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To help envision the "Museum of Tomorrow" the AAM Center for the Future of Museums is presenting a workshop that will cover the basics of future studies to include scanning, forecasting and scenario development.
Visit the AAM Bookstore, created to serve the special needs of the museum community. From titles that entertain to those that serve your professional and organizational requirements, you'll discover carefully chosen books, manuals and reference guides that no office should be without. Check the final program for author signing events and new title announcements.
This session will examine museum relationships with primary government partners and alternate approaches for effective museum governance within various scenarios.
Learn what past accreditation participants thought was most beneficial and get tips on how best to prepare for your application.
Using Lois H. Silvermans recent book, "The Social Work of Museums", as a framework, this panel will examine how and why social work concepts help shape universal museum practice for the future. We will explore and advance four action areas for museums: serving personal relationships; taking a needs-based approach; learning from people at risk; and fostering social justice.
Anyone who works at an art museum will be fascinated to learn which critical issues the board and staff at the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) are tackling, including public support, fiscal and environmental sustainability, upholding standards of professional practice and remaining relevant to audiences of the future.
In an effort to remove the stigma of being a "non-traditional” museum, three very diverse institutions will present their unusual approach to objects, learning and exhibiting.
Gain insight from representatives of the Earth Day Network on how to secure federal, state and local funding to help finance environmental sustainability improvements and tips on implementing cost effective green practices.
Panelists share findings from studies that captured the views of people with disabilities or measured impacts of inclusive offerings at three kinds of museums: art, natural history and zoo.
This session will explore audio description (AD), a recorded narrative that broadens the museum experience for all people and particularly for patrons who cannot see or have low vision.
This nuts-and-bolts session will demonstrate "how to” techniques and best practices for creating and delivering visitor-centered, object-based and interdisciplinary education programs.
This session will explore the current landscape of online and mobile multilingual content offered by museums and forecast the future for multi-language capabilities in museums.
This session will introduce three new resources designed to help museums become more effective with staff training and with family programs.
This session will use live and recorded performances, case studies and discussion to explore ways that museum theater is used to interpret controversial and culturally sensitive issues such as tolerance, constitutional rights, and climate change and environmental sustainability.
This session will provide insights about strategically incorporating social media into your marketing and will showcase three institutions that are showing it is possible to put a value on likes, tweets and blog posts.
Panelists from tne Smithsonian Institution and leading Chinese museums will provide an overview of programming, planning, design and construction management of museum renovation and new construction. Global Views Session!
All representatives of state museum associations and related cultural organizations are invited to share ideas with colleagues at this annual gathering of NASMA. .
This workshop discussion will teach skills on how to ask for a gift, determining who is a genuine prospect and managing the entire process along with discussion on the clear differences between museum fundraising and fundraising for other types of non-profits.
This session offers an overview of the Saint Louis Art Museum's strategic program goals to involve non-traditional audiences and diversify participation.
This curatorially focused panel will analyze the process and merits of interdisciplinary collaboration among curators, artists, designers, educators and their audience in redefining how museums can use culture to build communities.
This panel will look at innovative methods that museum professionals have undertaken to ensure that the museum of tomorrow is well served by a young and dedicated staff.
In a series of lightning-fast updates on burning issues, learn more from experts in the field about federal, state and local government challenges to non-profit tax exempt status (UBTI, property exemptions); employment classification under FSLA and recent actions and enforcement by DOL; more details of what is buried in the 1099 fine print; definition and action on defining a non-profit for legislative purposes; and more!
This session will present leading-edge research critiquing the current roles of museums and science centers in climate change and propose new potential interventions emerging from research undertaken in the U.S. and Australia as part of an international project funded by the Australian Research Council. We will present a comprehensive analysis of the findings, a commentary response by a leading science center CEO and an interactive audience-based discussion.
This session will address how museums can make exhibition experiences accessible to everyone through universal design techniques and skills.
