Help Wanted!
The NEMA staff is looking for a one-day a week (7 hours) administrative assistant to help in our Arlington, MA, office. You will be joining us in time to help with our upcoming 100th anniversary conference in Stamford, CT. We are anticipating over 900 attendees. We may be a small staff but we are able to accomplish a lot. Click here for complete details.
Celebrating 100+ Years of History Featuring YOU!
NEMA's 100th year approaches! We're celebrating not just NEMA's history, but the incredible museums and museum professionals in New England in the last hundred years and more. We'd like you to tell us about yourself and your institutions, to share through a 100th anniversary timeline exhibit at this year's NEMA conference, online features, a special anniversary issue of New England Museums Now, and more. All New England museums and museum people are invited!
To submit your memories and milestones, use the links below between now and April 20, 2018:
Individual Story Collector
Institutional Story Collector
2018 Conference Updates
Planning for the 100th Annual NEMA Conference is well underway, so make sure you save the date: November 7 – 9 at the Hilton Stamford Hotel and Executive Meeting Center in Stamford, CT. Registration will open late August.
Our keynote session on November 7 is shaping up to be a memorable and meaningful tribute to NEMA and the field, and you are invited to help us commemorate the moment. You’ll hear short reflections from Nina Zannieri of the Paul Revere Memorial Association on “The Future of History;” Christina Turner of the New Bedford Whaling Museum speaking on “Diversity, Youth, and Museums;” Brian Cofrancesco of Connecticut’s Old State House examining “Museums & Civic Dialogue;” and Brooke DiGiovanni Evans of the MFA/Boston on “Art as Healing.” Then you’ll experience a multimedia performance from artist, weightlifter, and emerging museum professional Kledia Spiro as she shares her journey from war-torn Albania to the Fitchburg Art Museum and how the museum field can lift spirits everywhere. Don’t miss it!
Collections Service Project
On Tuesday, November 6, 2018 NEMA’s Registrars and Collections Care Specialists (RACCS) and Conservators PAGs will be holding its inaugural Collections Service Project in Stamford, CT. The Collections Service Project is held the day before the NEMA Annual Meeting near the conference location. It is an opportunity for collections care professionals to share with local museums our skills and willingness to aid with collections projects. Interested in volunteering for the Collections Care Project? Click here to submit your information. Questions? Contact NEMA's Registrars & Collection Care Specialists (RACCS) PAG Co-Chair, Meredith Vasta, Collection Steward, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, at mvasta@fas.harvard.edu or 860-303-5564.
Excellence Awards
NEMA is proud to honor our colleagues' extraordinary effort and commitment to the New England museum community. Help us recognize their achievements by nominating someone you admire for the 2018 NEMA Excellence Awards. Nominations for an Excellence Award - for yourself or someone you know - are due August 24. Award winners will be recognized at the NEMA Annual Meeting on November 11 at the Hilton Stamford Hotel in Stamford, CT. For more information, click here.
NEMAppeal 2018
Thank you to everyone who participated in NEMAppeal 2018. As of July 12, we have raised $6,555. This will allow us to continue our work on behalf of the New England museum field and provide scholarships to our 2018 conference in Stamford, CT, which will encourage the participation of diverse individuals and those new to the field or to NEMA.
PAG Workshops - Thank You
NEMA wishes to take this opportunity to thank our Professional Affinity Group Chairs for an exceptional spring and summer workshop series. This year the PAG chairs planned and conducted twelve workshops, scheduled between May 17 and September 7. In addition to recognizing our PAG chairs, NEMA would like to thank the many institutional members that graciously offered their facilities as sites for the workshops, bringing museum professionals together for networking and professional development.
Three PAGs now have Facebook groups! Join the Registrars & Collection Care Specialists (RACCS), Library & Archives, and the Development, Marketing, PR, Membership PAGs online. Don’t forget to follow the NEMA Young and Emerging Professionals page.
Are you interested in being a PAG Chair? We are currently looking for chairs for the Curators, College and University Museums, Exhibitions, and Natural History\Science PAGs. Contact Meg Winikates at meg.winikates@nemanet.org for complete details.
We would like to thank the following PAG Chairs that are stepping down for their service to NEMA and the field: Jan Crocker and Richard Kissel.
Publication Award Winners
NEMA is pleased to announce the winners of this year's annual Publication Awards. Judging was especially challenging and exciting this year, with 144 entries from 51 museums in 11 categories. The Publication Awards honor excellence in design, publication, and communication in the world of print and digital museum publishing. Click here to read about the judging.
Call for Articles
Have a great idea for an article for New England Museums Now? Museums Now is the professional journal for the voices of museum professionals across the geography, genres, and job descriptions present in our field, and we want your voice to be represented! Submissions for articles are accepted on a rolling basis. Though Museums Now issues each focus on a particular theme relevant to our field, we welcome articles on all museum topics. Your submission is not required to fit a theme for an upcoming issue. For complete details about submitting an article, click here.
NEMA/QM2 Executive Roundtables
In 2016, NEMA teamed up with Mary Case of QM2 to begin an executive roundtable inviting leaders of museums with annual budgets between $800,000 and $1.4 million. The roundtable is a confidential peer-learning group that improves the institution's long-term sustainability and the director's life. If you'd like to explore participation, please contact Mary Case, marycase@qm2.org.