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  New adventures, shared passions

  January 17, 2020 - Grace Williams

  Our Volunteers Manager Sharon Blanchard talks about the benefits of being a volunteer and why the American Museum & Gardens […]

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  We’re featured in Gardens Illustrated!

  December 20, 2019 - Grace Williams

  QUICK! Grab a copy of December 2019’s issue of Gardens Illustrated. Oehme van Sweden, the designers of the New American […]

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  Celebrating 50 years since the mission of Apollo 11

  July 17, 2019 - Grace Williams, Michael Nicholas & Vicky Nelson

  [19th century – taken from Emerin Semple scrapbook] We’re celebrating the first lunar landing this year at the American Museum […]

  
  

  Tagged: 19th century, apollo11, essay, michael nicholas, nasa, nasa patch, Navajo, research, silhouette

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  New name, new gardens, new discoveries

  September 12, 2018 - Nas Alvi

  With the launch of the transformed Mount Vernon and new New American Garden, we’ve taken the decision to change our […]

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  Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; oh and a loud bang and hot dog too

  June 1, 2018 - Nas Alvi

  The 4th of July is one of those dates to remember; it seems to stick in the memory even if […]

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  The importance of letter writing

  July 5, 2017 - Isobel Zarb

  On a recent trip to Anne Frank’s house in Amsterdam I was reminded of the importance of letter writing and […]

  
  

  Tagged: American, archives, behind-the-scenes, curatorial, Dallas Pratt, volunteering

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  Beware – Monsters!

  June 5, 2017 - David Webb

  Biased reporting is much in our minds at the moment, where there is often the suspicion that wild invention is being […]

  
  

  Tagged: collections, maps

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  Conestoga Wagon : Fred Giles’ Prize Model

  April 26, 2017 - Fred Giles

  Fred Giles visited the American Museum in September 1975 and saw our Conestoga wagon. It sparked an idea, and many years later his […]

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  You never know where life will take you!

  April 18, 2017 - Sharon Blanchard

  Here at the American Museum our volunteers come from many different towns around Bath but most travel just a few […]

  
  

  Tagged: affection, enthusiasm, knowledge-sharing, volunteering

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  ‘The War to End all Wars’, President Woodrow Wilson, 1917

  April 6, 2017 - Cathryn Spence

  One hundred years ago today America declared war on Germany, and on the Austro-Hungarian Empire the following day. Staff members […]

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