Learn about four museum studies graduate student research projects that identified a shared challenge among museums, archives, and libraries and proposed solutions in areas to include orphan works in collections, technology and policy development, and new structures for collaboration.
Three examples of mergers
Learn how to plan, implement, and effectively evaluate your use of Twitter and Facebook.
The audience leads this session on envisioning the future of membership, including who our members will be, what they might want, and how we'll find them or they'll find us.
In this interactive session, educational leader Ken Kay explores with the audience how museums and other community-based organization can help prepare K-12 students to collect their "21st century portfolios" to demonstrate college and career readiness and how museum and schools can partner to refine the notion of "city as high school." Thought Leader Session!
Experts from major Chinese museums and the Smithsonian Institution share their perspectives on developing and managing large-scale traveling exhibitions as well as installations for local audiences. Global Views Session!
Presenters will share their experience in exhibiting and presenting current events and subject matter that has been controversial, such as the recent financial crisis, 9/11 and its aftermath, and the history of marriage at a time when the definition of the term is under debate.
A team of consultants and practitioners will lead break-out sessions on new approaches to the planning, quiet, public and closing phases of capital campaigns.
This year's conversation will start will challenging the sacred cow of Relevance, and will ask just what museums are supposed to be relevant to--from there we'll move on to take fresh looks at whatever is on your mind.
Emerging and mid-career professoinals-learn from colleagues and mentors in timely discussions about strategizing your career, overcoming workplace challenges, being a leader at any level and communicating persuasively.
This session will help you research a new collections management system or implement the first database for your institution.
Using concrete examples and conversation, the session will examine the present and future of narrative, exploring the role of museums at the intersection of imagination and memory.
We'll examine how you can create a flexible, responsive interactive space that will withstand constant traffic and use on a budget.
Panelists will discuss why they decided to create an app for their institution, what was involved in developing the app, what they learned from the process, the outcome after it was launched (with stats and visitor feedback), and what their next steps will be.
This session will feature projects funded by the NEH's Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections grant program that balance preservation effectiveness, cost and environmental impact.
This session suggests that museums are well poised to become places that catalyze and incubate real cultural innovation, whether works of art, new design products, scientific developments or social innovations.
This session focuses on how and why 12 museums in Balboa Park joined together to create and administer a large-scale visitor experience study.
Join your colleagues to discuss the Rights and Reproduction Information Network's (RARIN) current activities
Recognizing outstanding achievement in museum media, the international AAM Media and Technology Committee announces the 22nd annual MUSE awards competition.
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Join colleagues and members of the Council of Jewish Museums. Learn how CAJM is working to strengthen your work through its annual conference, website networking opportunities, and program initiatives.
Join the Traveling Exhibitions Professional Interest Committee for their annual breakfast and committee meeting.
If you're "in-between jobs," new to the field, or just looking to get a reality check, join this informal and lively conversation sure to give you a fresh perspective on the employment climate in the museum field today.
This workshop, led by members of the International Museum Theater Alliance (IMTAL), is for anyone who would like to learn techniques and tips to help overcome some common pitfalls of public speaking.
Participants will learn from experts on how to develop and strengthen your museum's membership program, regardless of the size of your museum or membership program budget.
Visit the AAM Bookstore, created to serve the special needs of the museum community. From titles that entertain to those that serve your professional and organizational requirements, you'll discover carefully chosen books, manuals and reference guides that no office should be without. Check the final program for author signing events and new title announcements.
Workshop participants will consider how their institution can address their communities' unique 21st-century learning needs while raising stakeholder awareness about museums' role in that learning landscape.
Speakers from an art museum, historic house and local history museum will share their strategies for prioritizing collections management in small museums.
Join this valuable overview and introduction to museum Standards and Best Practices, which constitute the field's core operational principles.
Gain valuable tips and strategies from experienced colleagues in the field as you work on your own resume--be sure to bring one! (Note: in addition to this group workshop, you may sign up for one-on-one resume review on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon from 2-5 p.m.)
