors.) Hi! My name is Jordan Page and I...
March 28, 2016
Diana Stanley is a Museum employee who studied abroad in Europe. She occasionally updates the blog with knowledge she gained while she traveled and explored. The city of Bremen in Germany is a whimsical, good-humored city of the North. While it looks old, much of it is new--reconstructed after...
March 21, 2016
Tim Howard, Curator of Exhibits and Research, is currently conducting research in Prague and Budapest. He will be updating the blog as a Field Reporter while he travels and explores. Well, it has truly been a trip through time. In Prague, I was transported to another place and time by the...
March 21, 2016
Steven King, Curator of Collections Guests have asked before about controversial aspects of the Museum. We asked our Curator of Collections, Steven King, what he thinks would be most controversial about the artifacts in the Museum. Some of the more controversial things we have in the Museum...
March 19, 2016
Tim Howard, Curator of Exhibits and Research, is currently conducting research in Prague and Budapest. He will be updating the blog as a Field Reporter while he travels and explores. Pilsner Urquell Brewery My last day in the Czech Republic took me to Plzen (Pilsen) where I toured the Pilsner Urquell...
March 15, 2016
Tim Howard, Curator of Exhibits and Research, is currently conducting research in Prague and Budapest. He will be updating the blog as a Field Reporter while he travels and explores. The Old Town Hall Square Well, I finally found some time to sit down at the hotel and write a...
March 12, 2016
Prague and Budapest - the capitals of two countries located in the borderlands of what have been traditionally labeled Eastern and Western Empires. Their kaleidoscopic histories encompass Roman provinces, Hun invasions, the Carolingian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, and more. Hello! This is Tim, I am the...
February 29, 2016
Crystal Neihoff is the Development Director for the Museum. Today's guest post comes from her and is about March being Women's History Month. When I was asked to write the blog post for this week, I genuinely had to ask my marketing coordinator, “What do you want me to...
February 22, 2016
Have you ever wondered whether a museum is doing a good job? Museums ask these same questions. What can we do better? One purpose of the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) is to define what makes a museum a professional institution. The AAM has compiled a list of what they consider to...