History Museum Training Services
Need history interpretation training?
Training of staff, employees, or volunteers is an important component of planning, implementing, or advancing successful history interpretations, presentations, or programs that enriches the visitors’ experience. Harvey Bakari has 23 years of history of museum management experience training employees (historic interpreters) volunteers, interns, and educators (Teachers Institute) who were diverse by age, race, and ethnicity.
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Does your staff need training?
Do the volunteers, employees, educators, or managers in your organization need training or motivation to interpret African American history to diverse audiences? Training provides staff with the knowledge or resources to be successful. BHS offers two primarily two types of training or workshops, African American historical content and interpretive skills.
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African American History Training
Early African American history and culture content training class or workshop that supports increasing and broadening the staffs’ knowledge of specific subjects. (See the presentations page for African American history themes.)
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Difficult History Training
African American history and culture interpretative skills training class or workshop provides how-to guidance for effectively interpreting celebratory, difficult, or controversial history, such as race and slavery, to diverse audiences. BHS offers strategies to address employees and volunteers’ fears or apprehensions of controversial subjects. BHS can also address the unique challenges of presentism (viewing the past through present/modern lens) when interpreting the legacies of African American history and culture.
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Interpretation & Presentation Training
BHS can provide a standard or customized training to support your specific museum or organizational needs to include historic house museums, living history sites, farm sites, walking history tours, auditoriums, stage, and military reenactments.
Why choose BHS Training Services?
Training Experience.
Training of staff, employees, or volunteers is an important component of planning, implementing, or advancing successful history interpretations, presentations, or programs that enriches the visitors’ experience. Harvey Bakari has 23 years of history of museum management experience at the nation’s largest living history museum, training employees (historic interpreters) volunteers, interns, and educators (Teachers Institute) who were diverse by age, race, and ethnicity.
Engagement & interactive.
Like BHS presentations, history museum training classes or workshops uses multimedia presentations of African American history and culture. BHS training may also include interactive historical interpretations such as third and first person, narratives, roleplaying, visual illustrations, and demonstrations. To help employees or volunteers with demonstrating elements African American history and cultures, training classes may include storytelling, sacred and secular music, songs, dance, and percussion instrument instructions. Interactive training props may include clothing, agriculture, crafts, labor, or military life.