9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Each year, in conjunction with the Western Museums Association Annual Meeting, the Registrars Committee - Western Region organizes its members to volunteer their professional skills at a museum near where the meeting is being held. Join us for “CSI: Registrars” (Collections Services Initiative), an all-day event of giving back to our collections community!   For more information on participating...
In this hands-on workshop, we will remediate damaged paper-based items (books, photographs, and archives). After a brief training, the group will dry drenched books and photographs, remove soot from smoke-damaged paper, and triage damaged archives. We will end with a discussion of best practices and what was learned in the training, options for other paper-based risks such as pests and mold, and...
Stories are powerful. They engage visitors on a personal level, fix ideas and details in their
memories, and encourage empathy with unfamiliar historical people and events. This hands-on
workshop will help you understand and use story elements and genres to discover the most
compelling connection between your exhibition content and audience for your next history-based exhibition.
Cost: $50 (...
This workshop will focus on how sharing our human-centered HR practices will uplift us all
Specifically, it will: (1) explore what human-centered HR practices are and why they are so
important; (2) offer up concrete examples of the development/implementation of human-centered HR practices; and (3) help attendees understand how to advocate for human-centered HR practices within their own...
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