4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Reinventing Field Trip Programs
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.
Museum Stores: More than Your Cash Cow
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.
See Beyond the Art: Obtaining Mindfulness of Safety
Learning Format: Active Learning
Creating meaningful experiences through exhibition and visual display is one of our major goals for our communities, but what happens in between that? How do we maintain a safe and enjoyable experience for our guests, docents, and volunteers? This session will address the health and safety considerations of staff who work tirelessly behind the scenes and the front lines. Participants will learn to identify safety issues including hazards of common substances used in art handling.
You Collect What? Case Studies in How to Care for Unusual Artifacts
Learning Format: Conversation
Every collecting organization has an artifact that provokes the question, “what do we do with this?” or “how should we do this?” From STEAM collections to history or art collections, this session will explore the different ways to care for collection oddities. WMA and the Registrars Committee-Western Region (RCWR) team up to present case studies on specific artifacts, lessons learned, and strategies for caring for the unusual artifacts in your collection.