12:30 pm – 1:45 pm

FREE!

Join your colleagues in the Exhibit Hall where you can explore vendor offerings and enjoy lunch courtesy of the WMA. Make sure to start bidding on the fabulous items in the silent auction that were generously donated by our members. All proceeds benefit the Wanda Chin Scholarship funds to help colleagues attend future Annual Meetings. 

Cost: $60
 

A celebration of WMA’s 90 years of gathering museum professionals to better our field with a special love letter to WMA by our Board President, Noelle Kahanu, Acting Director, Museum Studies Graduate Certificate Program, University of Hawaii at Monoa.
 

Sponsored by DLR Group

A celebration of the WMA Community with guest speaker Mike Murawski, author of Museums as Agents of Change. Murawski will discuss how museums can be more human-centered.

Cost: 67

Mike Murawski, Author of Museums as Agents of Change

Meet your OMA colleagues and hear updates and future plans from OMA. Special speaker and activities TBD. Seating is limited.

Special speaker Nili Yosha, Artistic and Executive Director of Outside the Frame, an organization that trains homeless and marginalized youth to be directors of their own films and lives.

Cost: $25

Sponsored by Rachael Christine Consulting, Historical Research Associates, Sticky Co.

A celebration of the WMA Community with special guest speaker Regan Pro, Deputy Director, Public Programs and Social Impact, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. She will share the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art’s approach to social impact.

Cost: $65

This luncheon is open to Directors, Deputy Directors, CEOs, CFOs, Leadership Team Members, and Trustees. The Luncheon will feature guest speaker Ben Garcia, Executive Director, American LGBTQ+ Museum. He will share his experiences being the first Executive Director of a new museum.

Cost: $65

The Registrar’s Committee Western Region (RCWR) Annual Business Meeting Luncheon is open to RCWR members, collection professionals, and related vendors. Underwritten by Registrar’s Committee Western Region and sponsored by Collector Systems.

Cost: $35

Sponsored by Collector Systems

Especially for curators, development officers, educators, evaluators, exhibit designers, and all who make possible the engaging stories that museums tell, but open to all. The recipient of the Charles Redd Award for exhibit excellence will present on the winning exhibition.

Cost: $65

Enjoy meeting your colleagues from tribal museums and supporters of Native American concerns. All are welcome! The Luncheon will feature guest speaker Cindi Alvitre (Tongva), M.A., Cultural Curator, Director & Co-Founder of Ti'at Society. Discussion will follow.

Cost: $65

Sponsored by Barona Band of Mission Indians