How can you safely and effectively display your costume and clothing collections? This webinar will look at display solutions across a range of budget constraints, including mannequin fabrication, modification of existing mannequins, and hybrid approaches. FREE.
Society for Military History 2016 Annual Meeting
Sponsored by the Museum Association of New York in partnership with the New York Council for Humanities and New York State Council on the Arts.
Are you as good of a manager as you want to be? Could you use a refresher on how good management techniques can improve the productivity of your history organization’s paid and unpaid staff? Join us for a practical webinar geared toward history professionals that will help you learn new skills in employee assessment and review, communication, time management, and work relationships. Presented by AASLH.
Presented by the College and University Museums PAG
The Natural Sciences Collections Association will be holding their next annual conference & AGM at The Silk Mill and Derby Museum & Art Gallery.
The sea has always been the heart of Newport’s cultural identity. Through the 17th and 18th centuries, maritime enterprise forged cultural connections between cosmopolitan Newporters and makers, traders and collectors in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. But even as the city’s economy shifted away from trade towards scientific inquiry and recreation in the 19th and 20th centuries, the environment, heritage and mythology of the sea ensured that Newport remained a wellspring of artistic inspiration.
One of a three-part workshop series on Connecting with the New Social Studies Frameworks: What Historical Societies, Museums and Libraries Need to Know.
Presented by the American Alliance of Museums.
The Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission (RIHPHC) presents the Annual Rhode Island Statewide Historic Preservation Conference in different communities around the state. The daylong conference provides local preservationists to network, share ideas, present recent projects, and discuss new challenges.
Are there hazardous materials in your collection but you don’t know what to do with them? Or do you think you might have problem materials lurking in your collection that you don’t even know about? This webinar will help you identify hazardous collection items, the safety risks they pose to you and your visitors, and how to control those risks in practical ways.
FREE. This site is managed by the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation of Artistic and Historic Works with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
One of a three-part workshop series on Connecting with the New Social Studies Frameworks: What Historical Societies, Museums and Libraries Need to Know.
Association of Children's Museums conference.
Presented by the Conservators PAG
2016 Executive Education Program for Museum Leaders aimed at helping experienced art museum executives become better leaders to strengthen their institutions' capabilities. For more information and to apply, visit www.cgu.edu/gli or contact gli@cgu.edu.
One of a three-part workshop series on Connecting with the New Social Studies Frameworks: What Historical Societies, Museums and Libraries Need to Know.
For more information, contact Matt Timme, Mirken Coordinator of Education and Public Programs, at mrtimme@colby.edu.
How do we look at our institutions and the barriers that prevent full inclusion? Is meeting ADA compliance satisfactory? Do you think people with disabilities don’t attend your programs? Is it always about money?
Addressing policy and the need for institutional buy-in, Cultural Access New England (CANE) will facilitate a lively discussion for cultural organizations wanting to go beyond regulatory requirements and broaden community outreach, develop strategic plans, and create inclusive environments. Information regarding regulations and resources will be present in a workshop designed to support the Executive Director AND the Volunteer.
Presented by the Museum Trustee Association.
The Historic House Museum in America is not dead nor are most of them dying. The field, however, needs to take time to reflect and renew as the world around our historic sites continues to change.
Association of Academic Museums and Galleries annual conference Annual Conference.
AAM 2016 Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo
The Museums & Race 2016 Gathering at AAM is a direct result of the Museums & Race 2016 convening in Chicago where participants expressed interest in extending the exchange and dialogue to involve a broader group of museum workers and leaders. AAM annual meeting attendees and those not registered for the meeting a comfortable and welcoming environment where participants - both people of color and white people - can engage in dialogue about race and museums as well as find space to strategize, recharge, and enter into self-reflection.
How-to, What's new, What's next? Exploring Our Collections
Build your museum’s effectiveness at High Impact, Low Drama: Optimizing Your Board/CEO Team, an essential, customized workshop for assessing governance best practices and maintaining a culture of teamwork at your museum.
Build your museum’s effectiveness at High Impact, Low Drama: Optimizing Your Board/CEO Team, an essential, customized workshop for assessing governance best practices and maintaining a culture of teamwork at your museum.
Build your museum’s effectiveness at High Impact, Low Drama: Optimizing Your Board/CEO Team, an essential, customized workshop for assessing governance best practices and maintaining a culture of teamwork at your museum.
The Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums.
Putting History on the Map Together Across the Commonwealth A Conference for Massachusetts History Organizations
The The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association has a call for proposals for their 2016 fall conference held on the campus of Keene College, the weekend of October 21-22, 2016. The deadline for proposals is June 15 2016.
The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections conference. In a world of climate change and ever decreasing biodiversity, sustainability should be the criterion that ideally determines all planning and decisions, ranging from field work to construction projects, from ethical aspects to cost-benefit analyses.
Build your museum’s effectiveness at High Impact, Low Drama: Optimizing Your Board/CEO Team, an essential, customized workshop for assessing governance best practices and maintaining a culture of teamwork at your museum.
Build your museum’s effectiveness at High Impact, Low Drama: Optimizing Your Board/CEO Team, an essential, customized workshop for assessing governance best practices and maintaining a culture of teamwork at your museum.
Build your museum’s effectiveness at High Impact, Low Drama: Optimizing Your Board/CEO Team, an essential, customized workshop for assessing governance best practices and maintaining a culture of teamwork at your museum.
The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife (founded 1976) is pleased to announce the subject of its forty-first conference, New England at Sea: Maritime Memory and Material Culture, to be held in Deerfield June 24-26, 2016. The topic explores how the region remembered its maritime past. Proposals are sought for papers on shipbuilding, fishing and whaling, maritime art and literature, the coastal trade, prize-taking and piracy, shore leave, and charitable associations such as seamen's aid societies.
Presented by the Registrars PAG
Presented by The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, along with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. The summer seminar brings together graduate students, historians, and the staff of public history institutions—museums, historic sites, libraries—to explore and create ways to interpret African American history and culture for the broader public.
In partnership with the Minnesota Association of Museums
In conjunction with the 2016 Annual Meeting for the Association of Documentary Editing, they are offering this for individuals new to the practice of historical documentary editing.
During this AASLH webinar, Susan Proctor, education coordinator at Surratt House, will discuss the elements of religion that have been incorporated into the history of Mary Surratt and the museum.
American Association for State and Local History and Michigan Museums Association Joint Annual Meeting
Applications for the Class of 2016 are due May 16.
Call for Proposals
Ninth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum seeks proposals for its upcoming conference. Proposals are due June 16, 2016.
Proposals are due July 15, 2016.