Learn to incorporate simple, active learning techniques into your conference session, MuseumExpo booth or museum program to make it a more active, less passive learning experience for your audience.
Registrars from American museums will share their experiences with and expertise on import and export procedures, peculiarities of U.S. and foreign customs offices, issues with national patrimony, courier situations and much more.
This session will discuss three museum projects that attempted to encourage dialogue about subjects such as racism, citizenship, human health and new technologies.
Experts will discuss the acceptance and integration of the "branded mission,” including hiring/traning, communication products, exhibit selection, education classes and customer service practices.
Representatives from the Queens Museum of Art and Project Row Houses will discuss their "placemaking” approach that helps transform neighborhoods into vital places that highlight local assets, spur rejuvenation and serve common needs.
This session will demonstrate how to balance demands for the preservation and display of collections with the need to provide visitor comfort.
Gain insight on how to build your Twitter and Facebook presence in a meaningful, sustainable way to engage your online audience.
Leaders in print and online arts media will discuss how museums can use the media to advance awareness for their institutions and further their mission, while staying on top of new trends, discovering new outlets and reaching local, regional and national audiences.
This panel considers how museums might incorporate (more) material about the future in exhibits and community interactions.
Engage with three successful directors who came up uncommon paths, providing practical information to apply to your own goals and situation, and changing your thinking about who should lead museums.
A "town hall" style meeting with civic and political leaders from Houston and Washington, DC on how museums position themselves as essential education, cultural, and economic assets.
Join ALGC for a special illustrated presentation from the traveling exhibitions program of the Stonewall Library Museum and Archives. Stonewall Executive Director, Jack Rutland and exhibitions curator John Coppola will discuss their LGBT traveling exhibits
Join us for a networking luncheon with professionals from a diverse array of historic house museums. Come hear about visionary new projects and discover new ways of engaging more diverse audiences and share best practices.
Join the Small Museums Administrators Committee for its annual business meeting and celebration of Small Museums Day. Members and non-members of SMAC are welcome to attend.
Join the Visitors Services Professional Interest Committee as they present the AAM Annual Meeting Fellowship Award. VSPIC encourages members, new members, and AAM attendees who are interested in visitor services to attend.
Meet members and the board of AAMV, museum volunteer management professionals and highly experienced docents and volunteers to trade ideas and learn about the latest trends in museum volunteerism.
Join the International Museum Theatre luncheon and stay for the presentation of the annual IMTY award honoring an individual who strongly supports the use of museum theatre in their institution.
Join your LINPIC friends and colleagues to hear about the latest projects and activities.
The opening reception of Museum Expo officially opens the exhibit hall. Come enjoy complimentary food, beverages and entertainment as you discover the exhibitors latest products and services that will help change the way you work.
Visit more than 300 booths with vendors offering solutions to help you improve your effectiveness and provide you with the tools you need to prepare yourself and your workplace for the future.
In the ongoing aftermath of budget and staffing cuts, learn how tough economic times present a unique opportunity to engage museum trustees in the development and fundraising process.
This comprehensive entry-level course will acquaint participants with vocabulary, concepts and opportunities related to increasing the environmental sustainability of any type of museum, with or without changes to the building.
This session will explore the best practices of integrating and sustaining live programming that creates innovative educational connections to collections and exhibitions.
The session will address active museum systems, unstructured and legacy data, e-manuscript collections, e-mail and digital collection objects.
This session demonstrates that all museums can utilize the topics and methods employed by social conscience museums, which discuss some of the more painful aspects of human history in innovative ways while inspiring community action.
Learn how a research-based, member-focused approach to evaluating your membership program, supported by strategic packaging and marketing, can significantly increase revenue.
This session will help participants develop strategies to best engage undergraduate and graduate students seeking to complement their theoretical training with practical experience.
Following the format of last year's successful session, "Vision and Conquest,” 10 museum professionals will have five minutes each for quick-fire, straight-to-the-point discussion of how to gather the skills required to move from entry-level positions to mid-career.
