NEMA | Annual Conference Sessions

Conference-At-A-Glance

Wednesday

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.
Welcome Coffee
Hosted by Northern Artery

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions
• Are You Ready to Launch a Campaign?
• Classroom Curators: Fostering Links Between Schools and Museums
• The Museum Trustee Association’s Trustee Workshop
• Online Collection Cataloging
• Thinking Through Art: Building Critical Thinking Skills Through a Multiple-Visit Art Museum Program
• Working from the Inside Out: Maintaining Our Museums as Cornerstones of the Community

10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
OPENING SESSION:
What Makes the Museum: It Isn't As Easy As It Sounds

12:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Opening Luncheon

12:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Directors & Trustees Lunch Program
Hosted by Henderson Phillips Fine Arts Insurance

1:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Afternoon Off-Site Program
• Designing School Programs for a Changing Exhibits Gallery: Challenges and Rewards at the Maine Historical Society

1:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Double Session
• Volunteer Management 101: Volunteer Management 201

1:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
• Avoiding a Cost Catastrophe: Practical Tools to Guide Your Building Project
• Collecting Viewpoints: A New Museum Mission
• Making your Museum Work with IMLS Federal Grants
• The New Academic Museum: Traveling Exhibitions, Unpacking the Collection and Presenting Contemporary Art
• Stories Along the Trail: Interpretation for the Whole Site

3:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
Hosted by Cardinal Principles of Governance

3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
• Engaging Communities through Collaborations
• Making a Museum
• Managing Change: Is Your Board Really On Board?
• Off-Site Collection Storage: When Does it Make Sense?
• Raising the Questions: A New Look at Exhibit Design Basics for the Small Museum
• Volunteer Management 201
• Web-Based Strategies for Your Organization

5:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
Exhibit Hall Opening Reception
Hosted by Harvard University Extension School/Master of Liberal Arts in Museum Studies

EVENING EVENTS

Thursday

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

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

9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Morning Off-Site Sessions
• Historic Restoration Tour – Victoria Mansion
• Storing the Unstorable – Portland Museum of Art

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions
• A Case for Understanding
• Disaster Planning
• More Than a Museum: Building an Integrated Brand Across the Entire Organization
• Museums and Colleges Working Together to Strengthen Community
• New Solutions for Historic Houses
• The Re-Accreditation Process: Is It Worth Doing Again?
• Reducing Slip, Trip, and Fall Accidents

10:00 a.m.
Exhibit Hall Opens

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
• Clinic for Independent Museum Professionals
• Historic House Museums Cope with the Future
• Museum Education Marketplace
• Museum Lending to the Non-Museum World
• Open to Interpretation: Making Collections More Accessible to a Broad Public
• Package It and They Will Come: The Power of Regional Partnerships
• The Quest for the North Pole: How a Small Museum Can Shape a New History

12:45 p.m. – 2:20 p.m.
Lunchtime Professional Affinity Group Sessions
• Administration, Facilities & Services
• Children’s Museums (Off-Site)
• College & University Museums
• Curators (Off-Site)
• Education and HR & Volunteer Management
• Exhibitions
• Independent Museum Professionals
• Membership, Development, PR & Marketing
• Museum Directors' Discussion
• Registrars

2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Exhibit Hall Closing Reception and Raffle Prize Drawing

3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
• Assassination Vacation: Book Discussion for Educators at Historic Sites
• Breathing New Life into History Museums
• Deterioration and Preservation of Photographs
• How to Develop a Technology Plan
• Maintenance Issues for Small House Museums: Some Alternatives to Consider
• Museums Reinterpreted: Digital Adventures in New Technology
• Opening Your Doors to Families and Building Institutional Buy-In

4:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Newcomers Reception
Hosted by Tufts University Museum Studies Program

EVENING EVENTS

Friday

9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Registration Open

8:45 a.m – 12:15 a.m.
Morning Off-Site Sessions
• Involving Community in Developing Exhibits – Children's Museum of Maine
• Wayfinding Workshop: Improving Your Institution’s “Visitability” – Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad and Museum

9:00 a.m – 10:30 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions
• Beyond "George Washington Slept Here": New History Trails for Museum Educational Outreach and Community Partnerships
• Make Your Museum Interactive!
• My Ad is Online but Only 3 Unqualified People Applied! New Realities of Recruiting Professionals
• New Pathways for Museum-Based Learning: Case Studies from the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center
• Planned Gifts—Are You Getting Your Fair Share?
• So You Have All This “Stuff”- Now What? Writing a Collections Policy
• When a House is Not a Home

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Coffee Break

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
• Breaking Down Walls
• Collaboration in the Museum Community: The Portland History Docent Program
• The Future of Collecting the Past
• Low-Tech Environmental Control: What’s Real, What’s Fantasy, What’s Achievable
• Museums Online: Limited Galleries, Unlimited Audience
• Something Old is New Again

12:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Closing Luncheon and Annual Meeting