Making the Leap: The Future of Rural Historical Societies and Museums

FAIN: ZH-258489-18

Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS 66506-0100)
Bonnie Lynn-Sherow (Project Director: May 2017 to May 2024)

A training and professionalization program for staff and volunteers in small historical societies and museums across rural Kansas.

The Chapman Center for Rural Studies at Kansas State University, a digital undergraduate research laboratory in history, will build on their decade of experience with small community museums to provide a roadmap for growth and change into the foreseeable future.  With funding from a Humanities Access Grant, the Chapman Center will train four beginning graduate students in facilitating, writing and initial implementation of short and long term local museum and historical society planning documents to mount effective exhibits, collections and programming for families, schools and community members.