Panelists will consider how museums should adapt their communications strategies as the Internet transforms media.
Overcoming Barriers to Adopting a Mobile App
At this open air forum, AAM Standing Professional Committees (SPCs) exchange and present information and new ideas for all types of museums and museum professionals. The SPCs represented include: AAM Committee on Audience Research and Evalution; AAM Committee on Museum Professional Training; AAM Committee on Education; AAM Curators Committee; AAM Development and Membership Committee; AAM Committee for Diversity in Museums; AAM Media and Technology Committee; AAM Public Relations and Marketing Committee; AAM Registrars Committee;AAM Small Museum Administrators Committee; and National Association for Museum Exhibition.
If you are currently working abroad, about to take an international assignment, or simply interested in what's going on in museums around the world, join this lively conversation with experienced colleagues.
In this session participants will reference the AAM ebook, "Building a Sustainable Nonprofit Organization," to begin to develop specific strategies for moving beyond simply balancing the operating budget to building a sustainable organization able to meet its mission, strategic goals, and stewardship responsibilities over the long haul, regardless of what happens to the economy.
This is one of three committee meetings held each year in conjunction with major conferences of the American Library Association, Society of American Archivists and AAM.
This speed networking event will jumpstart AAM's 2011 Mentoring Program by bringing together emerging and experienced museum professionals from the US and abroad who are interested in engaging in a mentoring relationship. Prospective mentees and mentors will meet in speed networking intervals of 5 minutes to initiate introductions and exchange contact information.
The Cooperstown Graduate Program invites alumni, friends and perspective students to renew acquaintances and hear the latest news about the new museum studies learning environment facility.
University of the Arts Museum Studies alumni, MAAM members and all other friends of these two organizations are welcome to attend! Come drink, laugh and trade old stories and make new ones while you network with colleagues.
Annual users group meeting
Members and friends of the Oklahoma Museums Association and Museum of the Red River are invited to this networking social hour.
The annual traveling exhibitions roundtable is a great opportunity for institutions seeking traveling exhibitions to learn about new and exciting traveling shows and their availability as well as producers to showcase their productions.
This workshop, led by members of the International Museum Theater Alliance (IMTAL), is for anyone who would like to learn techniques and tips to help overcome some common pitfalls of public speaking.
Visit the AAM Bookstore, created to serve the special needs of the museum community. From titles that entertain to those that serve your professional and organizational requirements, you'll discover carefully chosen books, manuals and reference guides that no office should be without. Check the final program for author signing events and new title announcements.
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This panel looks at lessons learned, addressing the aftermath of the earthquake; international cooperation, equipment and volunteers; planning for a large-scale disaster; and immediate steps to take after a disaster to safeguard collections and enhance future recovery.
Join this practical workshop to better understand the nature of decision making, so you can learn how to identify key stakeholders and ensure consistent communication of decisions across your organization.
Gain valuable tips and strategies from experienced colleagues in the field as you work on your own resume-be sure to bring one! (Note: in addition to this group workshop, you may sign up for one-on-one resume review on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon from 2-5 p.m.)
Gain valuable tips and strategies from experienced colleagues in the field as you work on your own resume-be sure to bring one! (Note: in addition to this group workshop, you may sign up for one-on-one resume review on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon from 2-5 p.m.)
This session will explore the values that families ascribe to their museum experiences and discuss how these family values converge and diverge across contexts including art, history, science, and children's museums
The panel will offer pragmatic suggestions for communicating effectively with decision makers (including funders) at all levels, from school administrators and local politicians to members of Congress.
The 2011 critique will focus on how the Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum balances the issues of the oil spill in the gulf, energy and regional relevance.
Three initiatives present their innovative leverage-model approaches to improve educational programming, outreach efforts, use of technology and the exchange of ideas for their museum constituents.
Session attendees will learn tested procedures to increase their security awareness and steps to take or avoid in confronting emergency situations.
Three media experts will discuss the current state of media, emerging trends and how to be successful in an ever-changing media world.
