This week I participated in a focus group discussing how to strengthen the Smithsonian’s Museums on Main Street (MOMS) program. The Maryland Humanities Council, the sponsor of the initiative in this state, assembled a panel of stakeholders and subject matter experts to share perspectives on how to strengthen the program. This cultural initiative serves small town museums, primarily through professionally curated traveling exhibits that draw on the expertise and resources of the Smithsonian. Specifically the group of museum
professionals from around the state talked about how participation in the
Museums on Main Street program helped the humanities and nonprofit partners develop enhanced opportunities involving the program. The MOM’s blog, Road Reports, has a piece I wrote when our institution participated in Key Ingredients. Click here to read “Reinvigorating the Past in Elkton, Maryland.”
