Changing Exhibits Gallery - National Automobile Museum
Come as you Are: A discussion among emerging, mid-, and late-career museum professionals
Learning Format: Active Learning
In a time where the future may be full of questions and unknowns, it can be difficult to understand what success means in your current career stage. This session offers a safe space to explore these ideas with a panel of emerging, mid-, and late-career museum professionals, where you are invited to share your story and think together about how our ideas of success have changed throughout our unique paths, and what they might look like now.
When Your Stuff Doesn't Fit: Addressing Collections Facility Challenges
Learning Format: Active Learning
Running out of room to house your collections? Is your object storage space leaking? Just received a sizable gift? Any of these situations can strain optimal collections management. Physical space matters, and upgrading, expanding, or moving collections storage spaces can be operational and budgetary challenges. Learn from a panel of collections facility experts how to approach and address these challenges, including where to begin, who should be involved, and best practices for success.
Decolonizing Science Narratives in Museums
Learning Format: Conversation
Exhibit Redesign: Strategies for Success
Learning Format: Passive Learning
Beyond the Budget: Unlocking Hidden Funds for Collections
Learning Format: Active Learning
Elevating Your Mindset in Collections
Learning Format: Conversation
Elevating Your Mindset in Collections will dive into the benefits of maintaining collections for the public as well as ourselves. Collections staff work hard and are passionate, but many times behind the scenes work is overlooked and under appreciated (even unintentionally so). The Registrars Committee Western Region wants to bring some joy back into the work we do and celebrate our wins, big and small.