By Dewey Blanton

The AAM Annual Meeting will bring 5,500 museum professionals to LA this May for the 104th edition of the largest museum gathering in the world.

This year’s American Association of Museums (AAM) Annual Meeting is coming west, slated for Los Angeles May 23-26. And the 104^th edition of the largest museum gathering in the world will be more international than ever.

Seeking to take advantage of both the meeting’s geographic location and the changing nature of museum issues, AAM has launched its first Global Issues Track. Ten of the more than 160 program sessions will be simultaneously translated into Spanish and Mandarin, making the session content on collections care and global issues more accessible to both domestic and international colleagues.  For a glimpse of the array of program sessions, the Advance Program is available online at www.aam-us.org/am10.

In addition, AAM wants to make the meeting more accessible to Westerners and all museum professionals, offering big savings for those who take advantage of the Early Bird promotion (up to $240 off regular registration for those who register before February 5). Visit www.aam-us.org/am10 for details. And see you ─ along with many of your WMA colleagues ─ in LA in May