Saturday, September 28, 2024

Learning Format: Active Learning

Join us in the stunningly beautiful Tucson Desert for an immersive experience in problem solving. Step outside the convention - al meeting space as we embark on a journey of self-discovery and community-building. Through personal reflection, partner discussions, and group activities, we’ll tap into our strengths to tackle challenges creatively. Leave with a renewed sense of purpose, actionable plan, and a stronger network of support.

Learning Format: Conversation

The balance between collections preservation and access is familiar in theory and practice. We are now tasked to add a third element to this precarious balance: sustainability. Three panelists will discuss the challenges faced and solutions to incorporat - ing sustainability measures in museums. The panel will consider the multifaceted meanings of sustainability including environ - mental and fiscal sustainability, longevity and resiliency of collections, and the museum’s role in sustaining communities through environmental and social justice.

Learning Format: Passive Learning

Rather than focusing on challenges, what happens when museums view collaborations with Native communities as creative opportunities that can drive innovation? This session will use the in-progress redesign of a permanent exhibition at the High Desert Museum as a case study to illustrate how a collaborative development process with Native communities can transform exhibition strategies. Project partners will demonstrate ways that meaningful dialogue can drive new ideas and how other insti - tutions can embrace this approach.

Learning Format: Active Learning

What’s in a study? What does it take? Come chat with experts in museum management, financial, and facility/exhibit planning to learn about the types of studies, and how to balance the players involved, the scopes, and the needs of an institution in the moment. Attendees will explore developing an outline style RFP with your colleagues in a small-group activity.

Learning Format: Passive Learning

In 2021, the Cultural Resources Department at Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community completed construction of a new stand-alone 24,500 square foot cultural repository to house and care for tribal collections under the direction of the Huhugam Ki: Museum. In transferring the collections from existing storage areas, the staff addressed the need to build a better collections foundation to meet the tribal priorities and objectives for a cultural repository designed by tribal members.

Learning Format: Active Learning

Learning Format: Passive Learning

Museum professionals and sustainability experts will share the latest ideas and advancements in museum policy, design, and operations in environmental sustainability.  Participants will learn how they can engage in these programs or take these ideas back to their institutions and begin or advance their own sustainability initiatives. Ample time will be reserved for questions allowing participants to share their experiences with the group. Presenters will provide prompting questions for the audience to engage in conversation.

Learning Format: Active Learning

Share a mean tweet, online review, visitor comment card, performance appraisal, museum secret or wish and then drop it into the fire and let it burn!. The cleansing flames will burn away the negativity and like phoenixes (or in this case down the road from Phoenix) we will all rise from the ashes and fly into the future full of positivity and optimism!

To better appreciate the natural landscape of Tucson, Arizona, and to demonstrate best practices in outdoor education, we will be hosting an educational ethnobotanical nature hike followed by a plant-pollinator art activity. This activity will highlight the combined knowledges of the San Diego Natural History Museum, the Barona Cultural Center & Museum, and the New Children’s Museum. This activity is for those who teach children and adults about nature or are interested in learning more themselves

Learning Format: Passive Learning

Join your collection colleagues in reviewing and/or learning the proper way to prepare a basic condition report for works on paper. Condition reports are not only important for the management of your collection but also important documentation for your insurance broker should a damage occur. It is also best practice in collection stewardship. Works on paper may include prints, drawings; collage; manuscripts; scrolls. Basic handling and recommended storage will also be covered.