Three CEO's relatively new to their posts reflect on how they are creating new visions for their museums and the challenges associated with leading organizational change.
Museums in Motion: A Case Study
This session will showcase museums that have used forecasting reports produced by the Center for the Future of Museums to shape their institutions' long-range plans.
This panel-based session will help newcomers and museum professionals working in small to medium-sized museums mount and run a successful, prioritized development program.
Panelists will share their knowledge and expertise on creative ways in which small museums can start their own traveling exhibition program and how to locate others across the country.
Visit more than 300 booths with vendors offering solutions to help you improve your effectiveness and provide you with the tools you need to prepare yourself and your workplace for the future.
This practical workshop will help you learn how you can build better teams, gain trust, engage in productive debate and prioritize team goals over individual interests.
This workshop will offer practical advice and tips on helping you through the interview process-from both sides of the interview table.
Learn from thoughtful, experienced museum consultants in this practical discussion about what works and doesn't work in the world of successful independent museum professionals.
Explore a range of free or inexpensive tools to help you create a website.
Keys To A Successful Museum Store
Join the EdCom board and members as they discuss and share their strategic plan. This year, Lois H. Silverman, renowned writer and educator, will reflect on her writings. Her recent work The Social Work of Museums has inspired the field. Special book signing will follow the presentation.
Join museum development membership professionals from around the country for this annual tradition. Come discuss the latest trends in the field, what's working and what's not, and what's ahead.
Learn about what's happening with the AAM Media and Technology Committee. Hear about what your colleagues are doing and meet other like-minded professionals.
AAM's Museum Association Security Committee Annual Meeting and Luncheon
Bring your lunch and join us for brief, bite-sized (20-minute) presentations and conversations on a range of career and management-related topics. Topics TBD.
In this practical workshop, you'll emerge better able to sharpen your writing skills, write with more confidence and persuasion, unlock writers' block and choose the right approach for different kinds of communications.
Need some friendly criticism to break a creative log jam? Using the creative energy of colleagues, this workshop will cure what ails your exhibits. The exhibit doctor will diagnosis the problem, and prescribe the cure. Submit plans and designs ahead of time for review to Biggs@chicagohistory.org by May 1st.
If your employees have a hard time getting along or your departments engage in "artificial harmony," you'll find useful tips in this hands-on workshop designed to help you and your colleagues more effectively tackle conflict and engage in honest communication.
Learn from your peers and experts in the field as we collectively explore and build a list of the "top 10 skills" needed to succeed in today's (and tomorrow's) museum industry.
This session will explore how various institutions are addressing changing demographics, technology and globalization, creating crucial new needs that require adaptation so that we can effectively serve our varied audiences.
Case studies at three museums show how green technology and sustainable practice are being incorporated into museum design and operations.
Educators and program participants will discuss how a museum can create a program that meets the needs of the diverse homeschool audience without losing focus on institutional values, mission and collection.
Understand how to distribute your media in ArtBabble, iTunes, Flickr, and YouTube.
Museum Store Layout and Design Features That Increase Sales
Recent experiences in Brazil, Kenya and Turkey show how museums can be community gateways encouraging understanding among peoples while generating economic and social empowerment, often focusing on intangible or other heritage that does not fit into showcases.
This session uses two content-heavy exhibitions-in-planning in art museums to discuss creatively balancing curatorial responsibility and the leisure-learner's interest in visual pleasure.
Pro and con arguments for diorama use across types of museums are presented alongside research and evaluation findings.
This panel will examine some examples in which institutions have been affected and even improved by how they create digital content.
Addressing the changing landscape of philanthropy due to economic times, the session will focus on trend analysis from Philanthropy USA and help the audience reflect on what trends mean for major gift strategies, how the trends are impacting the development of a compelling case, and how we must adapt to new and emerging paradigms.
LACMA, SFMOMA and an audience research specialist will present initial front-end research along with methodology and lessons learned for two online scholarly catalogues in production as part of the Getty Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative.
