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Ask a Curator
WVAM Board Member and Treasurer Jim Mitchell is the Curator of the State Museum. He welcomes your questions about any object or artifact. He can also help you to identify an appropriate museum if you are considering a donation of an item. Contact him at
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Click here to view a wide range of previously published Curator's Corner articles
Helpful Links
Museum Associations
American Association of Museums http://www.aam-us.org/aboutmuseums/
Southeastern Museums Conference http://www.semcdirect.net/
Association of Midwest Museums http://www.midwestmuseums.org/
Small Museum Association http://www.smallmuseum.org/
Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums http://www.alhfam.org/
Midwest Open Air Museums http://www.momcc.org/
Support for West Virginia Museums
West Virginia Division of Culture and History http://www.wvculture.org/index.aspx
West Virginia Humanities Council http://www.wvhumanities.org/
West Virginia History Online http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/wvconline/digitalcollections.html
Frank & Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center http://www.fairmontstate.edu/wvfolklife/default.asp
Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation http://www.benedum.org/
National Endowment for the Arts http://www.arts.gov
National Endowment for the Humanities http://www.neh.gov
National Science Foundation http://www.nsf.gov
Conservation Assessment Program http://www.heritagepreservation.org/CAP/index.html
Institute of Museum and Library Services http://www.imls.gov/
Foundation Center http://www.foundationcenter.org/
Administration
Museum Trustee Association http://www.mta-hq.org/
AAM Standards and Best Practices for Museums http://www.aam-us.org/aboutmuseums/standards/
Museum Ethics http://www.museumethics.org/content/about
Education
WV School Directory http://wvde.state.wv.us/ed_directory/
WV CSOs http://wveis.k12.wv.us/Teach21/public/cso/cso.cfmLesson
Plans Using the WV Encyclopedia http://www.wvhumanities.org/WVEncycLessonPlans.pdf
Teaching History Through the Arts http://www.historythrougharts.org
CCC Educational Materials http://wva-ccc-legacy.org/educational_opportunities.html
Homeschooling http://www.familylearning.org
Frontier Forts in the American Revolution http://www.teachersfirst.com/lessons/forts/
WV State Museum Educational resources http://wvculture.org/museum/education/EDUindex.html
NPS Teaching With Museum Collections http://www.nps.gov/history/museum/tmc/index.htm]
Life of the Early Pioneers by Dr. Richard S. Hartley http://www.museumsofwv.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=37&Itemid=5
Collections Care
Northern States Conservation Center http://www.collectioncare.org/cci/cci.html
AMNH Collections Management Tools http://collections.paleo.amnh.org/9/risk-management-and-disaster-planning
Conservation Assessment Program http://www.heritagepreservation.org/CAP/index.html
Disaster-Planning Tool for Cultural Institutions http://www.dplan.org/
Preservation
The Preservation Alliance of West Virginia http://www.pawv.org/
National Trust for Historic Preservation http://www.preservationnation.org/
General
Explore 33,000 museums worldwide http://www.museumnetwork.com/
Interactive directory of museums' collections http://www.musee-online.org/
National Park Service Museum Management Program http://www.nps.gov/history/museum/
Employment
The Museum Employment Resource Center http://www.museum-employment.com/
AVISO http://www.aam-us.org/aviso/index.cfm
Living History Jobs http://www.alhfam.org/?cat_id=216&nav_tree=216
Museum Studies
Pierpont Community & Technical College http://www.fairmontstate.edu/academics/ctc_folklifestudies/museumstudies.asp
WVU Public History and CRM http://history.wvu.edu/graduate_programs/public_history_crm
Selected WVAM 2010 Conference Presentations
Link to the WVAM
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