Museum

The Way We Worked

Lots of changes are afoot here at APH. We are knee deep in construction in the building as part of...

Our next-door neighbor the Kentucky School for the Blind (KSB) has a long and rich history, and as such has...

“The blind veterans here in the Helen Keller class are able, thru talking books, to obliterate the tedious hospital hours...

Photo caption: Left to right, unknown man, Ted Hull, Stevie Wonder, and Hamilton Bohannon in Trafalgar Square, London on concert...

Where would we be without the internet and email? “Electronic mail” has become such an entrenched form of communication in...

In 2020, the Kentucky School for the Blind [KSB] Alumni Association signed an agreement that gave the care of the...

In 1904, the Ladies Home Journal published a piece by Helen Keller titled, “As the Blind See the Yuletide.” For...

The holiday season is decidedly upon us, and with workplace parties on the calendar I was curious what holiday-related items...

Raymond Randles in his studio office in 1993. The time between Thanksgiving and Christmas here in our museum is...

Even a simple inquiry about one item in an archive can have a surprising number of highs, lows, twists, and...

Planning museum events has been tricky the last few years, what with the pandemic, of course, and then APH’s plans...

Everything old is new again. Or so the adage goes. But there is an underlying truth to it, even if...

They say the best advice to young writers is to write about what you know. So rather than come up...

Have you ever done research in an archive? Maybe for a school project, or just researching a topic of personal...

As students return to school and the summer winds down, here in the museum we are wrapping up another successful...