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Conversations on the Commons: Six Months and Counting
November 13, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Six Months and Counting of COVID: What are you doing?
November 13, 2020, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
A conversation with Nina Zannieri, Executive Director of the Paul Revere Memorial Association, and Katie MacDonald, Executive Director of Old Colony History Museum
Six months into the COVID pandemic, we’re settling into new routines. Many organizations are implementing new versions of what it means to interpret and teach history as a public history organization. Where are you now? How do you see the coming year, the future? What technologies are you adopting? How are you adapting them to provide quality historical experiences, create AHA!-moments, gain participation, and supplant the “hands-on” experiences that are the strong suit of public history? Are you mixing and matching in-person and virtual experiences? What is going well? What is not? Join us for a conversation about the value and challenges of our transitions, sharing our successes and also our failures so that we may, as a field, continue to bring indispensable history education to the public.
Registration is free. REGISTER HERE.
This Conversation will be livestreamed. We will do our best to monitor your questions and comments during the livestream. A recording will be publicly available in the Conversations on the Commons Archive.
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- Katie has been the Executive Director of the Old Colony History Museum in Taunton, Massachusetts since 2013. In this role, she leads a team of five in all aspects of the museum’s mission. Under her leadership, the museum has rebranded, created an education department, renovated public gallery spaces, and enhanced its standing in the local community. Katie holds an undergraduate degree in history from UMass Amherst and an M.A. in History and Museum Studies from Tufts University.
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- Executive Director of the Paul Revere Memorial Association in Boston, MA since 1986. Previously, she was Curator at the Rhode Island Historical Society. Vice Chair of the AAM from 2002-2003 and on the board from 1999 – 2003. President of the NEMA from 1998 – 2002 after many years of service on the Board. AASLH Council from 2004-2008. She sits on the board of the Freedom Trail Foundation and is also involved with several North End community groups. Ms. Zannieri is on the Advisory Committee for the Museum Studies Program at Harvard and the Public History Program at Suffolk. Recent Publications: an entry on house museums in Inclusive Historians Handbook and a chapter in Reimagining Historic House Museums: New Approaches and Proven Solutions. 2015 New England Museum Association Lifetime Achievement Award 2019 Finalist, Commonwealth Award. BA in history from Boston College MA in Anthropology/Museum Studies from Brown University.
Questions? Be in touch with Caroline Littlewood: commons@masshistoryalliance.org
Conversations on the Commons
Where people from Massachusetts history organizations get to vent, empathize, laugh, complain, think, collaborate, brainstorm, plan, and in general be up to no good.