Gallery 4 - National Automobile Museum
ELEVATE Museum Workplace Culture
Learning Format: Passive Learning
Our museums need positive and equitable cultures to thrive. Staff cultures that prioritize personal well-being and engagement can improve institutional impact, employee retention, and overall success, yet many museums rely on outdated HR practices. Let’s work together to build organizations where the humans inside are valued and respected. Join us for philosophical discussions and practical takeaways to ELEVATE museum workplace culture for the benefit of museum staff and the communities they serve.
Elevate WMA's D&I Committee: Help Us Establish Our Goals
Learning Format: Conversation
Join us for a feedback session on how to ELEVATE WMA’s D&I practices! The newly-formed WMA D&I Committee wants our work to be informed by the people we serve, so we're hosting an input-gathering session on what we hope to achieve together. We will discuss the role of DEIA in museums, how WMA can help, actionable goals, and more. Attendees will provide input that will guide the D&I direction of WMA for years to come.
Exhibit Planning with Mission in Mind: "Big Ideas" Elevate Exhibits
Learning Format: Active Learning
Designing, updating or evaluating your exhibits? Keep your mission, vision and values close. Embrace the big idea! Join panelists using core documents to say yes - and no - to exhibits, programs and installations. How well do your exhibits serve your target audiences, staff, donors, and the people and places represented by the stories you tell? Do visitors get the message? Join this interactive session to elevate storytelling, hone your "main message" and center your values.
Museums in the Second Trump Administration
Learning Format: Conversation
How are you and your museum navigating the new political and cultural landscape? From funding cuts to layoffs to federal DEIA policies rollbacks, our field is experiencing a period of rapid, unpredictable, and alarming change. Join colleagues from a range of museums to build community and strategize.
Turn up the NOISE: Elevate Your Museum's Strategic Plan
Learning Format: Active Learning
Ready to elevate your museum’s impact? Ditch the old SWOT and turn up the NOISE—Needs, Opportunities, Improvements, Strengths, and Exceptions! This interactive session puts strategy into action with a live NOISE analysis of the WMA conference. Get hands-on experience with this dynamic tool and walk away with a fresh, engaging approach to stakeholder-driven strategic planning that helps your museum rise above the noise and focus on what truly matters!
Nevertheless, she/they/he persisted: strategies for staying the course in turbulent times
Learning Format: Conversation
Join us for honest conversations about making progress while navigating cyclical changes of political ideologies and the manipulation of language often associated with them. Learn about historical examples of adaptation from our field and how lessons learned then can guide us now. Colleagues will share lived experiences and invite you to share yours in small groups focused on helping you find your own answers, while building empathy for differing perspectives as strategies to stay the course.