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Ted Maust

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reader, writer, public historian, provocateur

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Ted Maust
@tmaust Apr 25, 2018, 3:40 PM UTC

What would you fund?

As we end the semester, @kenfinkel has posed us a biiiiiiig question. This is in addition to the lingering question of where exactly we want our grant to go, but might offer us a way to think about t…

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Ted Maust
@tmaust Apr 17, 2018, 1:35 AM UTC

Budgeting for Conservation of Collections : The Heritage Health Index (2005)

This week our class (see this post for more context!) read the 2005 report, A PUBLIC TRUST AT RISK: The Heritage Health Index Report on the State of America’s Collections (hereafter "HHI"). The repor…

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Ted Maust
@tmaust Apr 11, 2018, 4:34 PM UTC

Fair Wages, or Why Steemit Isn't Right for Cultural Institutions...Yet.

In my last post I observed that ethics codes for museum environments don't chart a clear path for cultural institutions to keep themselves above the fray of a market economy. https://media.giphy.com/…

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Ted Maust
@tmaust Apr 10, 2018, 6:30 PM UTC

Adventures in Ethics

In our ongoing engagement with what non-profit organizations are and what they could be, our class has arrived at the concept of public trust, especially as juxtaposed with the market economy. @jfeag…

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Ted Maust
@tmaust Apr 4, 2018, 3:49 PM UTC

Come for the Happy Hour, Stay for the History! - 3 Suggestions for Historic House Museums

I've been away from Steemit for a little while, focusing on cranking out the last bit of my M.A. thesis, but I'm back! In the meantime, we were asked to think about how cultural institutions pivot, a…

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Ted Maust
@tmaust Mar 13, 2018, 7:39 PM UTC

Lessons from Crisis at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

After a brief hiatus (Spring Break), we @phillyhistory students are back Steeming ahead. This week, we are discussing the funding ideas we proposed (Part 1 and Part 2) and blogging about the late '90…

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Ted Maust
@tmaust Feb 28, 2018, 4:00 PM UTC

The Row Home Museum: Letter of Intent

Yesterday, I wrote about the gaps I see in Philadelphia's history system. Today I give you, the funders, a mock Letter of Intent for a project that could meet some of those needs. It is a version of…

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Ted Maust
@tmaust Feb 27, 2018, 10:26 PM UTC

Gaps in the Philadelphia history system

This week our class is describing needs we see in Philadelphia and proposing methods for the cultural sector to meet them. My classmates have already written eloquently about a variety of needs, from…

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Ted Maust
@tmaust Feb 21, 2018, 4:01 PM UTC

The Many Monuments of Fairmount Park

In the last few years, Americans have had a lot of conversations about monuments. I've heard people on buses and in restaurants trying to tease apart the legacies of statues--intended to last forever…

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Ted Maust
@tmaust Feb 21, 2018, 4:51 AM UTC

Lessons from Historical Conglomerates

This week, @kenfinkel posed this question to the @phillyhistory group: "When it comes to interpreting, preserving, presenting the past, what are the pros and cons of big, mid-sized, and small institu…

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