2022 Conference
Conference Sessions Handouts
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Wednesday, November 2
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Concurrent Sessions
- Destination Marketing and Museums: Enhancing Communities and Economies
- Fuller Collections, Fuller Narratives: Reimagining the Limits of the Archive
- Moving Towards Sustainability in the Art Studio
- moving_towards_sustainability_in_the_art_studio_handout.docx
- moving_toward_sustainability_in_the_art_studio_handout.pdf
- Tackling “Tough” Topics with Families
- Tackling_Tough_Topics_with_Families_Breakout_Activity.pdf
- Tackling_Tough_Topics_with_Families_Online_Resources.pdf
- Tackling_Tough_Topics_with_Families_Presentation.pdf
- The Small Museum Toolkit
- NEMA Preventative Care Plan Worksheet.docx
- 2022 NEMA Small Museum Toolkit Presentation.pptx
- Social Media Calendar Worksheet.docx
- PReP-MA.pdf
- Small Museum Toolkit Workbook.pdf
- Water Has a Memory: Preserving Strawbery Banke and the City of Portsmouth from Sea Level Rise
12:30 – 1:45 pm
PAG Lunch Sessions
- Directors and Trustees Lunch
- Education PAG
- Industrial History of New England
- Library & Archives PAG
- Open Lunch Discussion
- Registrars & Collections Care Specialists PAG
- YEP PAG for Emerging Museum Professionals
2:00 – 5:00 pm
Off-Site Session
Through the Eyes of a Child: Three Disciplines, Three Facilitated Spaces
2:00 – 3:00 pm
Concurrent Sessions
- Career Center: Fixing those Job Descriptions!
- Finding the Right NEH Grant
- “I Shall Want Someone With Me”: Exploring Mental Health Through Archives
- NEMA’s Climate and Environment Community of Practice
- Successful Fundraising During Times of Transition
- Teaching Hidden Histories
3:30 – 5:00 pm
Concurrent Sessions
- Building Your Effective Network
- Hands-on Showcase: Tools and Materials for Making Affordable Exhibits
- Listening to Our Community
- Old Houses, New (More Inclusive) Stories
- Peer Support Lounge: BIPOC Museum People
- Rev250: What’s on Tap for the Semiquincentennial in YOUR Area?
- What Is Your Museum’s Social Impact? MOMSI Knows Best.
Thursday, November 3
7:30 – 8:30 am
Independent Museum Professionals Affinity Gathering Breakfast
9:00 am – Noon
Off-site Sessions
- Beyond Your Doors: Tools for Sense of Place Narratives
- Industry and Service at Springfield Armory National Historic Site
9:00 – 10:30 am
Concurrent Sessions
- Amplifying Native Voices: A Panel Discussion
- Capital Campaigns 101
- Sample_Campaign_Timeline_9.19.2022.xlsx
- 2022_NEMA_Conference_Campaign_101_JA_Draft1.pptx
- SB Case Statement 10_18 .pdf
- Nimble, Innovative, Special, Community Oriented!
- Peer Support Lounge: LGBTQ+ Museum People
- Telling the Tales of What Didn’t Happen Here: Interpreting the History of 19th Century Enslavement at New England Sites
- Who Was Mary Duncan? Accessing New Narratives at Historic House Museums
10:00 – 10:30 am
Demonstration Station
- Yale University Art Gallery’s Sustainable LED Lighting Conversion Plan
11:00 – 11:30 am
Demonstration Station
- Help find out what collections cost!
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Concurrent Sessions
- Career Center: Resume Review Session 1
- Crafting the Creative Mindset
- Decolonizing Starts with You
- One Roof, One Mission: Establishing Institutional Support Structures for Visitor-Facing Staff Tackling Polarized Topics
- Strengthening Democracy: Labor Unions in the Arts
- Return of the Exhibit Project Slide Show and Tell
12:30 – 1:45 pm
PAG LUNCH SESSIONS
- College & University Museums PAG
- Exhibits PAG
- Historic Sites PAG
- Membership, Development, PR and Marketing PAG
- The Museum Directors’ Discussion
1:00 – 5:30 pm
Off-Site Sessions
- Fragments: A Progressive Museum Crawl
- Bringing Exhibits to Life: Turning Concepts into Creations
2:00 – 3:00 pm
Concurrent Sessions
- And the Award Goes to….YOU!
- Historic Properties Take on Climate Challenges
- Mindfulness Break
- Peer Support Lounge: Museum People with Disabilities
- Solving Museums Issues at Every Scale: The Impetus, Process, and Outcome of Strategic Thinking and Planning
- What’s In That Old Bottle? Collections Stewardship for Pharmaceutical Collections
3:30 – 4:00 pm
Demonstration Station
- Thinking Outside the Frame
3:30 – 5:00 pm
Concurrent Sessions
- Art Museums and the Neuro-diverse: Communities in Dialogue
- Career Center: Resume Review Session 2
- Empowering Historic Sites and House Museums to Talk Climate
- How to Step Up as a New(ish) Leader
- Inspiring and Engaging Volunteers through a Collaborative Program
Friday, November 4
8:00 am – Noon
On-Site Workshop
- Interpreting Slavery with Children and Teens at Museums and Historic Sites
9:00 – 10:00 am
Concurrent Sessions
- Advocacy: Engaging the Press to Make your Case
- Press & Publications_ Using media tools for museum advocacy.pdf
- CommonWealth Magazine.pdf
- Mass. is rich with smaller, local museums. Let’s support them. - The Boston Globe.pdf
- Career Center: “Finding Your Spark” – Self Discovery & Superhuman Museum Skills
- Reinventing Membership for a Hybrid Future
- Strategies for Latinx Museum Inclusion: A Resource from the AAM Latino Network
10:30 – 11:00 am
Career Conversation
10:30 – 11:30 am
Concurrent Sessions
- I kinda hate fundraising...but our museum needs money—what to do???
- Macro Mold: Environmental Issues and Long-term Preservation in a Historic House
- MASSCreative Advocacy Priorities Conversation
- Peer Support Lounge: Gender Equity in Museums Movement (GEMM) Meetup
- Redcoats & Rebels: Using Role-playing Games in Museum Education
- Start with Data, Finish with Engagement: Using Attitudinal Research to Engage with your Audience
Noon – 1:00 pm
Concurrent Sessions
- A Board Story: Museum Education Roundtable’s Slow but Steady Progress Towards Becoming its Best Self
- QR Codes in Museum Galleries: Wave of the Post-COVID Future or Fleeting Fad?
- So You’d Like to be an Executive Director?
- Whose Story?: Interpreting Collections through Collaborative Learning