Meghan Gelardi Holmes

I started this blog with a post called “The Civic Museum.” Civic engagement – it’s the lifeblood of a new […]

This time of year, the Fairmount neighborhood in Philadelphia is dominated by Eastern State Penitentiary. The prison is always a […]

Future-casting. There’s an activity often met with trepidation by historians. While history might inform the present, it isn’t a tool […]

What does history look like? In school, we learn to conceive of time in a linear fashion, using dates as […]

Civic engagement comes in different shapes and sizes. Last month, I wrote about how one museum uses its history and […]

This week, Nina Simon at Museum 2.0 wrote about institutions with a public service perspective – museums that have transformed […]

As someone who works in the humanities, I occasionally find myself in the position of defending my line of work. […]

Every year for as long as I can remember, my family took a trip to the Bronx Zoo in the […]

There are exhibits, and then there are exhibits. You know the good ones right away – they make you think, […]

This season marks the fifth year of an urban farming experiment at Wyck Historic House and Gardens. The 18th-century homestead, […]