Ventana - Salon K

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

Learning Format: Active Learning

The International Indigenous Librarians’ Forum (IILF) convened for the first time in Hawaii in November 2023. IILF opened at Waimea Valley on O’ahu where an archaeological kauhale (house site) was transformed into a living museum for Forum Delegates to explore under the direction of Native Hawaiian cultural practitioners. This talk investigates the creation of a cross-cultural, professional gathering using indigenous protocols and authentic interpretation within a context of colonial tourism and settler occupation in Hawaui,.

Learning Format: Active Learning

The overall focus of this session is to demonstrate how collections staff and development staff can develop a true fundraising partnership. This session will help fundraisers better understand how to work closely with collections staff members to craft successful funding proposals. It will also help collections staff members communicate the community impact and visitor benefit of highly technical (and expensive) collections projects.

Learning Format: Active Learning

Talkback exhibits prompt visitors to respond on Post-it Notes, notebooks, or digital platforms, bringing their perspectives and voices into exhibitions. Such exhibits have become commonplace in museums, but few are treating the responses as data sources and mining them for insights into visitor engagement, meaning-making, and dialogue. In this session, presenters will discuss case studies and provide frameworks for analyzing different types of talkback data. Attendees will share their talkback data and develop analysis plans.

Learning Format: Conversation

Get ready for lively conversation about everything we come across when attempting to balance the demands and desires of outside stakeholders with our museum’s capacity. Whether it’s a city’s censorship of your exhibit or an outside collaborator who has no clue they need to abide deadlines...let’s share and learn from others who live to tell the tale! Spoiler: we’ll be modeling Edward de Bono’s “Six Thinking Hats”--a simple and effect (and fun!) thinking process.

Learning Format: Active Learning

How might care theory and praxis cultivate a sense of belonging between university students and museums? What does care theory and praxis look like currently in university art museums? This session will explore how one art museum became a site for cultivating care and belonging through two different approaches to audience engagement. Participants are invited to reflect on the role of museums and museum education while practicing acts of care.

Learning Format: Conversation

Do you ever find yourself having to lead people who don't directly report to you? Us too. Join this group of museum professionals to engage in conversation about managing and leading in multiple directions with professionalism, humor, and grace. The session will start with a discussion between the panelists, and then move into small group conversations with all participants. It will conclude by reconvening and sharing what we heard, offering best practices for all.

Learning Format: Conversation

Cultural planning provides a process for collaborating across sectors and ensuring that museums better meet community needs and deepen their community impact by identifying high-level priorities. This session will focus on how cultural plans benefit from museums as leaders in the planning process, how museums benefit from participating in cultural plans, and how planning across institutions deepens impact for all museums in an ecosystem.

Are you an early museum professional who wants to prepare themselves for future roles and responsibilities? Or maybe you are a new manager feeling overwhelmed by the mountain of skills and experiences that you think you need to be an expert at? This half day workshop will provide an introduction to 7 core management skills to help you identify your superhero skills (strengths) and your kryptonite (growth edges).

PRESENTER:

• Edward Tepporn, Executive Director, Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation

Cost: $25, includes all materials