Reflecting on our "cultural commons" of art and ideas, Lewis Hyde will offer historical perspective on the notion of intellectual property, and insight into how museums might balance issues of access and ownership to best serve the public interest.
Sign up for a brief 20-minute one-on-one resume review session with an experienced colleague in the field. First-come, first served by sign-up onsite only.
These two sessions address the implications, issues and benefits of adopting and implementing a public value approach for museum management and program development.
Join IMLS program officers for an overview of the institute's special initiatives and funding opportunities for a wide variety of museum activities.
This session discusses the unpopular theme of insider (or insider-related) theft, highlights recent losses from well-known and lesser-known victims, and offers practical, cost-efficient mitigation steps.
In 75 minutes, you will hear at least 75 innovative ideas in development, membership and marketing that can be implemented in any museum.
If you're a new manager, this workshop will help you explore your leadership traits, provide feedback to staff and make the neccessary shift in values and time management that will make you more effective in your role.
Gain practical advice on how to best work across your museum departments with respect to sharing data and how to gain buy-in from the top down and the bottom up.
Get an intimate glimpse of the day-to-day challenges and triumphs of museum work in these small group, face-to-face discussions with practitioners in the field.
Learn to determine when you need a permit, for what species and what information you need to collect before you apply, as well as how to apply and to which government agency.
Learn how to use Constant Contact and Magnet Mail as email tools to communicate with your public.
This panel features museum professionals who received AAM's MCCA grant to foster collaborations with institutions abroad.
This session encourages professionals to consider examples of specific exhibits and programs that have broached difficult or emotional topics such as race and racism, slavery and assassination with audiences of different ages.
Discover a variety of approaches to taming and socializing social media through the experiences of five institutions and their efforts to grow and deepen relationships with their audiences.
This panel will explore how technology teams can better incorporate expertise from other key museum departments to make more meaningful digital experiences that support a museum's objectives and remain compelling and useful to the general public.
Learn how to apply valuable lessons from learning theorists to the exhibition design process, creating stronger, more meaningful experiences for your guests.
Join fellow GW alumni for a reception for alumni, faculty and students.
Learn some basic tips on how to successfully craft an effective AAM session proposal that will translate into a great annual meeting session.
Visit the AAM Bookstore, created to serve the special needs of the museum community. From titles that entertain to those that serve your professional and organizational requirements, you'll discover carefully chosen books, manuals and reference guides that no office should be without. Check the final program for author signing events and new title announcements.
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Science writer and best-selling author, Rebecca Skloot recounts the extraordinary journey of Henrietta Lacks whose human cells became one of the most important tools in medical discoveries from the polio vaccine to gene mapping and its implications for bioethics and human biological research. Thought Leader Session!
This session highlights partnerships that helped create diverse entry points for new audiences and provide enriching extension programs at the Holocaust Museum Houston, an institution that deals with "difficult knowledge.”
Come see how NASA, the Smithsonian and two other leading museums are helping visitors get involved in real scientific research, work with collections, and collaborate with curators and scientists.
This session will help middle managers by exploring strategies, ideas and skill sets one can acquire and employ in managing up, down and across the organization.
In this hands-on workshop, we'll explore some of the ways you can design and deliver a powerful, persuasive and playful presentation using basic communciation tools and your own innate skills.
The development of new museums in the Middle East provides an example of how successful international partnerships and collaborations can serve audiences here and abroad.
Have your current collections conundrums reviewed and addressed by a roomful of professionals led by a distinguished panel of experts.
Innovative museum directors, programmers and consultants will discuss ways to promote experimentation and a culture of risk-taking at your institution, exploring strategies that apply to the board room, educators and exhibit designers, and front-line visitor services and security staff.
Through the lens of developing two exhibitions on health and the human body, this session chronicles exhibit-specific uses of visitor research and evaluation, from prototyping to focus groups with community members.
