April 14, 2016 Much Ado About Mannequins: Making the Perfect Form Webinar

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.

April 14-17, 2016 Crossing Borders, Crossing Boundaries Ottawa, Ontario Canada

Society for Military History 2016 Annual Meeting

April 15-17, 2016 Museum Store Association Retail Conference & Expo 2016 Atlanta, Georgia
April 17-19, 2016 Museums - Core to Communities Tupper Lake & Lake Placid, NY

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.

April 19-20, 2016 MuseumNext Mansion House, Dublin
April 20, 2016 Museum Management Tune-Up Webinar

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.

April 20, 2016 NEMA WORKSHOP: When You’re Hot, You’re Hot, When You’re Not, You’re Not! Wheaton College, Norton, MA

Presented by the College and University Museums PAG

April 21-22, 2016 The Nature of Collections: How museums inspire our connection to the natural world Derby, UK

The Natural Sciences Collections Association will be holding their next annual conference & AGM at The Silk Mill and Derby Museum & Art Gallery.

April 22, 2016 NEMA Trendwatch 2016 Discussion Webinar
April 24-27, 2016 Inspired by the Sea: The Material Culture of Newport and Other Ports of Call Newport, RI

 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.

April 27, 2016 Getting Up Close and Personal with the Social Studies Frameworks & Inquiry Learning Hartford , CT

One of a three-part workshop series on Connecting with the New Social Studies Frameworks: What Historical Societies, Museums and Libraries Need to Know.

April 27, 2016 Supporting, Retaining and Recognizing Volunteers Webinar

Presented by the American Alliance of Museums.

April 30, 2016 Building and Preserving South County: The 31st Annual R.I. Statewide Historic Preservation Conference North Kingstown and Exeter, RI

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.

May 3, 2016 Arsenic and Old Lace: Controlling Hazardous Collection Materials Webinar

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.

May 4, 2016 Using Museum Collections to Teach: Reading Objects, Paintings and Documents Hartford , CT

One of a three-part workshop series on Connecting with the New Social Studies Frameworks: What Historical Societies, Museums and Libraries Need to Know.

May 4-7, 2016 InterActivity 2016: Collective Impact Stamford & Norwalk, CT

Association of Children's Museums conference.

May 9, 2016 NEMA Workshop: Dressing for Show Rough Point, Newport Restoration Foundation, Newport, RI

Presented by the Conservators PAG

May 9-21, 2016 Getty Leadership Institute 2016 | Executive Education Program Claremont, CA

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.

May 11, 2016 Using Museum Collections to Meet Teacher Needs: Developing School Programs that Succeed Middletown, CT

One of a three-part workshop series on Connecting with the New Social Studies Frameworks: What Historical Societies, Museums and Libraries Need to Know.

May 12, 2016 Educator Evening Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine

For more information, contact Matt Timme, Mirken Coordinator of Education and Public Programs, at mrtimme@colby.edu.

May 16, 2016 ACCESS: Steps Forward to Inclusion Providence, RI

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.

May 16-17, 2016 Fundraising & Project Management Grand Isle, VT

2016 Vermont Preservation Retreat.

May 20, 2016 Trustee-Director Forum San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Presented by the Museum Trustee Association.

May 20, 2016 Reinventing the Historic House Museum Webinar

 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.

May 24-25, 2016 Communities in Dialog: Models of Best Practices for Academic Museums, Galleries, and Collections Washington DC

Association of Academic Museums and Galleries annual conference Annual Conference.

May 26-29, 2016 Power, Influence and Responsibility Washington, DC

AAM 2016 Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo

May 27, 2016 Museums & Race 2016: Gathering for Transformation and Justice Washington, DC

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.

June 6, 2016 The Connecticut League of History Organizations Annual Conference Meriden, Connecticut

How-to, What's new, What's next? Exploring Our Collections

June 7, 2016 NEMA WORKSHOP: High Impact, Low Drama: Optimizing Your Board/CEO Team Hartford, CT

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.

June 8, 2016 NEMA Workshop: High Impact, Low Drama: Optimizing Your Board/CEO Team Providence, RI

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.

June 9, 2016 NEMA Workshop: High Impact, Low Drama: Optimizing Your Board/CEO Team Boston, MA

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.

June 12-16, 2016 Commemoration, Preservation, and Education: “The Things That We Do” Baton Rouge, LA

The Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums.

June 13, 2016 12th Annual Massachusetts History Conference College of Holy Cross, Worcester

Putting History on the Map Together Across the Commonwealth A Conference for Massachusetts History Organizations

June 15, 2016 Call For Papers Keene College, NH

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.

June 20-25, 2016 Green Museum – How to practice what we preach? Berlin, Germany

 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.

June 21, 2015 NEMA Workshop: High Impact, Low Drama: Optimizing Your Board/CEO Team Barre, VT

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.

June 22, 2016 NEMA Workshop: High Impact, Low Drama: Optimizing Your Board/CEO Team Moultonborough, NH

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.

June 23, 2016 NEMA Workshop: High Impact, Low Drama: Optimizing Your Board/CEO Team Brunswick, ME

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.

June 24-26, 2016 New England at Sea: Maritime Memory and Material Culture Deerfield, MA

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.

June 28-29, 2016 Libraries and Public Buildings Grand Isle, VT

2016 Vermont Preservation Retreats

June 29, 2016 NEMA Workshop: Everything AND the Kitchen Sink The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH

Presented by the Registrars PAG

July 3-9, 2016 ICOM Milano 2016 Milan, Italy
July 10-15, 2016 2016 Yale Public History Institute

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.

July 19-23, 2016 The Data Revolution Boston, MA

The Visitor Studies Association's conference.

July 27-30, 2016 The Association of Midwest Museums Annual Conference Minneapolis, MN

In partnership with the Minnesota Association of Museums

July 31 - August 4, 2016 Institute for Editing Historical Documents New Orleans, LA

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.

August 16, 2016 Historic House Call: Religion and Historic House Interpretation Webinar

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.

August 20-21, 2016 Flax and Linen: Following the Thread from Past to Present Historic Deerfield
September 14-17, 2016 The Spirit of Rebirth Detroit, MI

American Association for State and Local History and Michigan Museums Association Joint Annual Meeting

October 29 - November 19, 2016 Developing History Leaders @SHA Indianapolis, IN

Applications for the Class of 2016 are due May 16.

Call for Proposals

September 16-19, 2016 Urbanism, Inclusion, and Cultural Freedoms Cincinnati, OH

Ninth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum seeks proposals for its upcoming conference. Proposals are due June 16, 2016.

April 19-22, 2017 National Council on Public History Annual Meeting Indianapolis, IN

Proposals are due July 15, 2016.