11:15 am – 12:30 pm

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...
Learning Format: Conversation
This session focuses on recognizing the important role Museums play regarding community engagement and representation. Attendees will evaluate their experiences with engaging and supporting community and learn new methods for approaching, engaging, and working with the community to build new relationships. The session will be presented as a conversation between...
Learning Format: Passive Learning
Join your registrar and collection colleagues on learning about how to ship objects from your collection to and from another cultural institution or incoming loans for your exhibitions. This session will cover basic how to, terminology, resources, and provide templates for your use.  Airfreight (international and domestic) and trucking shipment options will be...
Learning Format: Conversation
Museum leaders have so many different kinds of people they must take care of that they often forget to take care of themselves. Putting on our own oxygen masks first can feel counter - intuitive, but it ’ s a cornerstone of sustainable leadership. It also models to others what well - being can look like. Join us for an honest convers ation about our struggles,...
Learning Format: Active Learning
How important is risk-taking in learning, developing skills, and building emotional intelligence? Can museums encourage visitors to assess and take risks responsibly? Many exhibits help visitors consider their decisions, and the risks they are willing to take. Whether the challenge is physical, creative, intellectual, social or emotional, exhibits and programs...
Learning Format: Active Learning
Artists Myisha Arellano and Michelle Glass will share the community engagement process of Interwoven Stories, a "quilted" mural created in collaboration with over 200 Pasadena-area community members over the past year. The 150-square-foot mural was created during public workshops in partnership with Armory Center for the Arts, NAACP Pasadena, Pasadena Community...
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...
Learning Format: Active Learning
In this session, learn how four different museums build and deliver their yearly programs. Join us for stories and tips from four different organizations, ranging from small to large, and learn the different ways we create and manage our programs. Hear ideas on building strategy, identifying audiences, balancing the offerings, assessment, and more. We’ll share our...
Learning Format: Conversation
Indigenous led museum and nature-based projects generally include discussions of human connectivity to the land and non-human relatives. In this session we move beyond typical perspectives to explore a spectrum of projects that teach about our connectivity to the natural world, some inside, some out, some that engage visitors through conventional museum practice and...
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