Last fall, Backstory launched its partnership with Landmark Park Interpretive Center in Dothan. Backstory will work with Kelton Design to...

This spring, Alabama Justice: The Cases and Faces That Changed A Nation will end its two-year statewide tour to find its home in the...

The Vulcans Community Awards is the most prestigious recognition of civic pride, leadership, and progress in the seven-county Birmingham...

How will museums and historic sites continue to offer field trips to students? It’s a question leaders in Alabama’s cultural sector are...

The National Association of Certified Analysts and Valuators is offering a free webinar. Financial Triage for COVID-19. This webinar...

I'm happy to talk about how clients are finding funding and redirecting staff to low-cost interpretive updates and installations with...

Client-to-Consultant Bridge (C2CB) is providing pro bono consulting and advisory services to small businesses and arts and culture...

Our friends at the Dance Foundation in Homewood, Alabama have assembled several resources specifically for arts and culture nonprofits as...

Formed in 1820 under harsh economic conditions, Alabama’s first Supreme Court would be unrecognizable to us today. To help today’s...

No, digitized images of masterpieces aren't quite the same as the real things. But in the age of self-quarantine, don't let the perfect...

You’re neither living inside a media bubble nor indifferent to the plight of your neighbor. You know that there’s a pretty scary pandemic...

On March 11, the American Bar Association announced that Alabama Justice: The Cases and Faces That Changed a Nation is a finalist for a...

Can the federal government forbid businesses from refusing to serve customers on the basis of race? In 1883, the Supreme Court ruled that...

Dr. Bob Beatty is a museum consultant from Franklin, TN and on the Johns Hopkins museum studies faculty. In this article, Dr. Beatty runs...

The annual state museum conference is a tough sell that just gets tougher. On the face of it, getting away for three days to hear from...

Site interpretation isn’t just about what we take in through our eyeballs. Audio storytelling is a powerful interpretive tool —...

The script is in the can. The experts have fact-checked it, and your team of grammarians have declared the copy squeaky clean. Now you’re...

The story’s the thing. That’s the Backstory mantra. We recite it every time we produce a museum exhibit. And it’s central to our audio...

Thanks to GPS-triggered mobile apps, the future of audio interpretation is here. That’s not hyperbole. Because it is so intuitively...

2019 was quite a year for Backstory. The traveling exhibit Alabama Justice is one reason why. Here’s a link to an in-depth story, posted...