For 48 years, the Seminar for Historical Administration has provided an intensive residential professional development experience for history professionals. SHA is specifically targeted to full-time, paid staff of history museums, historic sites, preservation or other history/museum organizations with three to ten years' experience and who are now in a position of administrative responsibility or are preparing for such a position.
SHA is the longest-running professional development seminar in the country and the only one sponsored by six major history organizations American Association for State and Local History, American Association of Museums, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the Indiana Historical Society, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
SHA employs case studies, workshops, forums, and field trips to present and engage the best practices and ideas of history organization leadership and management.
Topics include:
- Trustee relations
- Interpretation
- Financial management
- Museum & community
- Marketing Trends in history & society
- Historic preservation
- Ethics
- Exhibitions
- Fundraising
- Managing Change
- Human resources
SHA tuition is $1,200.00: Lodging with some meals included is $1,225.00. Brochures will be available at the AASLH office and online after March 15, 2007.
Sponsored by AASLH, AAM, Colonial Williamsburg, Indiana Historical Society, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.