{"id":30,"date":"2007-07-11T08:40:20","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T14:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/2007\/07\/11\/civil-rights-institute-announces-smithsonian-affiliation\/"},"modified":"2007-07-11T08:40:20","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T14:40:20","slug":"civil-rights-institute-announces-smithsonian-affiliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/2007\/07\/11\/civil-rights-institute-announces-smithsonian-affiliation\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Rights Institute announces Smithsonian affiliation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcri.org\" target=\"_blank\">Birmingham Civil Rights Institute<\/a> (BCRI) has been named an affiliate to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.si.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Smithsonian Institution<\/a>. The BCRI learned of the acceptance in May; they will be receiving a certificate recognizing the association next week during a reception at the Institute.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/affiliations.si.edu\/Mainpage.Asp\" target=\"_blank\">Smithsonian&#8217;s Affiliations Program<\/a> allows participating institutions to borrow artifacts from the Institution&rsquo;s collection It also allows them to take advantage of the Smithsonian&rsquo;s educational resources and expertise in the areas of conservation, collections care and exhibition development.&nbsp;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The official kickoff of their partnership will not be until September, when BCRI will take part in <strong>Museum Day 2007<\/strong>. This nationwide event, to be held on September 29, provides free admission to <em><span>Smithsonian<\/span><\/em> <em>Magazine<\/em> readers and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/smithsonian.com\/\">Smithsonian.com<\/a> visitors to participating museums and cultural institutions across the country. BCRI is also, incidentally, one of several local cultural attractions taking part in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/activeculture.info\/files\/Member_Day-07.pdf\">Member Day<\/a> this coming Saturday throughout metro Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement now gives Alabama three affiliates to our nation&#8217;s museum (the others are the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ussrc.com\/museum\/\">U.S. Space and Rocket Center<\/a> in Huntsville and the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.annistonmuseum.org\/\">Anniston Museum of Natural History<\/a>. The entire Smithsonian affiliate network includes 153 museums, cultural and educational organizations in 39 states, the District of Columbia, Panama and Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/2007\/07\/11\/civil-rights-institute-announces-smithsonian-affiliation\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" src=\"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-content\/plugins\/thumbnail-for-excerpts\/tfe_no_thumb.png\" class=\"alignleft wp-post-image tfe\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><p>The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) has been named an affiliate to the Smithsonian Institution. The BCRI learned of the acceptance in May; they will be receiving a certificate recognizing the association next week during a reception at the Institute. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/2007\/07\/11\/civil-rights-institute-announces-smithsonian-affiliation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,10,15,21,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-alabama","category-birmingham","category-culture","category-museums"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4PdO-u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}