Improving Interpretation for 20 Small Humanities-based Museums along Historic Route 66 in Oklahoma

FAIN: TA-296488-24

Oklahoma Museums Association (Oklahoma City, OK 73111-7103)
Brenda Granger (Project Director: June 2023 to present)

Assessment of interpretive needs at twenty small museums located along Route 66.

The Oklahoma Museums Association (OMA) is pleased to describe our initiative that will spark interpretive improvements among eager small museums across Oklahoma. The principal activities of our project combine an onsite assessment and professional development plan for 20 small humanities-based museums along Historic Route 66. Importantly, OMA will benchmark the museums standing of humanities interpretation and storytelling. OMA's contract interpretive/museum specialist will visit each museum to learn how they can strengthen and broaden their interpretive narratives, improve interpretive excellence, engage their communities, and expand their public audiences. The report generated from the site visits will strengthen OMA as it designs and implements its future professional development training, specifically in response to the information gained from the museums. This project will strengthen humanities in both the 20 museums and OMA.