Hilton Pasadena, San Marino Ballroom

Learning Format: Passive Learning

School field trips are among the most effective ways of connecting young students with museums and historic sites in their community. With the longstanding nature of these programs, many institutions are finding them ripe for reexamination. What new resources can be utilized and what changes in approach? Three varied local institutions will discuss the successes and pitfalls that they’ve experienced as they have reinvented their field trip programs to meet the needs of students today.

Learning Format: Active Learning

Museum Stores are uniquely positioned to raise the institution's profile and are critical to the overall financial and educational health of the institution. They enhance visitor experience through store design, engaged/informed staff, marketing, and product selection. Hear how museum stores, together with their institutions, have worked to create memories that reverberate beyond museum walls and how the Museum Store Association’s Museum Store Sunday brings together museums across the country in support of their institutions.

Learning Format: Passive Learning

Museums are often at the risk of closing, and they do close for numerous reasons. How a community supports its museums and how deep is that engagement, can play a pivotal role in saving museums and also in easing the pain of closure to actually provide benefit. This session discusses the real-life example of the Pasadena Museum of Art closure in 2018 with former employees, and also other museum case studies.

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)

Learning Format: Active Learning

The Empathetic Museum specializes in increasing organizational and individual capacity for empathetic practice. After many years of consulting, the Empathetic Museum team has co-designed a workbook

This session will run until 12:30pm

Learning Format: Active Learning

 As some of the most trusted institutions in the United States, museums can play an important role in supporting, initiating, catalyzing, and teaching about climate action. In this session, learn about the actions of two small museums—Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, the Palo Alto Art Center—and a volunteer collective working to create change in museum programming and operations. This session will include an interactive component that allows participants to start considering a climate action plan. 

Learning Format: Active Learning

Engaging in different types of play is central to how children grow their bodies and minds. Self-directed play and unstructured learning allow children to imagine and explore all senses of possibility. We will ask participants to critically think about their definition of play and their impressions of the role play plays in museum settings. In this interactive session, participants will get charged up to think differently about engaging early learners and supporting caregivers in their space.

Learning Format: Active Learning

When was the last time you learned something from someone that wasn’t your age? Intergenerational programs at museums unite participants in meaningful experiences. This session explores engagement strategies with a focus on the importance of creating community, mindful teaching, dialogue, and the exchange of artistic traditions. Join us for a dialogue and hands-on intergenerational art making experience. 

Learning Format: Active Learning

Learning Format: Conversation

What are best practices for advancing equitable practices in museums? This interactive session introduces new tools and resources focused on fostering dialogue within museum teams about DEAI (diversity, equity, access and inclusion) practices and action.  Currently in development by CCLI (Cultural Competence Learning Institute) and featuring data from a recent museum-wide study, the tools include Actionable Insights for museums to leverage institutional strengths and take action toward inclusive practice for their institutions.