Aspire to Play: Designing Playful Museum Experiences
Dive into four diverse case studies of how play is used to develop skills, strengthen character, and promote learning outcomes for all different types of museums. Challenge your definition of play and its benefits. Learn how you can incorporate play into different levels of your organization. You will even get the chance to play yourself!
Morning Coffee
FREE!
Sponsored by Art Bridges
Join your fellow Annual Meeting attendees for coffee while connecting with new colleagues and seeing familiar faces.
A Decolonizing Approach to Exhibit Development with Indigenous Communities
NHMU's team shares their collaborative approach to creating an exhibit on Indigenous basketry. This process, guided by co-curators nominated by their tribes, has strengthened NHMU's decolonization efforts and created a model for exhibit development, building on NHMU's history of relationship-building with Indigenous communities. We have witnessed strengthened relationships within and between co-curators, NHMU, and tribes. The group has a shared resolve to preserve and communicate Indigenous knowledge and share this model with the museum community.
Roundtables
Experience a casual showcase of innovations from across the museum field, offering you the chance to connect directly with the creators - federal agencies, associations, and inspired individuals alike. This year's roundtables include...
Relationship Building: Do You Know Your Neighbor?
Presenters
Marina Gutierrez, Museum Education Coordinator, Agua Caliente Cultural Museum
Carolina Zataray, Senior Manager of Education and Public Engagement, Agua Caliente Cultural Museum
Coffee Klatch
FREE!
Join your fellow Annual Meeting attendees for coffee while connecting with new colleagues and seeing familiar faces.
Coffee Break
FREE!
Join your fellow Annual Meeting attendees for coffee while connecting with new colleagues and seeing familiar faces.
WMA Breakfast Club
FREE!
Join the WMA Book Club to discuss what you're reading. Whether it's fiction, non-fiction, or museum-related, we want to know about the books living rent-free in your head.
Feasibility in Action: Assessing a Potential Asian Pacific American Museum
Go behind the scenes to learn about the efforts of the Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture. Hear more about the Commission's process to create a comprehensive report examining the viability and long-term sustainability of a new national entity dedicated to the contributions and impact of Asian and Pacific Americans in the United States, and share your thoughts in a simulated visioning activity.
Better Together: Exploring Large-Scale Cross-Organization Collaboration
What methods can we use to work together in offering top-notch statewide programming and coordination? Join three organizations to discuss one model of large-scale cross-organization collaboration involving school programs teams from ten organizations. Through the iSEE partnership, museum and school staff work together to promote excellence in education, navigate challenging situations, maintain funding sources, and offer programming statewide. Participants will learn from presenters about the benefits and logistics of running programs of this kind.
Paddling Together: Navigating Community Engagement and Oceanic Collections
This session highlights examples of successful collections engagement strategies that aspire to improve community relations and public relevance while building mutual trust between indigenous Pacific Islander communities and the collections/archives that house Oceanic ancestral belongings.