3:30 pm – 4:45 pm

Learning Format: Active Learning

This workshop will walk participants through John Simmons’s “Things Great and Small” and help them develop and think about what needs to be included in their own Collections Policy. Participants should be able to leave with an outline of a Collections Policy.

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: Active Learning

Learning Format: Conversation

Municipal Museums have a unique relationship when working with Tribal consultation. As Museum professionals, we play the role of envoys from our Council and City Management and Tribal representatives are envoys for their Council and Tribal Management. As such, we are formally negotiating between two world views and two sovereign Nations. We will use recent examples of consultation regarding the role museums play, including name changes, the development of programming, exhibits, and more. 

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 moderator, presenter, and attendees and serve as an example of one possible forum of community gathering session.

Learning Format: Active Learning

Explore institutional knowledge as it relates to exhibit design, development, and execution in this session with panelists from a variety of organizations.

Come learn about techniques for cataloging and sharing institutional knowledge both inside and outside your organization, using it to train and maintain staff, and discover how to foster a culture of innovation.

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.

Learning Format: Active Learning

Diversity internships emerged as museums sought to address historic and systematic underrepresentation of BIPOC staff members. Learn about three models of diversity internship programs at three different museums—what has made them successful, where could they improve—and take away your own ideas for starting or strengthening similar programs at your own institution.

Learning Format: Passive Learning

Refresh your knowledge on the basics of art and artifact collections and exhibition insurance.  Learn some of the current issues in dealing with your permanent collection coverage as well as exhibition insurance on a domestic and international level. In addition, the panelists will cover risk management practices specifically for collections in regions prone to earthquake, volcanic eruptions, windstorms, floods and other catastrophes.

Learning Format: Conversation

This roundtable session will bring together four museum professionals currently engaged in decolonization work as they discuss what it means to move towards an indigenization framework. Panelists, who span the gamut from seasoned staff to emerging professionals, will consider a range of questions such as: What is the difference between decolonization and indigenization? Who is engaged in this work? Are there good national or international models? And what are the implications for both museum policy and practice?