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		<title>Capturing the Cosmos in Huntsville</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 19:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Special thanks to our guest blogger, Chris Myers, U.S. Space and Rocket Center®, Huntsville, AL for this post Bringing the Cosmos to Space Camp®! At the U.S. Space and Rocket Center® and Space Camp, we are constantly looking for fun and innovative ways to teach our museum guests and trainees about space history and the science and math [...]]]></description>
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		<title>take me out to the ballgame</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 17:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Brundage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summer is upon us, which means the baseball season is literally in full swing.  Nothing says America more than a sunny afternoon at the ballpark with a hot dog and ball cap, cheering on your favorite team. Now baseball fans can share their passion outside the ballpark too, with a new initiative launched by the National Museum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>affiliates in the news, spring 2013 edition</title>
		<link>http://www.blog-affiliations.org/?p=9092</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Brundage</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mashantucket Pequot Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mennello Museum of American Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national atomic testing museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Civil War Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[north carolina museum of history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[southern museum of civil war and locomotive history]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Affiliates are making news this month! National Atomic Testing Museum (Las Vegas, Nevada) Las Vegas museum tells of city’s history with nuclear testing &#160; North Carolina Museum of History (Raleigh, North Carolina) Exhibition featuring 19th-century African American master cabinetmaker Thomas Day opens at Renwick Gallery April 12 &#160; Mennello Museum of American Art (Orlando, Florida) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>what&#8217;s new at SITES?</title>
		<link>http://www.blog-affiliations.org/?p=9002</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bollywood]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From amazing animals to the immigration experience in America, the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) exhibitions reflect the depth and breadth of the Smithsonian’s research and collections.  Host a SITES exhibition and find out how it can expand your community of visitors and supporters, lead to creative programming opportunities and generate greater press coverage.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>coming up in affiliateland in may 2013</title>
		<link>http://www.blog-affiliations.org/?p=9069</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caroline Mah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May is a busy time in Affiliateland!  CALIFORNIA The Japanese American National Museum will open SITES’ American Heroes: Japanese American WWII Nisei Soldiers and the Congressional Gold Medal, 5.4. The museum will also host the National Portrait Gallery’s traveling exhibition Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits in Los Angeles, 5.11. WYOMING 64 artifacts from the National Museum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>kudos affiliates! for may 2013</title>
		<link>http://www.blog-affiliations.org/?p=9054</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Glavas</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[enewsletter feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[You Heard It Here First]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arizona state museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Building Initiative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history miami]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michigan State University Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national canal museum]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ohio historical society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perot Museum of Nature and Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spring has sprung, and 2013 continues to be a successful one for our Affiliates! Funding The Ohio Historical Society (Columbus, Ohio) has received $155,000 from the Ohio General Assembly for repairs on the sternwheeler W.P. Snyder.  The Society also received two awards from The National Endowment for the Humanities: one for $248,600 to continue the digitization [...]]]></description>
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		<title>early learning in museums</title>
		<link>http://www.blog-affiliations.org/?p=9034</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Brundage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conference Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enewsletter feature]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kimberlee Kiehl]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2012, the Institute of Museum and Library Services hosted a series of meetings to inform the development of a groundbreaking report on the role of libraries and museums in early learning.  Among the advisors to those meetings were representatives from the Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center, a model school on the Smithsonian campus that combines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome Abbe Museum! First Museum in Maine to be in Association with the Smithsonian</title>
		<link>http://www.blog-affiliations.org/?p=8958</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog-affiliations.org/?p=8958#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Bugbee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smithsonian Affiliations is pleased to announce a new affiliate relationship with the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine. The Abbe Museum is Maine’s first Smithsonian Affiliate, joining 177 Affiliates in 41 states, Puerto Rico and Panama, currently in association with the Smithsonian. “Becoming a Smithsonian Affiliate will support exciting collaborations between our organizations, while dramatically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capturing the Cosmos in College Park</title>
		<link>http://www.blog-affiliations.org/?p=8922</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caroline Mah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MicroObservatory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Special thanks to our guest blogger, Chelsea Dorman, College Park Aviation Museum, College Park, MD for this post Last fall, College Park Aviation Museum had the opportunity to lead two Capture the Colorful Cosmos classes using assistance from a Smithsonian Youth Access Fund grant. Our museum attracts many younger children for all of its hands-on activities, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>conference highlight: serving children and families on the autism spectrum</title>
		<link>http://www.blog-affiliations.org/?p=8849</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog-affiliations.org/?p=8849#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Brundage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conference Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enewsletter feature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smithsonian Affiliations is pleased to be working with the Smithsonian&#8217;s Accessbility Program to offer a special workshop during the 2013 Smithsonian Affiliations National Conference on the ways that museums can and are serving children on the autism spectrum.  The first part of the workshop will cover the basics of autism spectrum disorders, answering questions such as: - what is autism [...]]]></description>
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