Thursday, October 5, 2023

Each year, in conjunction with the Western Museums Association Annual Meeting, the Registrars Committee - Western Region organizes its members to volunteer their professional skills at a museum near where the meeting is being held. Join us for “CSI: Registrars” (Collections Services Initiative), an all-day event of giving back to our collections community!

In this hands-on workshop, we will remediate damaged paper-based items (books, photographs, and archives). After a brief training, the group will dry drenched books and photographs, remove soot from smoke-damaged paper, and triage damaged archives. We will end with a discussion of best practices and what was learned in the training, options for other paper-based risks such as pests and mold, and create preliminary disaster plans for paper-based items in individual collections.

Cost: $25 (Includes all materials)

Stories are powerful. They engage visitors on a personal level, fix ideas and details in their
memories, and encourage empathy with unfamiliar historical people and events. This hands-on
workshop will help you understand and use story elements and genres to discover the most
compelling connection between your exhibition content and audience for your next history-based exhibition.

Cost: $50 (includes all materials, a story design review of interpretive plan drafts, and advice on
generic approaches)

This workshop will focus on how sharing our human-centered HR practices will uplift us all
Specifically, it will: (1) explore what human-centered HR practices are and why they are so
important; (2) offer up concrete examples of the development/implementation of human-centered HR practices; and (3) help attendees understand how to advocate for human-centered HR practices within their own organizations, no matter their role. Attendees also will have an
opportunity to share with one another human-centered HR practice shifts taking place in their
own organizations.

In 2022, the Autry Museum of the West opened its new Resources Center which houses its unique collection focused on the historical and contemporary American West. This includes, over 230,000 cultural materials that represent the diversity of Indigenous cultures across the Americas. The Resources Center also cares for artwork, saddles, clothing and costumes, and a vast archaeology collection and archives.

Conservation at The Huntington! Tour The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical
Gardens’ conservation lab where books, manuscripts, photographs, prints, paintings, and
sculpture, are assessed and treated. Then, tour the Herbarium, a depository of plant specimens

Embrace community and connection with Pasadena Museum of History and The Gamble House: two neighboring landmarks representative of the cultural life of Pasadena, past and present.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a leader in robotic space exploration, sending rovers to Mars, probes into the farthest reaches of the solar system, and satellites to advance understanding of our home planet. JPL’s first spacecraft, Explorer I, helped lift America into the Space Age. Our spacecraft have flown to every planet in the solar system, the Sun, and into interstellar space in a quest to better understand the origins of the universe, and of life. Stops on the tour include Mission Control, Visitor Center/Museum, and Spacecraft Assembly. U.S.