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.