Experience the international Museum of Broken Relationships, currently on display in Houston, which taps the power of audience contribution, universal emotions, local exhibitions, Web activities and international collection. Attendees of this session are strongly encouraged to visit this exhibition at the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, 120 Fine Arts Building, prior to the session.
Leading museum directors will share strategies that bring new visitors through the doors, including social media engagement, e-marketing, innovative programming, theatrical experiences and state-of-the-art technology.
Integrate Google Analytics into your website to effectively track visitors to your website, monitor their behavior and better understand the data you are collecting.
Join us to hear about the American Association for State and Local History's new StEPs program, which helps small and mid-sized history museums assess current policies and practices using the field's first set of Basic, Good and Better performance indicators.
Information presented will be geared toward new, veteran, and future AAM Peer Reviewers and will illustrate the methods for a more successful accreditation and/or MAP site visit
Guests will be treated to a tour of Space Center Houston and the adjacent NASA facility, Johnson Space Center, where astronauts are trained.
Visit more than 300 booths with vendors offering solutions to help you improve your effectiveness and provide you with the tools you need to prepare yourself and your workplace for the future.
Keynoter Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History offers insights on our place in the universe.
This luncheon is a great opportunity for members of ICOM-US, other national committees of ICOM, and other interested delegates, to hear updates on the work of ICOM-US and network with colleagues.
This session is designed to help you engage board members in more meaningful ways by understanding their fiduciary, generative and strategic roles in order to engender enthusiasm for the organization and enjoy their board experience.
Explore the income tax rules and planning strategies that both advisors and internal management must consider when a nonprofit organization engages in commercial activities or invests in certain kinds of assets.
Whether your career is emerging, established, or stagnant, you can make small changes with big impact using three simple powerful techniques that you can learn, practice, and take back with you to enhance your life at work.
This session will address evaluating when a museum needs a digital management system (DAMS), the process of selecting a system and its implementation through case studies, and the experiences of a company developing a DAMS for museums.
This panel will discuss how site-specific electronic art events have engaged new audiences in exciting ways while activating Houston's industrial fringe.
This session will explore a number of crises during the first decade of the 21st century, how America has responded, and how to structure an emergency management plan and assemble an emergency management team.
Panelists will use a rich set of real-world examples to spark an initial discussion and share relevant examples, lessons learned and reflections.
This session will demonstrate how the Barnes Foundation, Walker Art Center, Museum of New Mexico Foundation and Kimbell Art Museum worked to attract new donors, retain long-time donors and increase giving through innovative cultivation and stewardship strategies, personalized service and relationships, and aggressive solicitation strategies.
Museum staff will discuss how the adoption of social media tools throughout many museum departments and openness to community-generated social content succeeded in turning Lois the Corpse Flower
Learn how a variety of museums are integrating new media into their educational programs to empower youth, engage them as content developers and prepare them for their roles in an increasingly global and technologically complex society.
Sign up for a brief 20-minute one-on-one resume review session with an experienced colleague in the field. First-come, first served by sign-up onsite only.
Join colleagues for lively informal discussions on field-wide issues and hot topics that are shaping the profession. Topic TBD
This session will focus on the challenges and benefits that arise when an increasing number of artists choose to work with K-12 students and families in collaboration with museum educators.
This panel will share how different institutions manage high-capacity school audiences in their programming, addressing staff roles, self-guide material and logistics.
The session presents innovative collaborations between libraries and museums that expand how museums are valued.
This panel explores the best practices of developing and pre-purposing content for distribution on various platforms.
A participatory game will provide insight into involving a generation of digital natives, and the panel will describe their efforts to develop technology-based projects with teenagers.
Our panel will discuss the challenges and benefits of allowing the public into our "behind the scenes” world of storage, providing access to researchers, museum studies students and high-level donors.
The Certified Institutional Protection Manager program provides the latest information for professionals in a management or administrative role, responsible for cultural property, protection, safety, and security. Management level courses are presented to include emergency preparedness, physical security, fire protection, legal considerations and many more. Workshop concludes with a written exam.