5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Join your fellow directors, trustees, and leadership team members in this special reception.

$40 per ticket

Sponsored by DLR Group

Come for the tabletop games, stay for the stories! Like a game of ping pong, many museum professionals bounce between sometimes odd or indirect pathways to get to where they are going. Hang out, share your own odd jobs stories, or learn about others’ journeys. We will learn with and from each other on how to identify and communicate your unique transferrable skills, and what could take you to the next level. Open to all museum professionals - reminisce or get inspired!

$15 per ticket, includes one drink 

Hoping to meet some new people at this year’s WMA Annual Meeting? Join us to play Business Card BINGO! At this happy hour session, grab a BINGO card and start moving around the room. As you meet new people, ask them some questions from your BINGO card. When you find a match, attach their business card to that space. We’ll supply the BINGO cards, the adhesive, and even some blank cards – just in case you don’t have any yourself. 

$15 per ticket, includes one drink 

Get to know colleagues working in small museums from around the region over drinks. In addition to providing an opportunity for attendees from small museums to get together in a relaxed setting, we will also discuss the possibility of creating a Western Region small museum group that could function as a special interest group (like the Registrars), creating programs, conference session proposals, and other activities.

$15 per ticket, includes one drink 

Get to know colleagues working in collections from around the region over drinks. Registrars Committee Western Region has organized this happy hour to give attendees the opportunity to discuss a variety of collections care and registration topics with other attendees, including but not limited to: policies and procedures, emergency preparedness and response, and ethical concerns.

$15 per ticket, includes one drink

Get to know colleagues working on exhibitions from around the region over drinks. Re-energize and engage with your peers in this playful happy hour. Participants should bring their creative spirit and be prepared to have fun while making new connections. The goal is to gather people interested in, or working on, creating museum exhibitions. Along with socializing, we’ll talk about collaborative design processes and conduct fun activities for developing ideas around random exhibition topics.

Join your fellow directors, trustees, and leadership team members in this special reception.

$40 per ticket 

Sponsored by DLR Group

Get to know colleagues working in collections from around the region over drinks! This Collections Happy Hour would focus on the odd artifacts in a museum’s collection. Every museum has something a bit bizarre that they care for, so this meet-up would celebrate all those oddities.

Do you sometimes feel like you don’t quite fit in? Does everyone else seem to have more “museum cred” than you? You are not alone. So many of us who are drawn to museums come from a variety of experiences and fields.

Get to know fellow emerging museum professionals (EMPs) from around the region over drinks. This informal talking session will help to facilitate conversations between two veteran museum professionals and younger, emerging museum workers - about how to navigate and advance their careers in a constantly changing museum environment.  Practical advice, story sharing and answers to regularly asked questions would all feature in these conversations.