I'm sitting in my living room, listening with fascination to the first AASLH online conference. The very first session introduced an interesting question that I would like to throw out there: When and why did opening a museum become the default solution for local groups looking to preserve local history?
In an era when museums that already exist are having a hard time staying open, what other ways might exist for a local history organization to preserve local history without opening a museum?
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Very interesting way to pose this. We have talked before about featuring 'online museums' and various other 'non-traditional' 'museums' as a newsmagazine article. I'll follow this topic here, and hopefully we'll get others to comment too!
- Heather
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