NEMA | Annual Conference Sessions

Conference-At-A-Glance

WEDNESDAY

8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Registration Open

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Welcome Coffee
Hosted by Acadia Insurance

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions
• Beyond Board Orientation: Inspiring and Sustaining Trustees
• The Evolution of a Museum Within Its Community
• Theme Conversation: Mary Alexander Museums in Motion: A Look at Current Museum Practices Around the World
• Still Flies in the Buttermilk? The Struggle for Diversity in Museums
• Users Versus Visitors: How Digital Technologies Have Activated the Museum

10:45 a.m. – 11:45 p.m.
OPENING SESSION:
Cultural Institutions as Democratic Forums
Keynote Speaker: Curt Columbus, Artistic Director, Trinity Repertory Company

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Opening Luncheon

12:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Directors & Trustees Lunch Program
A Conversation with William U. Eiland, Director of the Georgia Museum of Art

1:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Afternoon Off-Site Program
• Sustainable Tourism: 22 Years of Building Community in the Blackstone Valley: Slater Mill

1:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
• Get to Know Your Independent Museum Colleagues Through "Speed Dating"
• Junior Curators: A Museum School Collaboration
• Navigating Through the Newly Revised AAM "General Facility Report"
• On Your Toes! Exploring New Partnership Opportunities
• Power in Numbers—Driving Tourism Traffic and Building Community
• What A Mess! Scrapbook Conservation 101

3:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Coffee Break

3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
• IMLS Grant Opportunities for Your Museum
• Making History: Reconsidering the Role of Museums in Current Events and Affairs
• Making Museum Collections Accessible: An Important Goal of Museums in Reaching Out
• One More and Then...Drinking in Museums
• Placing a Museum at the Center of a Community When It Doesn't Seem Possible
• Seeing What I Feel: Opening Museums to People Who are Blind or Have Low Vision
• Stepping onto a New Path
• Thinking of Creating a Museum from Scratch?

5:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
Newcomers Reception
Hosted by Tufts University Museum Studies Program

EVENING IN PROVIDENCE

THURSDAY

8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Registration Open

8:00 a.m.
Exhibit Hall Opens

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
IMP PAG Meeting

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Wake-Up Coffee
Hosted by Markel Insurance Company

8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Morning Off-Site Session
• The Care and Interpretation of Art in Historic Houses: Newport Art Museum and Rosecliff

8:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Morning Off-Site Session
• Putting Play First: Providence Children's Museum

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions
• A Gathering Place for Freedom
• A Perfect Storm: The Impact of NCLB and Transportation Costs on School Visits to Museums
• Are They Being Served? (NEW SESSION)
• Don't Let the Door Hit You… How to Renovate Without Shutting Out Your Museum's Patrons
• The Little Museums That Could! (and Did!)
• Sustaining Our Heritage: Collaborative Historical Records Projects and the Local Museum
• Swing Your Partner: Rejuvenate Your Museum Through Youth Outreach (rescheduled for Friday, November 14, 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.)
• When Disaster Strikes: Rising from the Ashes

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
Hosted by Huntington T. Block Insurance Agency, Inc.

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
• A Modest Proposal: The Carter Collections Center at Strawbery Banke Museum
• The Audience-Focused Exhibit
• Community Connections—Parents are Customers Too!
• How Do I Get an Intern (When They All Want to Go to the MFA)?
• Mistakes, Blunders and Near Misses: What I Learned the Hard Way
• Museum Education Marketplace
• The New Partnership: Museum Collaborations with the Nonprofit, Corporate & Public Sectors

12:45 p.m. – 2:20 p.m.
Lunchtime Professional Affinity Group Sessions
• Administration, Facilities & Services PAG
• Children's Museums PAG (off-site)
• Curators PAG
• Education PAG with HR & Volunteer Management PAG
• Exhibitions PAG
• Library & Archives PAG
• Membership, Development, Public Relations & Marketing PAG
• Registrars PAG

2:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Afternoon Off-Site Session
• Museum Metamorphosis: Building on Strengths, Creating New Ties : Museum of Natural History and Planetarium

2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
• The Connected Classroom: Digital Technology in Art Museum Education for the School Audience
• Exhibitions: Commemorative or Interpretative
• Theme Conversation: Janet Rice Elman Multiple Roles for Museums in Today's Communities
• Oral History for Museums
• The Road to Green: Tales of Two Museums
• Woven in Time: Textile Care

4:45 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
Exhibit Hall Reception
Hosted by Harvard University Extension School Master of Liberal Arts in Museum Studies

EVENING EVENTS
• An Evening in Newport: Rought Point and the Newport Art Museum
• An Evening at Slater Mill
• Directors and Trustees Dinner at the Culinary Arts Museum

FRIDAY

8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Registration Open

8:00 a.m.
Exhibit Hall Opens

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Wake-up Coffee

8:45 a.m – 12:15 a.m.
Morning Off-Site Session
• The Breakers Storage Tour

9:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Morning Off-Site Session
• Exhibition Critique: Culinary Arts Museum

8:45 a.m – 10:15 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions
• Choosing the Right Path for Historic Sites
• Connecticut Museum Quest: A Visitor's View
• Digital Planning for Museums
• Please Touch: Senses and the Museum Experience
• Struggling with Change: Old Sturbridge Village's Recent Travails
• Trends in Philanthropy in Today's Economy

10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

10:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
• A Conversation: Taking the Pulse of Museums in New England
• College, Community, Coursework: The Challenges and Opportunities of Student-Curated Exhibitions
• Designing Your Insurance Program: An Insurance Handbook
• Finding the Right Balance: A Workshop on Conceptual Planning for Museums
• Get Them In Your Door!
• Legacy Giving Building Blocks: Building the Infrastructure for a Donor-Centered Legacy Giving Program
• The Pitter Patter of Little Feet (CANCELLED)
• Swing Your Partner: Rejuvenate Your Museum Through Youth Outreach (rescheduled from Thursday, November 13, 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.)

12:15 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Exhibit Hall Closing Reception and Raffle Prize Drawing

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Annual Meeting Luncheon

2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
• Theme Conversation: Dorothy Chen-Courtin The Landscape of the Future Now
• Meet the Funders!
• Plays Well With Others: A Case Study of Effective Collaborations