The University of Victoria Cultural Resource Management Program is pleased
to offer "Museums at the Crossroads" with Stephen Weil, September 18-23.

This unique learning opportunity will:

* enhance your understanding of the evolution of the not-for-profit sector
and its important implications for museum governance, operations, and
professionalism
* Develop your planning, leadership, managerial, critical thinking and
visioning skills
* empower you to develop and apply tools for refining and redefining
institutional goals, structures, relationships with communities, and future
directions.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Many old ideas are bankrupt as museums redefine their relationships with
communities, funders, donors, academia and one another. This intensive
workshop probes the roots of this situation and challenges you to reexamine
the fundamental purposes of museums as a basis for refining institutional
goals, structures and future directions. Stephen Weil draws on his
distinguished background as a museum executive, writer, teacher, thinker and
consultant to facilitate your exploration of:
o improving peoples' lives as the core purpose of museums
o the fundamental role of community in defining the museum's 'bottom line'
o the impacts of shifting support
o lessons from business and other not-for-profit organizations
o issues of governance
o leadership and management
o measuring impacts
o defining success
o ethics and professionalism
You should bring professional experience in museums to this workshop, along
with a willingness to rethink some basic beliefs about their roles and
relationships.

Instructor: Stephen Weil is the Emeritus Senior Scholar with the Center for
Education and Museum Studies at the Smithsonian Institution. His background
in law, his experience as Deputy Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, and his extensive involvement as a consultant to a range
of professional agencies and activities, provide a foundation for his
reflections on the changing nature of museums in contemporary society. He is
an internationally renowned keynote speaker, and is the author of A Cabinet
of Curiosities: Inquiries into Museums and Their Prospects, Rethinking the
Museum, and Beauty and the Beasts: On Museums, Art, the Law, and the Market
and numerous journal articles.

Dates: September 18 - 23
Please register by: August 21

Fee: $589(Canadian funds, credit or non-credit -- approx. $400USD)
Travel: Victoria is easily accessible from Seattle and Vancouver
Accommodation: Program staff are pleased to provide information on local
B&B, hotel, and on-campus options

Comments from recent participants:
"I truly valued the inquiring nature of the course, the amazing experience
of the instructor, and his ability to stimulate discussion."

"I thoroughly enjoyed it -- it has really honed and enhanced my skills."

"The seminar was really great-one of the best museum programs I've ever
attended, and such a fine group to be with! Stephen is terrific in the
manner he organized and presented the week. I am truly pleased to have been
a participant."

"Well organized, stimulating topics, excellent exercise and team building,
tremendous enhancement to professional knowledge and skills."

"I valued the professionalism & inspiration of the presenter. Well
organised, the interaction with other participants is very valuable."

"Highly recommended."

For more information, please contact:

Brenda Weatherston
Program Coordinator
Cultural Resource Management Program
Continuing Studies, University of Victoria
PO Box 3030 STN CSC
Victoria, BC Canada V8W 3N6
Tel: 250 721-6119
Fax: 250 721-8774
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