The “BHM Blog” category contains all Posts pertaining to Brenham Heritage Museum Blog. These Posts are excluded from “All Exhibits-Current” ,”All Exhibits-Past”, “All Exhibits-Permanent”, “All Exhibits-Munz Gallery” and “All Exhibits-Brenham Bus Depot Gallery” categories.
In the museum industry, we revolve around our collections. Most museums do. I think all museums should. The other stuff – events, tours, exhibitions, etc – is important too, but the collection is where the rubber meets the road. It is a universal belief that museums have “old stuff”, right? The Mysterious Old Stuff Museums […]
I can’t begin to tell you how many photographs are in the typical museum collection. Any museum, if it is anything like ours, has buckets of images from any number of time periods. This post is about how hard it is to identify old images. To say it is really hard, perhaps, is an understatement. […]
It’s a bigger question than you realize. Still, we are a species that enjoys classifying things; putting things into cubbyholes. So let’s live up to our socio-biological programming, shall we? Let’s define “MUSEUM”. What is this thing? According to the International Council of Museums (ICOM), a museum is… A mouthful. According to , a museum […]
As we were talking about photographs in a previous post, I thought I’d bring up another issue. Contemporary Collecting Contemporary Collecting is defined by the BHM as “the process through which museums identify and acquire contemporary tangible and intangible culture in order to pre-emptively fill anticipated gaps in museum collections.” The basic idea is “get […]
After months of planning and working with a dedicated group of creative individuals, our online site renovations are complete!
